February 2012
111 posts
Dark
Christian: I wish you could rent a baby for a while.
Me: I know! I want to play with a baby.
Jenny: Come help in the kids ministry.
Christian: Sara? In the kids ministry? She's too dark for the kids ministry. She'd tell the kids how hard life is.
Me: *laughlaughlaugh* I am great with kids! ... But that's true.
(...I didn't get it verbatim but it's the gist of it.)
“The creative adult is the child who survived”
– Ursula K. Le. Guin.
“There is no life without change.”
“Deserve your dream.”
– Octavio Paz
One day...
… this will all be over.
That day is not today.
“I’m not fascinated by people who smile all the time. What I find interesting is...”
– Unknown (via youngfolksociety)
“You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible...”
– The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
– Van Gogh
Sharing Poetry: Margaret Atwood, "Girl Without... →
sharingpoetry:
Walking through the ruins on your way to work that do not look like ruins with the sun pouring over the seen world like hail or melted silver, that bright and magnificent, each leaf and stone quickened and specific in it, and you can’t hold it, you can’t hold any of it. Distance…
“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect....”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
since feeling is first e.e. cummings since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don’t cry —the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids’ flutter which says we are for each other: then...
Staring.
I’ve been told not to stare at people my entire life. My mom tells me that when I was just a year old, I would stare endlessly at people. That’s one thing that hasn’t changed about me over the years. Without a word, I stare at people. Tracing their shapes, their lines, their movements. Passing no judgements and having little to no thought, I take in the person or people before me...
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 - 1900)
