February 2012
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I miss you so much, Dad. Every single day. Every...
January 2012
6 posts
For without struggle, there is no progress. For...
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Moment of Clarity
I had a wonderful moment of clarity this weekend. A new year, a new beginning, yet all I could think about was that for the first time in nearly four years, I wasn’t going to be involved in VCN. The once familiar was now alien, the comforting discomforting. Too many lonely moments feeling displaced, ostracized and abandoned.
But I made that decision and chose to bear that for myself. I...
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December 2011
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Agency
Excuse the word vomit—-
Smacked in the face by adulthood. I don’t think it meant so much as it does now. Suddenly I have to be the adult and make the adult decisions, but don’t I get a waiver? A practice round, a re-do, anything? Why do I have to be the one to decide these matters, decisions that have repercussions that are still beyond my 22-year-old self. I’ve been...
November 2011
7 posts
Sharing Poetry: Robert Frost, "Birches" →
sharingpoetry:
When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy’s been swinging them. But swinging doesn’t bend them down to stay. Ice-storms do that. Often you must have seen them Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning After a rain. They click upon…
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We all — in the end — die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many...
– Mona Simpson in her eulogy to her brother Steve Jobs
In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing...
– Edith Wharton, from The Age of Innocence
October 2011
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I mean: how shall I explain? I—it’s always so. Each time you happen to me all...
– Newland Archer, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man...
– Theodore Roosevelt
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livingstreamofconsciousness:
sometimes hurt creeps into places you didn’t know existed,
stings the sores you thought were closed.
it is nothing, and
it is everything at the same time
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September 2011
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He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and...
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez (via feroshh)
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The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It is immoral because it...
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
R.I.P. Troy Davis
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it...
– William Blake (via feroshh)
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My Reading List Grows By The Day...
finish The Bell Jar finish The Big Sleep finish Atlas Shrugged Beloved A Farewell To Arms Ulysses Invisible Man Infinite Jest
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