Before reaching Grassy Butte, though, Dad spied a farmhouse with two pumps in the drive and a red-and-white sign out front saying DALE'S OIL COMPANY. Another sign said CLOSED, but a light was on in the house and Dad pulled in, saying, "I believe we might prevail on Dale. What do you think?"
"Prevail on Dale," I repeated to Swede.
"To make a sale," she added.
"And if we fail, we'll whale on Dale--"
"Till he needs braille!"
"Will you guys desist?" Dad asked.
Mots clés kids rhyme gas braille
You are no failure, on a river. The water moves regardless - for all it cares, you might be a minnow or a tadpole, a turtle on a beavered log. You might be nothing at all.
Leif EngerWhy is it our failures only show us more clearly the people we are failing?
Leif EngerMots clés failure
Love is a strange fact - it hopes all things, believes all things, endures all things. It makes no sense at all.
Leif EngerSometimes it seems every woman I meet is more than a match for me.
Leif EngerBe careful whom you choose to hate.
The small and the vulnerable own a protection great enough, if you could but see it, to melt you into jelly.
Beware those who reside beneath the shadow of the Wings.
We and the world, my children, will always be at war.
Retreat is impossible.
Arm yourselves.
I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.
Leif EngerMots clés october
So thoughtlessly we sling on our destinies.
Leif EngerYou can’t kill history. You can’t shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that—if it’s going to die, it has to die on its own
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