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She would follow her father over the horizon and down the other side, where the world lay hidden.

Alan Brennert

She would follow her father over the horizon and down the other side, where the world lay hidden.

Tags: horizon, other side, world

Old Korean adage, Even jade has flaws. Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.

Alan Brennert

Old Korean adage, Even jade has flaws. Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.

Tags: flaws, jade, korean, life, perfection, perfection seeking

About Author
Alan Brennert (born May 30, 1954) is an American author, television producer, and screenwriter. Brennert has lived in Southern California since 1973 and completed graduate work in screenwriting at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Marveled at how two souls - two completely different species - could make each other so happy. If you were kind to animals, they repaid that kindness a thousandfold. People disappointed; animals never...

Alan Brennert

Marveled at how two souls - two completely different species - could make each other so happy. If you were kind to animals, they repaid that kindness a thousandfold. People disappointed; animals never...

Tags: animals, animals love, cats, companions, dogs

Carve the peg by looking at the hole.' Eddie looked at me blankly and I explained, 'An old Korean saying. It means, Do things to fit the circumstances.

Alan Brennert

Carve the peg by looking at the hole.' Eddie looked at me blankly and I explained, 'An old Korean saying. It means, Do things to fit the circumstances.

Tags: korean saying, square peg, uniqueness of individual

It slowly dawned on the volunteers that they were not patients but subjects; separated from their friends and community in Kalaupapa, they felt like outcasts among outcasts.

Alan Brennert

It slowly dawned on the volunteers that they were not patients but subjects; separated from their friends and community in Kalaupapa, they felt like outcasts among outcasts.

It is enough for me to know that I left something of beauty behind and that it has thrived. I am content.

Alan Brennert

It is enough for me to know that I left something of beauty behind and that it has thrived. I am content.

Tags: life

Good-for-nothing rascal, where you been the last eight months? And she kissed him with a ferocity that quite belied her words.

Alan Brennert

Good-for-nothing rascal, where you been the last eight months? And she kissed him with a ferocity that quite belied her words.

God didn’t give man wings; He gave him the brain and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up. I’ve come t...

Alan Brennert

God didn’t give man wings; He gave him the brain and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up. I’ve come t...

This was life, and if some things were kapu, others weren’t; she had to stop regretting the ones that were and start enjoying the ones that were not.

Alan Brennert

This was life, and if some things were kapu, others weren’t; she had to stop regretting the ones that were and start enjoying the ones that were not.

By now the streets of Kalaupapa were filled with people racing for high ground - sick people cryingTsunami! as nature played yet another mean trick on them, God's last best joke at their expense. It w...

Alan Brennert

By now the streets of Kalaupapa were filled with people racing for high ground - sick people cryingTsunami! as nature played yet another mean trick on them, God's last best joke at their expense. It w...

I liked the fact that the happiest night of my life was followed by a day like any other. It seemed to say that such happiness, so long denied, was now a part of my everyday life.

Alan Brennert

I liked the fact that the happiest night of my life was followed by a day like any other. It seemed to say that such happiness, so long denied, was now a part of my everyday life.

Tags: love, marriage

Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well?

Alan Brennert

Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well?

Tags: malady, suicide

There might be more to the universe than any one religion could explain.

Alan Brennert

There might be more to the universe than any one religion could explain.

Kindness is scarce in the world

Alan Brennert

Kindness is scarce in the world

But no - I was his wife, and it was my duty to share his pain as I shared his success. I walked out the front door and joined him on the sidewalk, slipping my hand into his like a thread into a needle...

Alan Brennert

But no - I was his wife, and it was my duty to share his pain as I shared his success. I walked out the front door and joined him on the sidewalk, slipping my hand into his like a thread into a needle...

Tags: marriage

An aching vacuum inside her sucking the air from her lungs. She hung her head and wept fiercely, the emptiness inside her growing larger not smaller; she felt as though it would grow so large it would...

Alan Brennert

An aching vacuum inside her sucking the air from her lungs. She hung her head and wept fiercely, the emptiness inside her growing larger not smaller; she felt as though it would grow so large it would...

Tags: emptiness, sea, suffocate

She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more

Alan Brennert

She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more

Tags: earth, lost, sleep, suicide

Unemployment in America became, almost overnight, a thing of the past as the Federal government pumped billions of dollars into defense.

Alan Brennert

Unemployment in America became, almost overnight, a thing of the past as the Federal government pumped billions of dollars into defense.

Summer in Honolulu brings the sweet smell of mangoes, guava, and passionfruit, ripe for picking; it arbors the streets with the fiery red umbrellas of poincianta trees and decorates the sidewalks with...

Alan Brennert

Summer in Honolulu brings the sweet smell of mangoes, guava, and passionfruit, ripe for picking; it arbors the streets with the fiery red umbrellas of poincianta trees and decorates the sidewalks with...

Tags: honolulu, summer, tropical paradise

Ruth marveled at how two souls— two completely different species— could make each other so happy. If you were kind to animals, they repaid that kindness a thousandfold.

Alan Brennert

Ruth marveled at how two souls— two completely different species— could make each other so happy. If you were kind to animals, they repaid that kindness a thousandfold.

Tags: kindness