February 2012
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Predictions on weekday.
leaonik:
Tomorrow we will make bets on who is better in bed.
I’ll say,”Stay sweet.”
You’ll say, “Stay sober.”
I’ll write you poems behind your back.
42 lines about the way you like your tea,
and the way you read my journal by the mini lamp in the bathroom.
We’ll see a movie at 2:15 and I’ll forget how it started
but I’ll remember your fingers on the inside of my right thigh.
You’ll...
today
writing letters, listening to hip-hop, working on my poetry project (If anyone wants to record an audio file of them reading this certain poem for me I would love you forever and send you a letter full of lovely little things.), more work, then hanging out with some pretty neat people tonight.
I would write you a poem in the language our bodies speak, but I’m afraid that sometimes I interpret things differently than other people. I’m afraid I am backwards. I’m afraid I’ve swallowed too many words that I couldn’t say, and they collect in the pit of my stomach making me feel heavy at times I should feel light. Every once in a while they come up all together...
So today I stood next to the Iraqi Minister of Higher Education. It was cool. Today was a pretty neat day.
“My body is a dead language and you pronounce each word perfectly.”
– Sierra DeMulder, Unrequited Love Poem (via nirvikalpa)
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“Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the...”
– Mohandas Gandhi (via nirvikalpa)
Anonymous asked: What are your favorite shops on Etsy?
It is easy to feel brave and content in your aloneness when you’re sitting in a blanket fort late at night. It’s easy to feel seven feet tall and afraid of nothing when you haven’t had to face anyone for a while. When you’re sitting there with fairy lights around you dreaming of blue hair and the places you’re going to travel someday and all the books you...
late at night.
wondering why i’m still awake. everything is sharper and although my feet are cold, my head is clearer than it’s been in awhile and words aren’t so hard to reach. little conversations seem more worth it and it’s one of those times that its hard to imagine anyone is doing anything but sitting quietly in the homes, quietly in 24 hour restaurants, doing...
meaningless
Give me a body that doesn’t ache with the weight of all these unspoken words and I will tell you about all the times I’ve dreamed of flying. There are many other people I wish I could be, but never will. Just as many times as I’ve bookmarked phrases in my head, filed under ‘things I will tell me daughter when she is this age.’ It’s sort of like when you repeat a...
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
-Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
I posted this quote not very long ago, but it really made me think. We were always told to save the best for last, but what if there’s no time for that? This life is short and beautiful things are being created everyday, so why waste time...
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“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world...”
– John Green (via rarararambles)
“Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal”
technicoloring:
After learning my flight was detained 4 hours, I heard the announcement: If anyone in the vicinity of gate 4-A understands any Arabic, please come to the gate immediately.
Well — one pauses these days. Gate 4-A was my own gate. I went there. An older woman in full traditional Palestinian dress, just like my grandma wore, was crumpled to the floor, wailing loudly. Help, said...
I wish I could find a way to say all the things that are beating inside of me, almost in time with my heartbeat, but not quite. They are feelings and impulses, flashes of light and color that I can’t even begin to formulate into sentences. It’s not even that I have the problem of figuring out what to say after the fact, it’s that those words are on the tip of my tongue right...
jevoislavieenrose asked: LOVE YOU HAPPY V DAY MY PRECIOUS LITTLE BUTTON MUCH LOVE AND BLESSINGS UPON YOUR HOUSEHOLD ON THIS JOYOUS DAY OF CANDY AND WARM COLORS THAT ARE NOT FLATTERING WITH MY SKIN TONE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU
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I am building up a mountain of tissues in my bed to fill up all the spaces my body won’t. If only there were other things to fill that emptiness, people or books, perhaps. But alas, they have such sharp edges. My body tells me I have a cold, but maybe my eyes are watering with all the tears I haven’t let escape. Tears for happiness and sadness and understanding. Relief. I can’t...
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everything lately
writing little love letters to strangers and falling in love with mail again (message me if you’d like)
long talks and big plans with people i love, secrets and hopes, and remembering i’m not so alone, remembering how worth it and wonderful everything is
film and remembering to take out my camera more, capturing memories and moments to hold onto
falling in love...
Badass female role models? (real or fictional) Go. (?)
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“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
– Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (via bookmania)
mahpiohanzia
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the disappointment of being unable to fly, unable to stretch out your arms and vault into the air, having finally shrugged off the ballast of your own weight and ignited the fuel tank of unfulfilled desires you’ve been storing up since before you were born.
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I know I’m not supposed to have it all figured out yet, but what do you do when suddenly you’re changing your mind about all the things you thought you knew for sure?
nighttime ramblings
Have you ever gotten that feeling late at night where you begin to miss everyone you’ve ever cared about? I stay up so late sometimes, just because it’s when I feel the most. Everything I think about feels faded and worn or too grand and dazzling to be real. It’s all jumbled together in a mix of the things that have been and the things that will be. Sometimes...
“It’s not right to respond to terrorism by terrorizing other people. And...”
– Howard Zinn (via sarah-today)
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be...”
– Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (via bookmania)
January 2012
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You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral
thereisafish:
You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know...
“I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards...”
– John Green “The Fault in Our Stars” (via nerdfighter007)
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