February 2012
12 posts
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“How many times have people taunted me because of a color that I had on or how...”
– Kanye West (via joshishollywood)
you know, a lot of the time i really can’t stand kanye west but GODDAMN this quote is everything about everything pretty much.
“Unless it’s mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it’s a waste of your time....”
– Dream of an Insomniac (via believour)
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“Some say you’re lucky
If nothing shatters it.
But then you wouldn’t...”
– Gregory Orr, from Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved (via growing-orbits)
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its hard to stay inspired all the time. its harder to stay inspiring all the time. how do i pencil that into my increasing schedule. “Be Inspired, Be Inspiring”. Yoga is an art form, a spiritual practice, a full-body experience. and students are looking to me to have the answers. which i don’t really have. i just have what i already know, what i’ve learned, advice on how...
January 2012
27 posts
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“If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does. … That’s not to pick on homosexuality. It’s...
today is the day where i:
take down all the weird baby cherub art in our house left from previous owner/landlord/tenant.
replace said creepy baby angel paintings with art i will a) buy from savers b) buy from ikea c) make myself.
FUCKING FINISH YOUR LAUNDRY, GIRL. FINISH IT.
go for a training run, have a legit yoga practice, clean your shit up.
i need to be challenged, constantly, i need to...
“Okay, yes, there is a homosexual agenda, okay? There’s just two things on it: 1....”
– Elvira Kurt (via fuckyeahfemmes)
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this morning lauren read me the poem i just posted. i was laying back in front of her, she lifted her hand to read the poem and i moved my head to the side so i could see her read.
i will always be able to picture one side of her face moving as she read it. her ivory peach skin, her flushed apple cheeks, one green eye looking down, the color of nothing i know of in the world, her lips mouthing...
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I am always hungry
& wanting to have
sex. This is a fact.
If you get right
down to it the new
unprocessed peanut
butter is no damn
good & you should
buy it in a jar as
always in the
largest supermarket
you know. And
I am an enemy
of change, as
you know. All
the things I
embrace as new
are in
fact old things,
re-released: swimming,
the sensation of
being dirty in
body...
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“why motherfucker is a word
and fatherfucker isn’t
is all I know of woman’s...”
– Mark Leidner, from The Angel in The Dream of Our Hangover: Aphorisms
(via earlyfrost)
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I’m not trying to brag or anything but I’m going to tell you about my night last night
Had a couple beers, ya know
Yeah, got a little tipsy
Got a little existential crisis-y
Last night I drunk text messaged God
I just wanted to tell him I’d been thinkin’ about him
A lot
And to tell him I’m stalking a church
I meant to write starting a church
No one spells drunk texts right, anyway
Last...
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so much joy it hurts: My Memories of You Are... →
kathleenjoy:
In that country there is a train
that stops when it gets tired It doesn’t bother
to read the signs There is a man in my car
who claims to be French
but does not understand me
when I ask quelle heure
est-il He shows me a picture of a man
and points to himself And the man
in the picture…
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i love teaching yoga. i do. SO overwhelmingly grateful. and i think yoga loves me teaching it (sometimes, sometimes not), and i am filled with appreciation for my students, and they are amazing beings of light and goodness and blah blah blah but let me just state for the record that getting up at 7am every saturday morning for, esssssennnnntially the last 3 years, including on particular mornings...
30 Things
30 things to start doing for yourself.
Start cheering for other people’s victories. – Start noticing what you like about others and tell them. Having an appreciation for how amazing the people around you are leads to good places – productive, fulfilling, peaceful places. So be happy for those who are making progress. Cheer for their victories. Be thankful for their blessings, openly. What...
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my mom was giving me advice (MY mom was giving me ADVICE) yesterday afternoon, while i was coming really down from a particularly awful high. i mean the first piece of advice she gave me was not to do drugs. noted, agreed. i don’t, usually, but i made a weird self-indulgent, or maybe self-destructive exception. anyway, what she said to me, after chewing me out a bit, was this:
...
“she was hungry, so hungry
she was trying to think clear
she kept opening the fridge door
and looking at the mustard and the beer
then when finally she went out into the rain
carrying her bicycle chain
and her feet were the pedals
while her appetite steered.
and after that she just followed her nose;
and fate is not just
whose cooking smells good
but which way the wind...
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Nighttime Begins with a Line by Pablo Neruda,...
kathleenjoy:
So my body went on growing, by night, went on pleading & singing to the earth I was born to be woven back into Love, let me see if I can’t sink my roots deeper into you, your minerals & water, your leaf rot & gold, your telling & un- telling of the oldest tales inscribed on wind-carved rocks, silt & grass, your songs & prayers, your oaths & myths,...
good advice, #1: do things that scare the living shit out of you, and do them all the time.
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“We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say. Partly because we’re so busy communicating. And — as he might also have said — we’re rushing to meet so many deadlines that we hardly register that what we need most are lifelines.
So what to do? The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier...
“In that book which is my memory,
On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you,
Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.”
— Dante Alighieri (Vita Nuova)
2011, you’ve left me exhausted and bruised, slightly unhinged and untethered. your lows were excruciating, your highs of the all-time variety. would I lie and say you didn’t crush me? you did....
December 2011
22 posts
ohhhhhhh 2011, you silly bitch. more on you later.
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All day it has been raining,
and all day this poem has been sinking
into my skin like sticky blossoms.
The sky a grey-blue bucket,
heavy and tarnished to its rims with
copper lightning—shaking, rumbling,
this rain I have carried in ruddy pails
from far north to the sun-thick South.
The earth is splitting at its seams,
goldenrod and foxglove and an abundant
green spilling from the...
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“If someone told me to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages...”
– Albert Camus (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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“Call me what you wish
and no matter what that is
I will call you home.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
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alright that’s not true:
i’m ready to run.
it’s been way too long since i’ve packed up basic necessities of what i own and zipped it up, slung it over my shoulder, walked away. i hate the grey basic skyline here, the low hum of suburban mediocrity, that gradual, invisible decline, that passive baseline acceptance.
i don’t wear shoes, i wear sunglasses, i wear...
don’t you know by now
if I can’t say it that right way;
silence.
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warsan versus melancholy.: first thought after... →
warsanshire:
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‘come with every wound
and every woman you’ve ever loved
every lie you’ve ever told
and whatever it is that keeps you up at night
every mouth you’ve punched in
all the blood you’ve ever tasted
come with every enemy you’ve ever made
and all the family you’ve ever buried
and…
“I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still...”
– Hermann Hesse, Demian, trans. Michael Roloff and Michael Lebeck (via aneffectacosmetic)