September 2010
18 posts
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are...”
– Sylvia Plath (via dareensucks)
“So, we’re thinking about boys and girls and what they read. The assumption, as I...”
– Maureen Johnson Books » Blog Archive » SELL THE GIRLS
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I pretty much spent a sizable part of June eating an Easter egg for lunch at least once a week.
I can’t decide whether that’s a FML or a total win, but my gut is that it’s a telling indicator about my life at that time. Hence the vows about better, less junky living in September…
I’ve always been a daydreamer, not so much a writer. It’s a struggle to put words down. I tend to go blank and stare with nothing to say, fingers hovering over the keyboard. The daydreaming is easy, making sense and words of it is not.
“Whatever a man might do, whatever misery or heartache your children might give...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
Survival poem #17 | Marty McConnell
because this is what you do. get up. blame the liquor for the heaviness. call in late to work. go to the couch because the bed is too empty. watch people scream about love on Jerry Springer. count the ways it could be worse. it could be last week when the missing got so big you wrote him a letter and sent it. it could be yesterday, no work to go to, whole day looming. it could be last...
One Art | Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring...
WatchSylvie Guillem documentary (pt 1)
swissmiss | Fluffy McCloud →
I found this mesmerising, great mix of media
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of...”
“Accept everything about yourself—I mean everything, you are you and that is the...”
– Clark Moustakas (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
August 2010
29 posts
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
– Edmund Burke | (via Star of the Sea) (via quote-book)