October 26, 2010

  • "dear God," she prayed...

    "...let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.

    Let me be gay; let me be sad.

    Let me be cold; let me be warm.

    Let me be hungry...have too much to eat.

    Let me be ragged or well dressed.

    Let me be sincere - be deceitful.

    Let me be truthful; let me be a liar.

    Let me be honorable and let me sin.

    Only let me be something every blessed minute.

    And when I sleep, let me dream all the time

    so that not one little piece of living is ever lost." 

    - Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)