December 2011
32 posts
Augustana- Twenty Years
“Community and personal problems are interrelated, and cannot be split up...”
– Running in Place: Saul Alinksy, Race, and Community Organizing || Mark Santow
“When you focus on culture, or cultures, you take into account habits, patterns,...”
– “The Changing Ecology of Civic Engagement” in Transforming the City: Community Organizing and the Challenge of Political Change || Marion Orr
reconsiderations (from premenstrual symptoms)
I’ve noticed that my pattern of thoughts always grow during finals times and I wonder if it has to do with the fact that I’m forced to use my mind more and actually think to study instead of going through the everyday routines and motions and schedules.
(re)considerations. I think I spend most of my life reconsidering things. Not necessarily reconsidering to change how everything is...
Tonight || Lykke Li
“If we listened to our intellect we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a...”
– Ray Bradbury
listhoughtgraphy 12.13.2011
stop changing your mind
before you even make up your mind
I’m not stable enough to understand
or believe you.
someone has to be the constant in me
it doesn’t have to be you
but you can’t be the whirlwind in me
I’m the whirlwind in me.
you don't have to be next to me to be next to me.
Someone told me I should start writing again. & maybe I should. But I’ve been having doubts of flattening things into words or letters lately. I’ve always been a photographer of moments—in the instant, the seconds, the change between one thing into the next. I’m surprised we haven’t figured out a fancy way of capturing emotions tangibly, considering how scary...
Stay by Andrea Gibson
“Proponents of change are fond of asserting such bold sentiments as, “We...”
– Power in the City: Clarence Stone and the Politics of Inequality Edited by Marion Orr and Valerie C. Johnson
listhoughtgraphy 12.09.2011
you & I
are seeing the world
in completely
different frames
& I’m not sure
if you understand
what I understand
or will understand why I
deeply
deeply
wonder worry about the things I do
because if we want to change anything about this world,
we first, have to disrupt the pattern.
listhoughtgraphy 12.05.2011
you were a missed opportunity
almost like
someone who got away.
thepatrickchen: Lana Del Rey | Born To Die
“I like to think
he survived in order to find me, in order
to arrive here,...”
– Dorianne Laux, excerpt from Music in the Morning (via holdonmagnolia)
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...”
– Anaïs Nin (via danseurs)
Katy Perry - The One That Got Away (R3hab Remix)
