January 2011
“It makes one all right, though you hadn’t thought of it,
A sound like the sound...”
– George Bradley
“The Christmas twigs crispen and needles rattle
Along the window-ledge.
...”
– Margaret Avison
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TopatoCo: Glam Breakfast Mug (Temporarily Out of... →
why, why, why are you out of stock?
TopatoCo: Pap Smears for Everyone Shirt **LAST... →
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Jeff Buckley - New Year’s...
Bicycle print ruffle bum skirt by LoveToLoveYou on... →
“Letters swallow themselves in seconds.
Notes friends tied to the doorknob, ...”
– Naomi Shihab Nye
December 2010
“I want the hoop around our hearts to be a guide not a terror. I don’t want to...”
– Written on the Body; Jeanette Winterson (via debjessski)
sarcasticnarcissist:
My Year in Lists - Los...
Walk While Reading: “The night, as the saying... →
walkwhilereading:
“The night, as the saying goes, was a jewel in our crown. We played as one, and the pulse and pitch of the band spiraled us into another dimension. Yet with all the swirling around me, I could feel another presence as surely as the rabbit senses the hound. He was there. I suddenly understood the…
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via gatekeeper)
i posted this a year ago (and, possibly the year before that?). it still strikes me as maybe the best new year’s wish possible.
(via isabelthespy)
Me too—and you know what? I think I did all those things in 2010. So it must’ve been an all right year after all.
(via...
“You think this is working—
This is easy living:
To overhear some music,
And,...”
– Anna Akhmatova, from “Secrets of the Craft - The Poet” (via aubade)
“The end was quick and bitter.
Slow and sweet was the time between us,
slow and...”
– Yehuda Amichai, “Quick and Bitter” (via aubade)
“…In other words, ‘woman’ need not be the cultural construction of the female...”
– Judith Butler
moosemoosemoose: “I Love You Sweatheart” A man... →
moosen:
“I Love You Sweatheart”
A man risked his life to write the words. A man hung upside down (an idiot friend holding his legs?) with spray paint to write the words on a girder fifty feet above a highway. And his beloved, the next morning driving to work…? His words are not (meant to be) so unique.
chelsea: Greenhorns Call for Essay Submission →
seaponies:
(The Greenhorns project has a strong white voice so if you’re a POC or know a POC who fits the bill please try to submit!)
You might have seen the greenhorns guidebook for beginning farmers: http://www.thegreenhorns.net/reading.html
Greenhorns GUIDEBOOKis a resource for the new…
“Conservative manipulation of mass media has successfully encouraged parents and...”
– bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (via adailyriot)
“The quick sparks on the gorse bushes are leaping,
Little jets of...”
– D.H. Lawrence