Thursday, September 19, 2013

Personal Quote #61

"Your own life is not supposed to feel so very complicated. If you find it continuing to do so, you have only yourself to blame."
Dennis Sylvester Hurd (1959- )

2012_11_27
Since when have my quotes started to sound like they belong
in a fortune cookie? In this photo, we were out for a simple
dinner of parotta in Jaffna, Sri Lanka last November.

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