January 2011
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“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– ~ Neil Gaiman (via wellthatsjustgreat via gatekeeper)
December 2010
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The Person I Wish I Could Be
One day, when you are standing alone in your living room, full of furniture and yet so empty, when the tears are like salt water estuaries flowing down your cheeks, when in a single day the world has distorted into an unrecognizable impressionism of itself, you will bring your palms to your face and say, oh, how my heart is breaking, and you will weep and hold your chest, surprised your ribs...
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“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the...”
– Roald Dahl, The Minpins (via liquidnight)
juan-o asked: If you owned a DeLorean with a flux capacitor, when would you travel to and why?
Tell me about a celebrity you can't stand.
Fill in the blank: I _____ thus I am.
Tell me about a celebrity you can't stand.
Fill in the blank: I _____ thus I am.
vanfullersublime asked: I went to hear Bradbury lecture a few years back. He was in a wheelchair but still sharp. He was all over the map with his opinions, most of which were wonderful. My favorite quote was this: "In life, there are only three things that matter: the Bible, Shakespeare and dinosaurs."
andreablythe asked: Hey, dude, where the hell is all the original content, yo? Where's the poetry? Where the art? Where are all the bleeping journal pages, for cripes sake?
In other words, where has the you gone in this blog?
In other words, where has the you gone in this blog?
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“Look at the world out there, my God, my God, look at it out there, outside me,...”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via liquidnight)
Bradbury is dope. His work is amazing. His writing blows my mind. He makes worlds come alive. I need to read more Bradbury. For sure.
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“Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.”
– Sogyal Rinpoche (via rerylikes)
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“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with...”
– Maya Angelou (via quotewhore)
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“The poet takes from life that which is quite particular and individual, and...”
– Schopenhauer (via flannelowl)
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How to Make a Snow Angel
Having found some of my photos from Alaska, I can now give you this lesson. (^_^)
1. Find a sufficiently deep section of snow, should be white and fluffy and at least a foot or more deep.
2. Stand in ready position.
3. Fall backwards (hence the necessity of being thorough in step 1).
4. Move your arms up and down and your legs back and forth. (Note: this is best done with gloves and water...
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Poetry Review -- Post Meridian, by Mary Ruefle
I picked up this book of poetry, because I read and loved A Little White Shadow, in which she took an old Victorian manuscript and whited out text to create what she calls erasure (or whiteout) poetry. It was a fascinating way to approach found poetry, which has inspired me to play with the form in my own writing. Post Meridian is a collection of her original poetry. It is sometimes heavy as...
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“There was this little prince with a magic crown. An evil warlock kidnapped him,...”
– Julian Schnabel, Basquiat (via liquidnight)
This quote represents my favorite part of the movie. A gorgeous little fairytale, if ever there was one.
harpweaver-deactivated20110517- asked: “To you and all your family
Your neighbors and your friends
May all your days be happy
With a joy that never ends
May peace and love surround you
At Christmastime and all the whole year through.”
(This is a song that has always been a Christmas staple at my house. It’s old and cheesy, but it seemed fitting....
Your neighbors and your friends
May all your days be happy
With a joy that never ends
May peace and love surround you
At Christmastime and all the whole year through.”
(This is a song that has always been a Christmas staple at my house. It’s old and cheesy, but it seemed fitting....
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“Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters...”
– T.A. Barron
I’ll be off the net for the weekend, spending time with my family and enjoying the sparkling lights around the christmas tree.
I hope everyone has a Happy Holidays whatever path to god you happen to follow. (^_^)
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Letters to My Buddies, Part IV
This is a continuation (and final post) of Day 8 (now Day 9 on the new list) of the 30 Day Letter Challenge: write a letter to your favorite internet friend. * Dear vanevanfuller, Oh, king of color! Oh, architect of artistry! What pageantry parades through the pixelated playland of your computer? Whither does the orange obtain its ornate adornment? How, too, does blue balance upon the linear...
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Elements of Style, Strunk and White
lazybookreviews:
A reader correctly shares his frustration with us:
“Looked up the GQ site a few days ago (there was a piece by Alex Pappademas about Winona Ryder whom I think I’d forgive anything, never mind shoplifting) and encountered this sentence concerning her role in Black Swan: “The character … is a wreck who embodies … everything the movie has to say about the terrible toll...
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Playing Cards
If you take the days and lay them out
like a deck of cards, you will stand stunned,
your face bland and empty as a sheet of paper.
You will have to collect them, gather each one
up into your hands — some days face up, some face down,
some lost under the nightstand or under the rug
(only to be found months and months later
and stared at with confused curiosity). Gathered
and...
