February 2012
16 posts
“I suppose this was one reason why people got married, to make a fiction that was...”
– Miranda July, It Chooses You.
“even before we met,
when the assignment was to draw words
with their own...”
– Buddy Wakefield, ‘Flockprinter’ (via loverofstories)
believe me, i don't know.
I’m at that age where people I know (about) are dying because they’ve lived their lifetime out before mine was over—because I’m not that young anymore. But then again, I’m not that old at all and I wouldn’t call myself anything other than young still because I feel young and I think young and I experience all these things through young eyes. I don’t think...
“Embraces from all the wrong people
leave you sadder than none from the ones...”
– S. (via clavicola)
happy valentines day.
I guess. Not really sure what that means but happy valentines day all the same. Whoever came up with such random holidays and why aren’t we getting a day off from school and work for this? Like really. I need the break and a little more love.
“When she stops kissing you
with her mouth open,
find the screw driver.
Buy a...”
– “At First Sight,” Sierra DeMulder (via clavicola)
hair0ld: Tennis - Origins
Great band—one of the...
“Did you know that the metronome inside of us quickens when telling a lie?
I...”
– Megan Falley (via wingspan)
“I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of lightly Crooked...”
– John Green (The Fault in Our Stars)
John Kuhn: America, Stop Making Excuses for...
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2012/02/john_kuhn_america_stop_making.html?cmp=ENL-EU-VIEWS2
Read this! It’s a great read that’s clear and no-duh. Kuhn gets it about education. This is what I’m about. Just read it, or skim it at least.
January 2012
46 posts
“Let’s get one thing out of the way: Mexican immigration is an oxymoron. Mexicans...”
– Sherman Alexie is a poet, short story writer, novelist, and filmmaker. His book “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven,” was on the banned curriculum of the Mexican American Studies Program. http://progressive.org/sherman-alexie
“If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like...”
– William S. Burroughs (via helengeorgia)
“The numbing of love lost hums blackbirds into hypnosis.
I tucked my teeth into...”
– Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein (via clavicola)
twothousandtwelve.
choose happiness
but stay honest with how I’m feeling
allow sadness (but choose happiness)
read more literature
write
experience food through cooking
get lost in new york city
find my way back home
don’t be the girlfriend that gets fat just cause she’s in a relationship
be affectionate
accept love
stay in touch
stay connected
stay
grateful
choose health
fight...
“Your first time out of the country
of your own skin, I didn’t bring a map.
...”
– Heather Sommer, Traveler (via grammatolatry)
“If poverty is a disease that infects an entire community in the form of...”
– Barack Obama Timely. So let’s talk about the patterns.
“Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who...”
– John Green (via vastpastiche)
“I’ve seen your chest explode
each time your smile retracts.”
– Buddy Wakefield, ‘Moving Forward’ (via loverofstories)
photik: Jeff Bernat - If You Wonder
I emailed pictures of the snow to my momma and...
It is beautiful snow, but you have to keep you self warm. Mommy use to live snow day. In the morning you get up look out the win door is cover with white color. you will feel like very peaceful because all white, but very cold. mommy have that feeling is 30 years ago. time gos fast, here your mother is a little old lady by her self. life is short take care your self and enjoy every moment in...
“…changes in governance have generally failed to alter basic patterns of...”
– School Governance in the United States: Historical Puzzles and Anomalies || David Tyack
“People are allowed to be sad once in a while. Choosing happiness doesn’t...”
A.M. Kidd | Baddest Love
“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life;...”
– Miranda July (via thislionsmane)
“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the...”
– Anaïs Nin
“(re)considerations: I don’t think I can be anyone’s girlfriend, or...”
“The thing with you is that you’re not mindful you’re not thoughtful...”
– I’m sorry this is already putting distance between us.
“There is a question I have been wanting to understand the answer to, but have...”
– Michelle Williams, about Heath Ledger (via rickitarrs)
“Well, I would say that I grew up inherently nationalistic. I truly believe that...”
– Talib Kweli: Appropriate or Appreciate? | JLove Calderon (via adailyriot)
“It is illegal for women to go topless in most cities, yet you can buy a magazine...”
– Violet Rose, in Three Steps to Better Sex (via muffdiver)
This reminds me of the post going around which contrasted the pathologizing of public breastfeeding with the gratuitous, objectifying images of women’s breasts that can be found in advertising.
(via thelingerieaddict)
“What I wanted to do was to fasten my index finger and thumb at the bolts of your...”
– Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson (via setyourcompass)
