May 2011
2 posts
Well Water
What a girl called “the dailiness of life
(Adding an errand to your errand. Saying,
“Since you’re up …” Making you a means to
A means to a means to) is well water
Pumped from an old well at the bottom of the world.
The pump you pump the water from is rusty
And hard to move and absurd, a squirrel-wheel
A sick squirrel turns slowly, through the sunny
Inexorable hours. And yet sometimes
The...
March 2011
1 post
February 2011
1 post
“We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be,...”
– Joan Didion (via libraryland)
January 2011
1 post
“”Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think....”
– A.A. Milne (via quote-book)
December 2010
2 posts
Watch“your life is stories that you fake / and rake like leaves behind you”
bombadil, local durham band
“The male ego can be a more fragile thing than the female ego, which is used to a...”
– a hilariously accurate quote from Sasha Havlicek, found in an article in the nytimes
November 2010
7 posts
Change
Delirium: Um. What's the name of the word for things not being the same always. You know. I'm sure there is one. Isn't there? There must be a word for it...the thing that lets you know time is happening. Is there a word?
Ruby: Beats me, hon.
Dream: Change.
Delirium: Oh. I was afraid of that.
want!
postcards from penguin, a set of 100 postcards with vintage penguin book covers. combining some of these would make for great wall art…
(via flavorwire)
“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than...”
– Margaret Atwood (via quote-book)
October 2010
3 posts
homesick
sabra field’s “light suite”
“Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you...”
– Charlotte Gray, Sebastian Faulks (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
swish fulfillment
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the feeling of delicate luck after casually tossing something across the room and hitting your target so crisply and perfectly that you feel no desire to even attempt another shot, which is a more compelling argument for the concept of monogamous love than anything sung to a guitar.
September 2010
1 post
you can't save everybody
true words from crossfit watertown
.
You can’t save everybody. That’s a fact.
…
And ultimately, I have to realize that maybe I don’t know best. Maybe my ways aren’t the best ways. Maybe some people are happy right where they are — and they have no reason to believe the life I can give them is better. They don’t want my help. So I have to let them be. See, I can’t save everybody. Most days,...
August 2010
1 post
The capital-T Truth
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default-setting, the “rat race” — the constant gnawing sense of having had and...
July 2010
2 posts
marginalia
a fascinating post on kottke.org links to an article about how medieval manuscripts were produced, and notes the similarities between this process and the web today. my favorite bit:
Of particular delight to us today, much of the marginalia in illuminated books expressed the opinions and feelings of the illuminator about all manner of things-his demanding wife, the debauched monks in his...
"it's harder to be kind than clever"
jeff bezos, the CEO of amazon.com, gave princeton’s graduation speech this year.
What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy — they’re given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you’re not careful, and if you do, it’ll probably be...
June 2010
5 posts
“The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow...”
– Eden Phillpotts
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
– Albert Camus (via samhochberg) (via quote-book)
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going...”
– Charles Bukowski
“This is the danger of loving: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how many...”
– The Tale of Despereaux, Kate DiCamillo (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“I’ve had thousands of problems in my life, most of which never actually...”
– Mark Twain
May 2010
8 posts
“Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a...”
– Leonard Cohen, “Anthem”
“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of...”
– Carlos Casteneda
“On the other hand, if the past were razed, the slate wiped clean, maybe fewer...”
– Richard Russo (via fiendlikethee) (via quote-book)
You Fit Into Me
You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye
-Margaret Atwood
“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent...”
– Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
1 tag
“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it –...”
– Mark Twain
who are you,little i
(five or six years old) peering from some high
window;at the gold of november sunset
(and feeling: that if day has to become night
this is a beautiful way)
—e.e. cummings