September 2010
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“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom...”
– Anaïs Nin (via oceanofmind)
August 2010
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June 2010
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April 2010
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“Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via reluctantbuddha)
March 2010
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December 2009
39 posts
Going to Bed
by George Bilgere
I check the locks on the front door and the side door, make sure the windows are closed and the heat dialed down. I switch off the computer, turn off the living room lights. I let in the cats. Reverently, I unplug the Christmas tree, leaving Christ and the little animals in the dark. The last thing I do is step out to the back yard for a quick look at...
ONE of my wishes for Christmas...
sixfeetontheground:
(via bethclaire)
A Winter Eden
reluctantbuddha:
A winter garden in an alder swamp, Where conies now come out to sun and romp, As near a paradise as it can be And not melt snow or start a dormant tree. It lifts existence on a plane of snow One level higher than the earth below, One level nearer heaven overhead, And last year’s berries shining scarlet red. It lifts a gaunt luxuriating beast Where he can stretch and hold his...
“‘One thing that always worried me,’ she said slowly, smiling at Warren, ‘there...”
– Joyce Carol Oates (via suzywire) (via booklover) (via ilovereadingandwriting)
“We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades...”
– Max Lerner (via reluctantbuddha)
My Winter Whisper
tylerknott:
This is my whisper to the winter, to the frozen blanket covering the frozen earth, to the shivering dead leaves clinging to skeletal branches and the tiny footprints of tiny animals trying to find warmth. Trying to find home. The darkness now comes early and settles over us like a black curtain over abandoned windows, like a lid rattling shut under the steam of a boiling pot. The...
justbesplendid:
“The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core under extreme temperatures and pressures. These stars- the high mass ones among them- went unstable in their later years- they collapsed and then exploded- scattering their enriched guts...
“‘One thing that always worried me,’ she said slowly, smiling at Warren, ‘there...”
– Joyce Carol Oates (via suzywire)
Precious Moments...
justbesplendid:
To fall in love.
To have a child.
To laugh until it hurts your stomach.
To find mails by the thousands when you return of the vacations.
To manage for a vacation at some pretty place.
To listen to your favorite song in the radio.
To go to bed and to listen while it rains out.
To leave the shower and find that the towel is warm.
To clear your last exam.
To...
Don’t Touch That! The Five Germiest Places
justbesplendid:
m-altruism:
1. The Kitchen Eileen Abruzzo, director of infection control at Long Island College Hospital, in Brooklyn, NY, says that your kitchen sink may be a lot germier than your toilet. Another culprit: your kitchen sponge. Everything you think you’re washing away stays—and multiplies.
2. The Bathroom (at Home and Away) You probably clean the toilet bowl regularly. But how...
“Words in general and adjectives in particular have power. It is a power that...”
– Mr. Prophet (via fatalistichues) (via quote-book)
“We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don’t know who we really...”
– Sogyal Rinpoche (via fatalistichues) (via quote-book)
“It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.”
– Bill Watterson (via quote-book)
“It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so...”
– Anne Frank (via quote-book)
“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with...”
– Lemony Snicket (via kari-shma)