February 2012
14 posts
“The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via boardwalktoeden)
(thank god)
a lot of things in life are like a glass of cabernet. you just need to let it breathe a little.
“For as long as I have known you, you have been to me ‘half angel and half bird...”
– Gordon Bottomly, 1899 (via philo-sofia)
“To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost...”
– Kathryn Shulz (via beneaththepines)
and then there’s that moment where everything you had left turns to dust
there it lies. all around you, whispering of the stories that it once held in solid form
and you tremble in the fear of knowing the wind is coming to blow it all away
and, one day, away it will go
“People aren’t like numbers they’re more like letters and letters want to become...”
– Oskar Schell, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (via carbonandeternity)
January 2012
16 posts
”But there were nights in bars that I recall Your breath was courage laced with alcohol You leaned in, you said, Make music with the chatter in here, And whisper all the notes in my ears.”
“he tells me never to assume”
you are what you eat
I watched a Ted Talks two days ago about the true self. The man giving the talk suggested that there is no self without the experiences and parts that make it up. Yes, there is a personality, but everything you do and see and experience creates what you are. It’s not a simple subject to explain in a little blog post, but it’s something to consider.
Although part of me would be...
gabyinwonderland:
Mumford & Sons - I gave...
“how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
-annie dillard
A friend gave me a picture with this quote on it for Christmas. What she doesn’t know is it was my favorite gift. I haven’t stopped twirling this thought around in my mind since the moment I read it. I’ve counted the letters, slowly slipped my finger through each curve of the s’s...
“i know it well”
December 2011
18 posts
“linger on, linger on”
“You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you,...”
–
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (trans. Stephen Mitchell)
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...”
– Franz Kafka (via hhelise)
“that thing you do”
There are ways to everyone's heart. This is mine. →
december, be kind(er)
November 2011
10 posts
