February 2012
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I woke up really dreading today. So much to do, not enough sleep, and not enough interest to get me through it. In my first lecture class, one of the graduating seniors brought her toddler daughter because she’d been running a fever all night. Just her luck, too, because today was her turn to lead an hour-long class presentation. The student clearly hadn’t gotten any sleep, but she had...
“The hardest trade in the world is the writing of straight, honest prose about...”
– Ernest Hemingway By Edward Stafford, “On Being a Writer”
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Birthday.
I have -*GASP*- time to myself. Right now, for 24 minutes.
“Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life”
– Proverbs 4:23
I had the most fulfilling Valentine’s Day I’ve ever had, and that’s with the knowledge that my heart is 9000 miles away. There’s so much unadulterated happiness that comes with the company of those soul friends found around me.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that...
That, and I live in Texas where Walmart hangs its new swimwear line next to the sweaters next to the breezy chiffon tops next to the thermal socks.
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“I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that’s why it is...”
– Osho
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The minute you think of giving up, think of the reason why you held on so long.
“I use my eyes to explain what I can see and my heart to explain what I...”
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything...”
– John Muir
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Thought Catalog: How to Miss Someone
“Try to regain what you’ve lost but have trouble expressing yourself. Choose all the wrong words; speak your own limited language. You’ll mean to say, “I’m keeping busy,“ or “How was your day?” or “I’ve been reading this fantastic book you’d like; you should borrow it,” but all of the sentiments just spill out of your mouth as “I miss you.” Every gap in conversation caulked with “I miss...
Every inch of me is itching and yearning and dying all the same. I can’t stay, I can’t leave, I can’t can’t can’t. I know a day is coming where I’ll drag my carcass from the blankets, the hiding and the numbness because a new day will come and the sun will shine and blah blah blah. A catalyst will cultivate and that’s when it will become uphill, but right...
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50 states. 50 lines. 50 "crying-all-the-time's."...
Five lines to cross.
“That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth”
– Andrea Gibson
“My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
– Rumi (via objectsinlove)
January 2012
28 posts
“The spiritual work of being human is learning how to love and how to forgive.”
People are strange, that’s why we are strangers.
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Just spent 8 hours dreaming of chatting it up with Michelle Obama. NO BIG DEAL.
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FUCK I JUST MESSED UP MY TUMBLR THEME
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