What's supremely grand

and mildly unexpected..

I was sifting through my journals of 12, 14, 17 years old, and in my most aged, unassuming blue leather-bound I have quotes appreciated at the tender age of 13. In black sharpie, passionately engraved more so than written on the 8.5x11 was a quote by Joan Baez. THE Joan Baez. Before I understood what a hippie was or rocked out to hendrix, probably even before I had any taste for music aside from ariel's part of your world solo, I was quoting the legendary hippie-goddess. Emphatically, emotionally, and almost like I created the phrase myself rests-

"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now"
- 5/13/2000,

Now, more than ever, would I learn volumes from my 13 year old self.