October 2012
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i’m moving. with an addition ;)
to here:
http://alifeofloveletters.tumblr.com/
this story is all storied out. chapter = closed. need a fresh start. a more honest start. cleaner, truthier. with -25% less Feelings. (that’s prob not true).
hope to see you there….
September 2012
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“Find someone like yourself. Find others.
Agree you will never desert each...”
– Adrienne Rich, from “Yom Kippur 1984” (via growing-orbits)
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“You go on by doing the best you can, you go on by being generous, you go on by being true, you go on by offering comfort to others who can’t go on, you go on by allowing the unbearable days to pass and allowing the pleasure in other days, you go on by finding a channel for your love and another for your rage.” — Dear Sugar aka Cheryl Strayed
who’s strong enough, all the days of the fall, to not let the cold creep in; who’s strong enough the warmth slips away, not to turn the cold inward?
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today is rosh hashanah, the jewish new year. i’m not particularly secular, but spiritual in a particular way. i recognize that some holidays hold more meaning than others. that by celebrating them, i am taking part in a long legacy of tradition which connects me to the past of my ancestors and first tiny inklings of my DNA. my mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, all the way back to...
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“what is this ‘going for a run’ you speak of” — said the person sitting at the kitchen counter for 2 hours deleting old emails and entering her schedule into i-cal.
wingspan:
Lali Puna- Remember
its fall.
reminder to self on this and many other occasions : step up to the plate. be strong. push through. now is your shot. to carry through the people you love most. don’t falter. don’t waste it. push through. open your eyes. look fear dead in the face. light up. fall, but get up. be light, illuminate the world. carry those closest to you. step up; swing low.
August 2012
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“Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can...”
– Andrea Gibson (via speak-slow)
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“Your life as an egg actually started in your mother’s developing ovary, before...”
– - Men — Who Needs Them?
A counterargument to the conservative “sperm is maaaagic” trope… written by a man lamenting his waning biological utility.
(via egryan)
pretty much on the top of the deck as a topic of conversation for all/most of my life.
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“Finally on my way to yes
I bump...”
– Pesha Joyce Gertler, “The Healing Time” (with thanks to soulclapitshandsandsing)
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tuesdays are starting to make me have borderline anxiety-attacks.
things i hate:
being stuck inside for interminable hours of conference calls on the phone
talking on the phone about things i don’t give a fuck about
having my entire schedule based around someone else’s arbitrary decisions on what/when/where they think things are important
doing redundant work because other...
“If you have the PRIVILEGE to view rape as such an abstract concept that it could...”
– Ally nailed it (via quelalexandradit)
“It’s in your presence
that I set down all this weight
and feel like enough.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson
ephe:
Gold medal for NASA in the 563 billion meters.
ha.
“At Slate, yesterday, Jacob Silverman wrote a piece denouncing the pernicious...”
– My Mother Always Told Me Nice Is As Nice Does - The Rumpus.net
At the Rumpus today. Of course no one will read it!
ew.
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“… How can I help
but love the whole stupid planet?
In which I make mistakes.
In which growing occurs almost daily,
for those who don’t expire. For you
I would make an entirely new animal,
perhaps a larger, more polite bee.
It is very clear to me that I will never
learn my lesson. And that when I am
the one who expires it will help science
begin to mend its injured wings.
I am...
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“Do you remember when we met in Gomorrah? When you were still beardless, and I...”
– Life, Narrated: What Lot’s Wife Would Have Said (If She Wasn’t A Pillar of Salt) / Karen Finneyfrock (via conflictingheart)
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contempler:
I am trying.
so are we all.
July 2012
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i am the tip of a ballpoint pen
the size of a needle
but i speak like an oil spill.
you better watch out;
my accidents drown. you can read printed
press on it. the unthinking sludge so dark its
the black inside
of a mouth sewn shut. when it runs out
know that i’m swimming underneath
so hard friction lights me in flame
universal sign language for:
i’m sorry. i’m...
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OK.
done marinating in self doubt.
let’s get up off the floor.
what a weight to get off my shoulders. MY GOODNESS. i’ve been sitting around feeling sorry for myself and oh brother i am over it dot com. done.
been feeling so bad about the road i’m on right now, because i’ve been guilting myself into feeling beholden to all the people who have given me opportunities....
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“By stepping aside, they’ve done you a favor. Because what you’ve got left after...”
–
Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, “Beauty and the Beast”
(via avay)
I don't own my child's body →
amydentata:
ljarvz:
bemusedlybespectacled:
(CNN) — My daughter occasionally goes on a hugging and kissing strike.
She’s 4. Her parents could get a hug or a kiss, but many people who know her cannot, at least right now. And I won’t make her.
“I would like you to hug Grandma, but I won’t make you do it,” I told her recently.
“I don’t have to?” she asked, cuddling up to me at bedtime,...
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popularity, why yoga is like high school, and...
yogarebels:
i was listening to wFUV the other morning on my drive to go teach. on this particular morning the DJ was talking about “Artists Who Had Strayed From Their Sweet Spots”. these were alternative folk and rock singers who had gone a little too far left of center…. experimented a little too far into somewhere their audience couldn’t follow. as an example, she played a track from Bob...
julia lee yoga: expand your concept of love. →
julialeeyoga:
This morning I was scheduled to sub a class for a fellow instructor who’s currently away on vacation. This instructor is popular and well-liked around the studio, and her classes are known for being both challenging and balanced. During my class prep, I was considering a sequence with lots of…
i, too am not a rockstar teacher. but i have learned more from that than all the...
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michelledean:
“Write like a motherfucker would have to be my first bit of advice. What that means to me is that—as I say in the column—you really, really have to be a warrior and a motherfucker. And you have to be resilient and faithful. You can’t be a wimp. You can’t stand around bitching about how hard it is and how indignant you are that no one appreciates your work, about how no one will...
dear universe, I know every difficult situation is a teacher. so show me the lesson. tell me, what’s the straight up shot of lighter fluid truth. slide it down the bar already, and I’ll drink that shit down. lessons will be learned. fingers crossed, cross my heart, other biblical oaths and promises. just tell me before I get into a barfight.
