"Being tender and open is beautiful. As a woman, I feel continually shhh'ed. Too sensitive, too mushy, too wishy washy. Blah Blah. Don't let someone steal your tenderness. Don't allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart. Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to be truly affected by things. Whether it's a song, a stranger, a mountain, a raindrop, a tea kettle, an article, a sentence, a footstep, feel it all- look around you. All of this is for you. Take it and give gratitude. Give it and feel love."

-Zooey Deschanel

"We live our lives, do whatever we want, and then we sleep- it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jumped out of their windows or drown themselves or take pills; more die by accidents; and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some disease or, if we are very fortunate, by time itself. There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything that we've ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they know) knows these hours will be inevitably followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more."

-Micheal Cummingham, The Hours

Just a couple of things I'll like to share while I'm still waiting patiently for P's grand arrival. Hope they relate to you as much as they do to me.