February 2012
1 post
January 2012
15 posts
“What’s the worst thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now. You’re...”
– Full frontal feminism: a young women’s guide to why feminism matters
By Jessica Valenti
“be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.”
– Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
“The conversation between your fingers and someone else’s skin; this is the most...”
– I Wrote This For You
fleetfoxessing:
“Little Bit” by Lykke Li
“Tears transformed his face, the fall was almost limitless. My father would walk...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Tree of Codes
Malandragem: 1/52 →
II. Graduation day the sun shines like it knows about suffering, like it knows it’ll be the one to one day put the Earth out of its misery, and when Mrs. Collon pulls me in by the shoulder to tell me about the strength to the backbone of a dream she’s crying because she walks with a limp and knows reality is stronger.
III. On the other side of the country a rarity of a boy with a wishbone and...
“Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or)...”
– Alan Watts
December 2011
18 posts
Notes On The World Pt. III →
The entire house beeps when I open any door to the outside and this household is composed of light sleepers.
If you ever wanted to know how to kill me, this is it.
Tonight, a certain series of events led me to feel like I was being absolutely suffocated, and for the first time in a week I saw the stars. Do you know how beautiful it is to feel the quietude of a countryside quiet for the first...
“He’d gotten tired of Christmas parties and New Year’s parties and birthdays, and...”
– South Of No North - Charles Bukowski
our good ol’bukowski
Dedicated to Henry Charles Bukowski: Spark →
I always resented all the years, the hours, the minutes I gave them as a working stiff, it actually hurt my head, my insides, it made me dizzy and a bit crazy - I couldn’t understand the murdering of my years yet my fellow workers gave no signs of agony, many of them even seemed satisfied, and seeing them that way drove me almost as crazy as the dull and senseless work.
the workers submitted....
“The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The...”
– Pablo Neruda
“Mistakes are the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the...”
– Lewis Thomas, To Err is Human
“How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves...”
– Don DeLillo
WatchBLUE VALENTINE, directed by Derek Cianfrance (2010)
“A wonderful thing happens when you give up on hope, which is that you realize...”
– Derrick Jensen
“There is a twilight zone in our hearts that we ourselves cannot see. Even when...”
– Henri Nouwen
November 2011
44 posts
“What if the point of life has nothing to do with the creation of an...”
– A Language Older Than Words, Derrick Jensen
I am not a hopeless romantic but I do feel that all above is what living should symbolize. The innermost reason of every fiber of our being is not to cling too harshly to what could,should, would be.
“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is...”
– J. Krishnamurti
“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky....”
– Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
WatchAndrea Gibson, The Madness Vase
The nutritionist said I should eat root vegetables. Said if I could get down thirteen turnips a day I would be grounded, rooted. Said my head would not keep flying away to where the darkness lives. The psychic told me my heart carries too much weight. Said for twenty dollars she’d tell me what to do. I handed her the twenty. She said, “Stop worrying, darling....
“Please don’t let me stop thinking and start blindly frightenedly accepting! I...”
– Sylvia Plath, Journals
“It’s no wonder we don’t defend the land where we live. We don’t live here. We live in television programs and movies and books and with celebrities and in heaven and by rules and laws and abstractions created by people far away and we live anywhere and everywhere except in our particular bodies on this particular land at this particular moment in these particular circumstances.”
- Derrick...
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the...”
– Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
http://endofmarch.tumblr.com/post/13097189102/my-mi... →
My mind is a whirlpool and I am water, elusive and slippery. Endless circles of thoughts, feelings, and fears. A perfect storm. Keep slipping from between my fingers, with no firm grip on my self. Scattered, and everywhere, flowing away, stretching along the days, relentlessly. I have no ground. And if I think I can hold all of my currents inside my self, all contained within my ribcage (in a salt...
“No history books used in public schools informed us about racial imperialism....”
– bell hooks: Racism and Feminism
