June 2012
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On the drive to and from work, I see the same scrub kid with his head down, see this bright red 90s Dodge trying to look expensive. Do you ever get overwhelmed with the idea that we’re all seeing each other and all simultaneously pretending to avoid eye contact, using casual sidelong mirror glances to bounce the reflective light of unfulfilled wonder back and forth from retina to lip to...
May 2012
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Ain’t nothin’ more dangerous than a comfortable rhythm.
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It’s important to constantly be downsizing the bullshit. Simplicity is key.
I’m a big believer in the alinearity of time, and it comforts me to think of all my perfect memories suspended, untainted, in the universe somewhere. So when the people who brought you happiness once bring you bullshit instead, it’s time for them to go. Life’s too short. We’ll always have...
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can’t you fall in love with someone just because they have chosen you without turning back? isn’t watching the evidence of faith enough to break your heart? shouldn’t that be enough?
When another judge on my panel asked how to spell...
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“No good at life, but very funny sometimes with the commentary.”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via ignify)
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Sometimes I worry that those stubbornly broken people — the kind who, when pushed to their knees, stay down and just cannot pull their shins to rise — maybe just aren’t listening to the right music.
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Anonymous asked: What are you afraid of?
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The weird, half-satisfied, half-bittersweet manifestation of “I told you so.” I’m not responsible for anyone’s happiness but my own, and time waits for no one. And yes, enfin, the weird, half-sad, half-euphoric lightness of exoneration from old burdens. Love won’t wait either. It cannot.
“I do not know why the mind chooses these small things to break itself on.”
– “Little Bee,” Chris Cleave (79)
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I guess the most important place to seek beauty is in the tightness in your chest — we need to stop worrying about tangible evidence and concern ourselves with the burnt-sugar brittle capacity to give a shit about someone whom you’ve only just met, in the grand scheme of your life, a mere moment ago. Turn inward, seek inward, allow yourself to be calm and amazed at the same time....
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