January 2011
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“The sun and the moon are eternal voyagers; the years that come and go are travelers too. For those whose lives float away on boats, for those who greet old age with hands clasping the lead ropes of horses, travel is life, travel is home. And many are the men of old who have perished as they journeyed.”
Matsuo Basho, The Narrow Road of the Interior
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When I was eight years old (or some age like that), every cool person I knew was named Megan. Or Meagan or Meghan. But Megan - the one without an H or an extra A -was my favorite. So one day I decided to change my name to Megan, too, because that was obviously the secret to being wonderful.
At the time, my mother and I went to an indoor swimming pool at the civic center every Monday and...
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The long list of things Hallie and I say we’re going to do but probably never will:
go bowling
tie-dye things
quilt?
learn how to origami
ride our bikes in the spring
wear shirts with one eyeball on them so together we look like a giant face
win the “triad’s cutest couple” award for our local news station
go to k-mart
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“Segregation shaped me, and education liberated me. It liberates not only the reader, but also the person who has been in prison in the reader’s prejudices.”
-Maya Angelou in African American Lives 2
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These Days - The Tallest Man on Earth
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“As for my place in an uncertain world, my aim in an ephemeral life- I had no doubts on that score. It was up to man, as God’s creation, to make the universe more welcoming.”
Elie Wiesel, From the Kingdom of Memory
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When people my age love to drink and party,
abcdefghijkatie:
and i’m sitting there like……..
<3 story of mine and hallie’s life
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flambowience:
comptine d’ ete #3 - yann...
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“What if the water that came out of the shower was treated with a chemical that responded to a combination of things, like your heartbeat, and your body temperature , and your brain waves, so that your skin changed color according to your mood? If you were extremely excited your skin would turn green, and if you were angry you’d turn red, obviously, and if you felt like shiitake...
I had to post this again →
allfangsandelbows:
laurencephilomene:
yourethe-ocean:
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I’ve never been so fucking moved by photographs in my entire life until now. Holy fucking shit gfkjdhfghj ug u gu g ug ug
oh wow
so terribly sad but so incredible.
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Feist - I feel it All
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“These creatures in the world below, he said, were compounded of the essence of heaven and earth, and nothing that goes on there should surprise us.”
-Monkey: Journey to the West
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Entire Cities - Coffee
“Who you...
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That awkward moment when you’re telling your cats how wonderful they are, and they don’t care…
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“Houses in a row, houses in a row,
Houses in a row.
Squares, squares, squares.
Houses in a row.
People now have square souls,
Ideas in a row
And an angle on the back.
Yesterday I myself cried a tear.
My God - square.”
Alfonsina Storni
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“In camp too, a man might draw the attention of a comrade working next to him to a nice view of the setting sun shining through the tall trees of the Bavarian woods (as in the famous water color by Dürer), the same woods in which we had built an enormous, hidden munitions plant. One evening, when we were already resting on the floor of our hut, dead tired, soup bowls in hand, a fellow...
Leonard Cohen - Leaving Green Sleeves