août 2011
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes...
– Anaïs Nin
Charity isn’t a good substitute for justice.
– Jonathan Kozol.
Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in a love in a...
– Pedro Arrupe, S.J.
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They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I’ve...
– Jack Kerouac, On The Road (via weirdbitterdays)
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Do you believe in always, the wind
said to the rain
I am too busy with
my...
– e.e. cummings, you said Is
DEAR SUGAR, #71: The Ghost Ship That Didn’t Carry...
…
So there you are on the floor, your gigantic white piece of paper with things written all over it like a ship’s sail, and maybe you don’t have clarity still, maybe you don’t know what to do, but you feel something, don’t you? The sketches of your real life and your sister life are right there before you and you get to decide what to do. One is the life you’ll have, the other is the one...
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It took me a long time,” she said, “To stop confusing safety with love.
– Brian Andreas
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An excerpt from Naomi Wolf’s Gift of Speech
Ask: What’s the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare. Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it’s personal. And the world won’t end.
And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you...
Hello, Seattle.
…next and final stop, Portland.
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I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like...
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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vredig a demandé : Erica,
I hope you have the most wonderful and enlightening time in Montana. I look forward to reading about all your adventures and being inspired by you daily. I hope you have the safest of flights and happiest of times.
love, Melissa
I hope you have the most wonderful and enlightening time in Montana. I look forward to reading about all your adventures and being inspired by you daily. I hope you have the safest of flights and happiest of times.
love, Melissa
I’ll give you my heart to make a place
for it to happen, evidence of a love...
– Richard Siken
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Gandhi said that whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it’s...
– I’m having trouble finding where Gandhi fits into this…but I love it.
Things that sneak up on me:
Goodbyes
1am
The exit to Route 3 South off of 93
High tide
Love
Tan lines
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