August 2011
21 posts
Blood And Guts
Middle Brother
Middle Brother - Blood and Guts
The older we get, the older we are.
I woke up this morning driving my car
And that is not how it’s supposed to be.
Am I killing time or is it killing me?
Well then.
The following are things that have been waiting in my draft box and elsewhere that remind me of you or I wrote because of you.
I thought you deserved to see.
“Without you I am
Not me or at least not who
I have grown to be.” —Haiku (2000) by Greg Dwyer
Not me or at least not who
I have grown to be.” —Haiku (2000) by Greg Dwyer
There's hard lessons in this world.
What’s the hardest?
I don’t know. Maybe it’s just that when things are gone they’re gone. They aint comin back.
(via becomingonewithlife)
“In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you let go?” —Siddhārtha Gautama
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you let go?” —Siddhārtha Gautama
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“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”
—E.E. Cummings
The Secret
don’t worry, nobody has the
beautiful lady, not really, and
nobody has the strange and
hidden power, nobody is
exceptional or wonderful or
magic, they only seem to be.
it’s all a trick, an in, a con,
don’t buy it, don’t believe it.
the world is packed with
billions of people whose lives
and deaths are useless and
when one of these jumps up
and the light of history shines
upon them, forget it, it’s not
what it seems, it’s just
another act to fool the fools
again.
there are no strong men, there
are no beautiful women.
at least, you can die knowing
this
and you will have
the only possible
victory.
Charles Bukowski
“Don’t be so damn hard on yourself. Yeah, you screwed up. You’re not perfect, fine. Learn from it. But don’t punish yourself. Be kind to you, even when you screw up. You’ll bounce back eventually. You’ll make up for it.”
—Stephanie Klein
“Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when you were not: that gives us no concern. Why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be? To die is only to be as we were before we were born.”
—William Hazlitt
