"The Hours"

Clarissa Vaughn: I don't know what's happening to me. I seem to be unraveling

My dear friends....pls pardon my slightly anti-social tendencies/mood swings these days.
(anyway, it's just a phase ok? I'll come out and play as usual once this is all dealt with. :))
You've probably noticed the writing frenzy/rampage on this blog too. haha! I've been in a highly reflective mood.....and I've been having this compulsive need to read, write, collect quotes, observe, dissect and assemble. Yeah...i have been unraveling....and it's beautiful! :)

It's actually been quite exhilarating and stimulating....re-discovering the joys of writing, the delicate, sublime yet empowering experience of crafting a poem/song.
Ahhh....my love affair with words, words, words. *swoon*.
It's continues to amaze me how mere words strung together, even in a feeble phrase, can articulate, reflect, resonate so powerfully.....

But as Audrey as said, and I quote her here: "while words are beautiful, there is a higher order of meaning, and meaning is what we exist for."

On a similar train of thought, I've just been so captivated with these quotes from "The Hours". It is such a thought-provoking, lyrical and moving film. A brilliant tapestry of human relationships and emotions. As the title of the book by Michael Cunningham/film suggests.....how we live a day, can be reflective of how we live our entire life. Our moments, our hours are more significant than we often realize....for even small moments, little actions/choices can bring great revelations, or cause drastic change to the rest of our lives.

It's all so intriguing!! I love it when a piece of art becomes transformative to one's attitude to life/ world-view!

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Quotes from "The Hours"
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Clarissa Vaughan: Just to let you know I am making the crab thing. Not that I imagine it makes any difference to you.
Richard Brown: Of course it makes a difference. I love the crab thing.

Clarissa Vaughan: I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.

Virginia Woolf: Dear Leonard. To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard, always the years between us, always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.

Virigina Woolf: You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

Virginia Woolf: A woman's whole life in a single day. Just one day. And in that day her whole life