July 2011
22 posts
everyone forgets that Icarus also flew: Song... →
yesyes:
Song
You’re wondering if I’m lonely: OK then, yes, I’m lonely as a plane rides lonely and level on its radio beam, aiming across the Rockies for the blue-strung aisles of an airfield on the ocean.
You want to ask, am I lonely? Well, of course, lonely as a woman driving across country day after day, leaving behind
“For those of us who live at the shoreline
standing upon the constant edges of...”
– Audre Lorde, A Litany For Survival (via thesadnessofpencils)
I LOVE this poem. It speaks an honest truth.
“In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)
Found this to be true time and again.
“Tonight, while walking to the car,
I said your name to the evening star,...”
– C. Dale Young, from “Night Air” (via proustitute)
Beauty in words.
“Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (via bookoasis)
August 2010
1 post
“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be...”
– Ray Bradbury (via kari-shma)
May 2010
1 post
February 2010
1 post
January 2010
3 posts
“Breath in breathe out
Tell me all of your doubt
If everybody bleeds this way...”
– Matt Kearney “Breathe In Breathe Out”
“Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and...”
– Willa Cather
Search these in your iTunes and write down the first song on the list from what comes up.
Happy: My Happy Ending - Avril Lavigne
Sad: sad songs - matt nathanson
Love: All you Need is Love - The Beatles
Hate: She Hates Me - Puddle of Mudd
Light: Can’t Fight the Moonlight - LeeAnn Rimes
Dark: I Will Follow You Into The Dark - Deathcab for Cutie
Good: what a good boy - barenaked ladies
...
December 2009
1 post
“A person cries out against life because it’s lonely, and because life’s broken...”
– Frank Herbert (via nihilnoetia) (via booklover)
November 2009
8 posts
Bowdoin from birth...
Missing the alma mater today. Spoke with some hopefuls who are applying early decision. I remember how nervous I was too. I feel for them…
If they get in, I hope they go on a couple outing club trips, study abroad, go to at least one a cappella performance and learn a little about the history of the college.
A warning to not try to get in the hidden basement below the basement in the Boody...
“When it comes to [people] who are romantically interested in you, it’s...”
– Randy Pausch
“Live through this, and you won’t look back…
There’s one...”
– Stars “your ex-lover’s dead”
“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
– Philip K. Dick (via kari-shma)
“All her life she had grown by these fits and starts. Going on quietly, and...”
– from “Emily Climbs” by L.M. Montgomery
Desiderata by Max Ehermann Part Two
Desiderata by Max Ehrmann Part One
October 2009
10 posts
Happy 25 years of life to me!
I can finally rent a car without paying crazy fees! Sushi and hibachi with friends wraps up a wonderful end to 24.
“I belong to another generation….You sit…and discuss your sports and...”
– The Great Gatsby
“I’m far from fearless. I’m afraid of everything. But maybe when you’re afraid of...”
– Natalie Portman
“i really hope that i don’t get ‘the bridge to terabethia’ again on the flight...”
– Matt Nathanson
September 2009
12 posts
Daily Rumi ~~~
booklover:
blissjunkie19:
If you are seeking, seek us with joy For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else But to the love of those who are clear joy, Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair. For there are hopes: they are real, they exist – Do not go in the direction of darkness – I tell you: suns exist.
- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi
“Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.”
– John Irving from The Cider House Rules