USEFUL AT WORK:
1. Thank you. We're all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view.
2. The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.
3. I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce.
4. Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
5. I have plenty of talent and vision. I just don't care.
6. I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid.
7. What am I? Flypaper for freaks !?
8. I'm not being rude. You're just insignificant.
9. I'm already visualizing the duct tape over your mouth.
10. I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you.
11. It's a thankless job, but I've got a lot of Karma to burn off.
12. Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.
13. No, my powers can only be used for good.
14. How about never? Is never good for you ?
15. I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to worship me.
16. You sound reasonable... Time to up my medication.
17. I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.
18. I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message...
19. I don't work here. I'm a consultant.
20. Who me? I just wander from room to room.
21. My toys! My toys! I can't do this job without my toys!
22. It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy.
23. At least I have a positive attitude about my destructive habits.
24. You are validating my inherent mistrust of strangers.
25. I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public.
26. Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject.
Lisa Ochenduszko "kajira" Purring kitty - 14 years, 11 months, 21 days ago

Mother's Quotes:

"I am not a perfect mother and I will never be.
You are not a perfect daughter and you will never be.
But put us together and we will be the best mother and daughter we would ever be.”
- Zoraida Pesante

"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new."
- Rajneesh

"A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. "
- Washington Irving

"A mother is someone who dreams great dreams for you, but then she lets you chase the dreams you have for yourself and loves you just the same."
- Author Unknown

“You’re not famous until my mother has heard of you.”
- Jay Leno

“The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.”
- Sydney J. Harris

"Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together."
- Pearl S. Buck

"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child."
- Sophia Loren

"Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of life."
- Maureen Hawkins

"You don't appreciate your mother until you’re a mother yourself."
- Catherine Pulsifer

“Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.”
- Barbara Ehrenreich

"Nothing else will ever make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, as motherhood."
- Elia Parsons

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity; it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”
- Agatha Christie

“No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.”
- Florida Scott-Maxwell


"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there." Robert Browning

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”
- Washington Irving

“My mother's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.”
- Buddy Hackett

“A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.”
- Tenneva Jordan

“The good mother, the wise mother . . . is more important to the community than even the ablest man; her career is more worthy of honor and is more useful to the community than the career of any man, no matter how successful.”
- Theodore Roosevelt

“So when the great word ‘Mother!’ rang once more,
I saw at last its meaning and its place;
Not the blind passion of the brooding past,
But Mother -- the World's Mother – come at last,
To love as she had never loved before –
To feed and guard and teach the human race.”
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Lisa Ochenduszko "kajira" Purring kitty - 14 years, 11 months, 24 days ago

In Perfect Contradiction
Tried but couldn’t do it,
Quit but couldn’t stop,
Lied but felt regret,
Fought but lost it all.

Died but breathed deeply,
Lived but couldn’t breathe.
Cried the laughter feeling,
Laughed at the pain in me.

Strong, but broken easily,
Weak but strong to stand.
A fool for my curiosity,
Smart enough to understand.

Trembled but wasn’t cold,
Chilled but I was hot.
Beaten when I was winning,
Lost when I fought.

Denied when I wanted,
Wanted without heed.
Needed but couldn’t have it,
Had what I didn’t need.

Bled but wasn’t cut,
Scars that were healed.
Wounds I suffered,
When I couldn’t feel.

Loved when already broken,
Hated when needing love.
Forgotten when lonely,
Lonely when thought of.

Understood when confused,
Confused to cry.
Voiceless speaking
Blind seeing eyes.

Tortured moments,
Moments to short.
Hurt the healing,
The healing hurt.

Paused but kept going,
Gone but here.
Contradiction perfect,
Perfection unclear.

-Angel
Lisa Ochenduszko "kajira" Purring kitty - 15 years, 1 month, 3 days ago

Blessed Or The Damned
Of darker days and disenchantment, when fantasy last roamed free
Among the world of mere mortals, living out their mortality.
Upon towers capped by spires tall, intricate, ornate design,
Curved upon arched, winged gargoyles, guardians of the night.

Of churches crumbling to the dust, like skeletons left to decay,
Their chapels capped by stone made cross, that somehow does remain.
Where street lined filth is easily maneuvered, by turning away your eyes,
And that includes those victim fallen, into the preying kind.

The misty clouds that veil the eyes, and make the way more dense,
Lighted by the halo of flames, lashing out at the last defense.
Darkened ways that lead unto a more dangerous sort of path,
Without the fragrant scent of life, to linger here but death.

Disenchantment, it is known for no fairy tale might prevail,
Along the streets of reality, where belief has all but failed,
Each corridor a one way street, with flanking doors to side,
Each unlocked, slightly ajar or pulled on and opened wide.

Invitingly or otherwise, I’ll not lay claim to know,
But thus this pass leads the way to where we want to go.
To fantasy, reality, your enchantments true desires,
Or merely blackened by our life despite our untold fires.

Burning brightly within our breasts, the need to just hold,
A fantasy of great proportions, the one we only own.
Does such fantasy really exist, enchantment linger in way,
Or does the path lead but the blind further to go astray?

I question now the firm grasp mind, which reality stands aground,
No quakes of tumbled excitement, to shatter the mass abound.
But to firmly stand embedded, to root upon this land,
Disenchantment for reality, blessed or the damned…

-Angel
Lisa Ochenduszko "kajira" Purring kitty - 15 years, 1 month, 3 days ago

Love Hath

I hear the beating, eractic rise,
of heart to rhythm, hypnotized.
A fearful drumming, I must dispise,
for love hath left me weak..

I know the loss, the lonliness,
felt it's pounding in my chest.
The fear, the fear, I do detest,
for love hath naught for me..

Hearts all beat, yet made of glass,
they crumble and fall, with a breath.
Lost and fallen, to some repass..
for love hath gone away..

My aching is nothing, I can't abide,
it's something buried deep inside.
Oh but how pain does reside,
for a love that's lost this day..

But love has ears, it knows the sound,
for those of fallen hearts to ground.
Lost loves and lovers, on rebound,
for love hath knowledge of pain..

Love can speak, it's tongue is sharp,
it plays and sings, but won't depart.
Lingering always, in the lonliest hearts,
for love hath no loss to gain...

Angel
Lisa Ochenduszko "kajira" Purring kitty - 15 years, 1 month, 3 days ago