June 2009
152 posts
Silence can be so deafening that its unbearable. Silence for all the things we want to say but can’t.
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly,...”
– Henry Miller
“For you, a thousand times over.”
– The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
time is the moving image of eternity
“We two alone will sing like birds i’ the cage…/ …so we’ll live,/ And...”
– King Lear, Act V, Scene 3
the really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
My shoes squeek when I walk. I love it!
“Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, Something...”
– Robert Fulghum
Michael Jackson
Today, the popular-music landscape has crumbled into bits and bytes, splintered into hundreds of market niches, subgenres, and microgenres. Though the occasional huge hit collapses the distance between audiences, we will never again experience a moment like Jackson’s 1980s apotheosis, when Thriller seemed to shrink the world. If there is a silver lining to Jackson’s untimely death, at...
“God, I got more in common with these gooks than I do with my own spoiled-rotten...”
– Gran Torino
“Father Janovich: Go in peace.
Walt Kowalski: Oh, I am at peace.”
– Gran Torino
curiosités deviennent des obsessions. passe-temps devenu passion. c’est de cette manière que les déplacements de commencer.
curiosities become obsessions. pastimes become passions. this is how journeys begin.
“discover the person you are before you find the person you need to be.”
– unknown
the world is starving for images
ma mitavanim
“How we need that security! How we need another soul to cling to, another body to...”
– Sylvia Plath
“There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
esperar
esperar:
verb
hope
expect
wait about
wait around
await
wait
wait for
hang around
hang about
hang on
“I want to spend the time I have doing things that make my heart rage.”
– The Great Buck Howard
“We will all laugh at gilded butterflies.”
– King Lear, William Shakespeare
I’m beginning to finally accept that not knowing everything is OK and that people really are good at heart. The thing is, people have really come to surprise me. As humans, we are simple, selfish creatures, but lately, I have started to see the exceptional side of our nature. My friends are my constant reminder of how good people really can be. I am growing every single day and I just want...
no time for beauty →
The Washington Post tried a little experiment. It placed one of the world’s great violinists, Joshua Bell, playing six of the greatest violin masterpieces, in a Subway station at L’Enfant Plaza, to see if anyone would stop and pay attention.
for JMK
give me more lovin then i’ve ever had. make it all better when i’m feelin sad. tell me that i’m special even when i know i’m not. make me feel good when i hurt so bad. barely gettin mad, im so glad i found you. i love bein around you. you make it easy, as easy as 1 2,(1 2 3 4.) theres only one thing two do three words four you. i love you. (i love...
don’t look back unless it’s a good view
it’s important to wonder about people
Lucky that my breasts are small and humble so you don’t confuse them with mountains…
Breathing is getting harder… Omg, I love this song
Whatever it is you’re looking for, you won’t find it here
I never thought I’d be picking out my outfit for your funeral so soon
The truth is, nothing is guaranteed. Don’t be afraid, be alive.
“Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.”
– ANDY, Shawshank Redemption
the only real crime is that you won’t admit that you are God
bee, butterfly, or both?
“Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how...”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
“I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged,...”
– RED, Shawshank Redemption
start as you mean to go on
“Give all to love; obey thy heart.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson 