Yes, I should be studying Micro but am most definitely procrastinating. Although I would love to be of the creative mind, I am not. I do appreciate thoughts when I read them though.

from William Carlos Williams' story Mind and Body

Yes, exactly. It is their religion. So I said to myself, to keep that for him I won't ask him to join my church but I will join his. He has that and his nursing and it makes him happy. If I take that away what could I give him in return? He would be lost. When I was talking to the Jesuit, who came to teach me what the church meant, I told him I could not believe that. He said, I should. I asked him, Do you? But he didn't answer me.

And I'm a little superstitious too, she went on. When I was in the hospital I stopped breathing/ I said to myself, Why go on anymore? Next time my breath stops I will not breathe again and then it will be done. I didn't care. The asked me where I wanted to be sent. At first I didn't know what they meant. Then I caught it. They meant after I was dead. So I gave them all the details.