Quote for the day

Young love is about wanting to be happy. Old love is about wanting someone else to be happy.

--Mary Pipher, in a New York Times article about the supportive spouses of Alzheimer's patients who fall in love with fellow nursing home residents

(That sounds really tabloid-ish. It's actually a really sad article. Apparently Sandra Day O'Connor's husband met someone at his nursing home, and his wife is taking it in stride because she's happy to see him happy. Alice Munro has a wonderful short story about a similar situation that was made into a movie recently. Haven't seen the movie yet [although I heard it was excellent], but highly recommend the story, and anything else of Munro's.)

Actually, the first part of Pipher's quote is pretty good too:

There’s a difference between love as it is presented in movies and music as this jazzy sexy thing that involves bikini underwear and what love actually turns out to be. The really interesting script isn’t that people like to have sex. The really interesting script is what people are willing to put up with.