“The thing is to free one’s self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.” – Virginia Woolf  

“Learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing.” – Pete Seeger   SATURDAY, JANUARY 24

“When I was 14, I learned what transgender meant and cried of happiness.” – Leelah Alcorn, 17 years   Trevor

“I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled.” – Paula Poundstone   Winter break

“I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.” – John

“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.” – Anne Frank   Family Hanukkah event

“The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.” – Martin Van Buren, eighth president