Most of the entries in this journal are friends-only. Feel free to mark me as a friend, but I probably won't reciprocate unless I know you. Sorry, it's nothing personal!
Time is something which defies spring and winter, birth and decay, the good and the bad, indifferently. Something changeless and joyous and absolutely indestructible...What if you had never seen the sea before? What if the only thing you'd ever seen was a child's picture--blue crayon, choppy waves? Would you know the real sea if you only saw the picture? Would you be able to recognize the real thing even if you saw it? --Donna Tartt, The Secret History