July 2011
heading to Maine for a week.
No internet, but when I visit internet cafes I’ll do my best to upload things worth the wait :)
“The myth of the slut is used to control women so they will sit down, shut up and...”
– The Myth of the Slut (via feministdykeslut)
“We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the...”
– Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist (via light-essence)
It's funny how one day can be so many things.
“oh god it’s wonderful
to get out of bed
and drink too much coffee
and...”
– Frank O’Hara, 1961 (via foralskelse)
Was supposed to go to a Bright Eyes show tonight
have tickets.
but it’s outside & it’s raining and I’m too hungover to stand up.
Hate myself a little for not going though.
“And the days are not long enough,
And the nights are not long enough,
And life...”
– Ezra Pound
hot, humid, tanned, drunk, lusty summer nights.
precipice:
Just recently, I took up Bikram yoga, where, for 90 minutes you stand in and overheated room and do a series of fast and taxing postures until the sweat pours from your body. As I attempted my first class, I thought of all the other exercise regimes I had set myself over the years – aerobics, swimming, Pilates, running – and how each time I had imagined myself excelling at them until...
I think Matt Lewis looks sort of like Sufjan...
I’m way too lazy to provide photo evidence, but check it & tell me I’m wrong.
“There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via wildhorsescouldntdragmeaway)
“Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later,...”
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (via estincelle)
REVELATION OF THE DAY:
I think I have angular cheilitis, not cold sores. (!!!)
I always thought it didn’t quite seem like I had cold sores &
I have an iron deficiency, which causes angular cheilitis!!!
This would be relieving. And also good to know, since you treat them differently.
“All we can do is adapt the way we view this condition, not as a crime or a...”
– Russell Brand on addiction, following the death of Amy Winehouse (via quote-book)
Well, now I'm unemployed.
“somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have...”
– E.E. Cummings
“We must show humanity, warmth towards others. People need each other. It is...”
– Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg (via zainyk)
I am so astounded by the Norwegian response to the recent terrorist attacks. Beautiful.
1 tag
baleen-morning:
“i wish for a kindred soul to spend countless nights with, overlooking the ocean waters and sipping tea, tangling restless fingers and never ceasing the showing of teeth. a lover, a friend, a soulmate. a bright face among withered ones, a soul that treads beside mine on dreamscapes, someone whose body can hardly encompass their undying breathtaking passion. enlightened souls. a...
Scientific Advances on Contraceptive for Men →
Interesting NY Times article about the advances toward a male contraceptive. It would be nice, s’all I’m saying.
“I wish we could spend July be the sea, browning ourselves and feeling...”
– Zelda Fitzgerald (via modernhepburn)
A great but important task is to try to live each day with joy, rather than waiting for the weekend all the time.
There are 7 days in a week, to only live 2 or 3 of them happily is madness.
“It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive...”
– Mitch Albom (via kari-shma)
