October 2010
September 2010
The Other.
How is it that people come together? I don’t mean a casual fling, a drunken hook-up, or a frenefits situation. I mean, sparks fly, madly in love, he’s asking your dad for permission to marry you kind of come together. The relationships with glue, in which the couple are so comfortable, that they don’t feel the need to be together all the time, to physically express their...
“I would be converted to a religion of grass. Sleep the winter away and rise...”
– “Big Grass” by Louise Erdich
“Falling asleep is like knowing there is someone outside that understands you...”
– “First Snow” by Rick Bass
“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect....”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle”
– Benjamin Franklin
“I laugh and the stars watch. It’s good to be alive.”
– Markus Zusak
More Writing.
This was part of a free write response in my acting class. Note: I had 5 minutes to do this, and it remains unedited, so it’s not my best, just an idea I like.
Her hair was like a cloud of perfume around her face. The light played off of each strand, bouncing back and forth in the fly aways framing her eyes. The way the sun hit the top of her head seemed like mist- a glorious, dazzling...
“Your breath is the tide,
your body is the ocean.
You are home to me.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
Stop doubting yourself. Go out and BE.
Where the Heart is.
According to the old saying, “Home is where the heart is.”
Can’t say I disagree with that. And as of recently, my heart has been where my actual childhood home is. Indiana. I get the wonderful opportunity to go home to my family, friends, dogs, and real food this weekend, and am so grateful for that blessing.
So I apologize in advance for the scarcity of posts coming from...
tylerknott:
“Lover of the Light” by Mumford...
“The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can...”
– William James in The Varieties of Religious Experience. Elsewhere in the lectures, James touches on a central idea of most religions: not only that they “minimize the darker aspects of the objective sphere” of the world, but also that religious theories recontextualize them so that they are no...
John Donne
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for...
