May 2012
5 posts
lately: very little of substance. an extended period of waiting, of devising and resetting the many countdown calendars, thoughtfully planning and preparing while not actually doing much of either. holding over until i can make the leap from this chapter to the next, the corporate world to bali to grad school, and hoping that the future will indeed turn out to be the way that i envision it will be...
“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are...”
– Gary Provost (via danceabletragedy)
April 2012
9 posts
“Begin with that most terrifying of all things, a clean slate. Then look, every...”
– Anna Quindlen, 1999 Mount Holyoke Commencement Speech (via le-toit)
Tomorrow: Anna Quindlen
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“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil GAIMAN (via danceabletragedy)
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“Threes try to deny their shame, and are potentially the most out of touch with...”
– The Enneagram Institute, “How the Enneagram Personality System Works”
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“Everyone needs attention, encouragement, and the affirmation of their value in...”
– The Enneagram Institute, Type Descriptions - “Type 3: The Achiever”
Tomorrow: The wait moves to single digits but
Tonight: Animal cookies and champagne for dinner
Because: I’m an adult.
March 2012
8 posts
i’ve been aching to write these past few days/weeks, something meaty and naked and raw that will only quietly affect the people who read it - that will float somewhere in between their ribs and their throats, that they’ll be reminded of off and on in certain, specific instances for the next few years, until they realize it’s been way longer than they expected and make them wonder...
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever...”
– Steve Jobs, 2005 Commencement Address, Stanford University
“I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I...”
– Lao Tzu (via elige)
Anonymous asked: i love your writing - mom
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i couldn’t focus at all today. ok not totally true - i could focus but not on what i needed or was supposed to. i’ve felt sluggish and wandersy and tapped out at work. i haven’t been doing yoga or running regularly. i haven’t been eating right either - i just had smelly cheese and cake for what will probably be my dinner, again. i’m expecting a letter from grad school...
February 2012
8 posts
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i have written some things lately, more recently than my last post here, but i keep going back through my posts a couple days later with a heavy hand on the delete button. i guess i don’t have much else to write about other than that right now. i spend a lot of time stress-eating at work, and most of my time outside of 650 california street is spent at yoga, dealing with my taxes,...
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“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to...”
– Buddha (via funeral)
“She stays lost in the middle of her own world somewhere. We can’t get in and she...”
– Malorie Blackman (Noughts & Crosses)
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“Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the heart.”
– Kahlil Gibran
January 2012
16 posts
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i woke up at 8:42 and laid in bed past noon today. i’ve never done that before, but that fits because i’ve never done many of the things i’ve been doing lately. going to a tailor, buying car insurance, becoming one of the regulars at my yoga studio, quitting my soccer team. i’ve also never been at the mercy of other people who will be making decisions that directly impact...
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““The wind is blowing, blowing over the grass.
It shakes the willow...”
– Silverweed’s Song, Watership Down, by Richard Adams
i’ve read this book 19 times and counting. it never gets old.
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i just started writing my last grad school application essay in earnest (thank you goes to ryan, for the sit-down brainstorming coffee giggle session this morning that inspired today’s cogency after many, many, many weeks of essay aimlessness). i finally know where this one-page essay is going, and i know what words to use to get it there. when i finish it later tonight, it’s going to...
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“I don’t suppose I really know you very well - but I know you smell like the...”
– Zelda Fitzgerald, in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (via debonairs)
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“Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in...”
– Carl Sagan’s widow, Ann Druyan
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Why You're Beautiful →
via the wonderful Kyle Lipinski
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“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.”
– Haruki Murakami (Sputnik Sweetheart)
December 2011
16 posts
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“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I am in them, and that is...”
– Edvard Munch (via kobalts-grey)
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“My glassy heart smashed into his, The shattered pieces of everything we had held...”
– Thoughts (via romeoforgotjuliet)