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teresamurphy replied to your post: teresamurphy replied to your photo: Guess who’s…
I use to dress up as wonder woman when I was little. I even taped a star to my forehead. Looking back now, I can see I never had the chance to be normal. :P
Haha! :D
Ah, what fun is normal. Normal’s boring.
I think I would have loved Wonder Woman when I was a kid, if I had known about her....
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teresamurphy replied to your photo: Guess who’s holding the Princess of Power in her…
I’ve watched this recently too. It brings back memories! She-Ra was pretty cool when I was a kid. :)
She-Ra was damn cool. I loved that she was a fighter, since I was a fan of action since I was a kid. Though I would watch Transformers and GI Joe, and later TMNT and X-Men, because that was where the...
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Book Review: Talking Back to Poems: A Working...
Reading poetry is a vital part of writing poetry. Alderson takes it a step further, however, by suggesting that poets not only read poetry, but respond to it, to talk back to poetry with poems of their own. Part I presents four short sections that briefly introduce the aspects of Sound, Image, Form, and Meaning in poetry, while Part II follows with a collection of poems, each followed with...
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“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or (via liquidnight)
“You have to get hurt. That’s how you learn. The strongest people out there, the...”
– (via soul-surfer)
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The Morning Glories
Everyday the morning glories, peel back the green
of their protection, and brandish petals of pink,
white, purple, blue. These beautiful weeds, once planted
for the joy of their blooms have spread the tangled
nest of their limbs into every available patch of soil,
choking out the lavender, the calendula, the blue bells.
I take hand fulls of leaves and stems and rip them out.
The sound of...
teresamurphy asked: Whoa! I just got your lovely prose! I absolutely adore it!!! I don't think I've ever had anyone write me a poem before. (Well...there was that guy in high school psych class. But he was a little off..and so was the poem 0_o). LOVE IT! Thank you!!
“Out beyond ideas of wrong doing
and right doing, there is a field.
I will...”
– Rumi (via girlinboyclothes)
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“Poets have little understanding of most worldly occupations, except for writing...”
– Charles Baxter. (via drakespeare)
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vanevanfuller replied to your photo: Attempt to draw a woman’s body, which I haven’t…
Proportions and angles do not constitute art.
Good point. Though I don’t think my sketch constitutes art either. Just a sketch, almost a doodle. But a necessary step in the whole practice, practice, practice thing.
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“Love is an impulse which springs from the most profound depths of our beings,...”
– José Ortega y Gasset. From Whiskey River. (via crashinglybeautiful)
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“Love is an impulse which springs from the most profound depths of our beings,...”
– José Ortega y Gasset. From Whiskey River. (via crashinglybeautiful)
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idealisting: Final Version! →
idealisting:
WRITE A LETTER TO THESE PEOPLE:
Day 1 — Your parents
Day 2 — Your Best Friend
Day 3 — Your Crush
Day 4 — Someone from your childhood
Day 5 — The person that you wish you could be
Day 6 — Your sibling(s) (or closest relative)
Day 7 — Any Ex-boyfriend/girlfriend/love/crush
Day 8 — Your dreams
Day 9 — Your favorite Internet friend
Day 10 — Someone you wish you could meet
Day 11 —...
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“My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of...”
– Sherlock Holmes (via zgulliksen)
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You Learn
ohtheironyofit:
You learn. After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul, and you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning and company doesn’t mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts and presents aren’t promises, and you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes open with the grace of a woman, not the grief of...
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mermaidcomplex asked: I wish I had something more intelligent to say but my honest first remark was "Holy shit. Wow I feel special." :-)
I had decided some time ago that you'd be the subject of my Day 19 - someone outside your state...now I want to make it a poem!
Thank you again!
I had decided some time ago that you'd be the subject of my Day 19 - someone outside your state...now I want to make it a poem!
Thank you again!
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Letters to My Buddies, Part III
This is a continuation of Day 8 of the 30 Day Letter Challenge: write a letter to your favorite internet friend. * Dear Alejandra (aka idealisting), Your woman’s body needs no apology, though its cellular structure may carry the memory of wounds that wobble about like dodos. The past is a paradigm of absurdities, and consideration of such clownish tragedies requires the levity of...
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*grumble, grumble*
I’ve spent some of the afternoon working on more letter-poems, and I have a habit of working in email with them (for reasons I don’t care to explain). It became abundantly clear just how bad of an idea that was when Firefox decided to crash just now, and I lost the entirety of a poem to the ether.
This is why one should have OCD about the save function, my friends.
Oy.