Becoming One With Life

April 2012

6 posts

Occident Joanna Newsom

Joanna Newsom - Occident

Long-life, show your face.
Slow-heart, curb your taste.
Smoke me out of my hiding place.
Long-life, state your case.

Apr 29, 20121 note

#listen

Coping

It has rained for five days
running
the world is
a round puddle
of sunless water
where small islands
are only beginning
to cope
a young boy
in my garden
is bailing out water
from his flower patch
when I ask him why
he tells me
young seeds that have not seen sun
forget
and drown easily.

- Audre Lorde

Apr 22, 201262 notes

“It was easy life, easy peasy, a matter of simple arithmetic: loving people, and allowing yourself to be loved, was only worth the risk if the odds were in your favour, but quite clearly they weren’t. They were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them. So how smart did you have to be to work out that it just wasn’t worth the risk?” —Nick Hornby, About a Boy

Apr 22, 20123 notes

#lit

“Well, then,” she said, “isn’t it time for your soul, which has been ashamed of your meat for so long, to thank your meat for finally doing something wonderful?”
I thought that over. “That sounds right, too,” I said.
“You have to actually do it,” she said.
“How?” I said.
“Hold your hands in front of your eyes,” she said, “and look at those strange and clever animals with love and gratitude, and tell them out loud: ‘Thank you, Meat.’”
So I did.
I held my hands in front of my eyes, and I said out loud and with all my heart: “Thank you, Meat.” —Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut

Apr 11, 2012

#lit

Apr 1, 2012

Apr 1, 201283 notes

#das racist #gif #kool a.d. #heems #original content