January 2012
28 posts
“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall...”
– Richard Siken (via venebelle)
wow.
“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall...”
– Richard Siken (via venebelle)
wow.
“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that...”
– Billy, age 4.
“you know when you are walking down the street at five or six and its just...”
– 09 feb 2008
thecells:
Cat Power - Fool
“This book gives me more information about penguins than I care to have.”
– In 1944 a children’s book club sent a volume about penguins to a 10-year-old girl, enclosing a card seeking her opinion.
She wrote, “This book gives me more information about penguins than I care to have.”
American diplomat Hugh Gibson called it the finest piece of literary criticism he had ever...
December 2011
17 posts
in 2011 i lived by my favourite words, said to me by a german man on a bus in fiji, which are ‘have fun everywhere’. i tried to live fearlessly and enjoy every minute. take the bad ones as a learning experience and tuck the good ones away to revisit over and over.
as far as i can tell this practice has served me well. i now have a new job in a new city with a new-old relationship and...
once again successfully and unintentionally ruined christmas. considering celebrating only the solstice next year. hmmm.
things that are different now:
i have long hair.
i take my car into the city and on long drives by myself and it makes me very happy.
i live in a city that i wasn’t born in.
things that are the same:
i’m kissing him again and we both know we are leaving.
but it’s still different this time.
new flashing lights - old cabin.
so we can look...
WatchCheap Souvenir - Declan O’Donovan
November 2011
23 posts
the past few days have been huge:
mornings in bed with m. things are different, like i said. i am being cautious and i am confused but i like him and i like how it feels to lie on his shoulder.
racing through the days with a foggy wine-brain. cooking for 150 people from a hotel-room kitchen. lots of running and yelling and high fives. adrenaline and wine flowing which is just the way i like it.
...
“big days! paying for a bottle of vino with a roll of quarters, snowshoeing up...”
– wine-drunk facebook status update after working 14 hours yesterday for a fundraiser
it’s different this time.
he called me pretty and tucked my hair behind my ear; i almost cried. there’s been a lot of beauty around these days and i have tears in my eyes a lot.
scared shitless.
leave in a few days to my new job: sous-chef at a high end, low-capacity heli ski resort. it’s nice that people believe that i can do it but i don’t think anyone fully grasps the situation i’ve put myself in.