December 2011
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“I hope things are beautiful. And if they’re not, then I hope you remember...”
– I Wrote This For You
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“That’s what people do who love you. they put their arms around you and love you...”
– Deb Caletti
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My list of gratitude!
Haven’t done one of these in a long time but it’s never too late to re-start….
Salsa dancing (4 times this week!) with Matthew. He’s a fantastic dancer, and I have so much fun
A house full of baked goods. And I can smell platanitos being made right now
Our health and safety this Christmas, and being able to enjoy the celebrations fully
Waking up to read some days
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“Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but...”
– E. E. Cummings
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“When we see love as the will to nurture one’s own or another’s spiritual growth,...”
– bell hooks
Toni Morrison writes that the idea of romantic love and physical beauty are “probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought.”
(via restoried)
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“Being together isn’t about a honeymoon. It’s about the real you and me. I want...”
– - Nicholas Sparks
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“Remember then that there is only one important time, and that time is now. The...”
– Leo the Turtle, The Three Questions by Jon Muth (via quote-book)
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The Egg →
This story basically describes my religious beliefs. Except that I don’t even hang on to the idea of reincarnation necessarily. I believe it more than heaven or hell, but ultimately I’m an agnostic when it comes to afterlife. We can’t know, so why bother?
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“We’re all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take...”
– Libba Bray (via julie911)
Stories….reminds me of dialogue
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“What Nicole and Jonas both went through in school was unconscionable,’’ says...”
– Led by the child who simply knew “The twin boys were identical in every way but one. Wyatt was a girl to the core, and now lives as one, with the help of a brave, loving family and a path-breaking doctor’s care.”
This story in the Boston Globe is brilliant and triumphant and kills me. Not because...
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“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing...”
– Hafez
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Work
I`ll be working in 9 different locations in Surrey starting in January….my longest shift at one specific place being 3 hrs. I`ll definetly get to know the city and the buses! I’ll probably also hate myself a bit….but I’ll be teaching all my favourites this season: spanish, art, empowerment, and even some drama! And this time I have no preschool classes, hallelujah.
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Can you tell the difference between a men's... →
Woww that was really creepy
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Wednesday evening rambles
I’m happy. In a calm, deep way. It’s been a while, and I welcome it so much.
School’s out, I’m home for 4 months now. Looks like I’ve got a lot of work planned for the spring before Barcelona, which is awesome. Hopefully most of the classes fill up! I’ll have more money than I had planned that way :)
I keep having this itch that maybe I didn’t pick the...
undan-hulu:
Undan Hulu by Olafur Arnalds.
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Am I enough of a nerd...?
To take “courses” through open courseware during my 4 month “winter break” before Barcelona? They offer Women’s studies and writing courses…I’m so tempted.
I’ve got to keep in mind I’ll also be studying:
Spanish history/life in Spain
Catalan
Polishing my Spanish
Practicing my French
and maybe volunteering doing some social action projects...
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Behind the Durban Blame Game
This dynamic is only likely to change when we finally get to the point where we are concerned less about short-term economic growth than about our longer-term survival prospects. But by then it may be too late to avert catastrophic and irreversible climate change. Here’s the bitter irony: we are postponing serious climate action for the sake of immediate economic...
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“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Growing faith
I feel more secure with this faith in me. It’s still growing, gently, in my heart. I’m remembering what it’s like to trust- not in someone or something physical, but in something I can’t even see, can’t even prove. It has to do with belief. You can’t have faith and still say “but maybe God doesn’t exist” at least not when your faith is still growing and the words you say, the thoughts you think,...
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I’m sick. Having a sore throat makes me as miserable and pouty as when I’d get snow in my snowpants, or when I get my socks wet.
Just miserable, whiny discomfort. And it’s not even so bad.
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La Pequena Trotamundos/The Petite Globetrotter
Despite being very convinced as a child that I could travel the world for the rest of my life when I grew up, now that I’m a grown up its a lot harder to hold on to that dream. Maybe because of the pressures of getting a good career, settling down, being in a relationship, etc.
But when I read stories like Benny’s (who’s been traveling for 8 years straight now) I get a little...
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“Sex-negative messages don’t keep people from having sex. They keep people from...”
– Sex-Negative Education and the Spectre of Rape « Sex Positive Activism (via junin-toiro)
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The Search for God II
When I remember
what you sound like
I start to hear you
everywhere
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I’m finding faith again. Because life is too hard to figure out without it. And nothing that is that hard can be true. I’m finding faith again because I am tired of trying to rationalize my way through everything. Because the mind can’t be me. It can’t be it. I’m finding faith again because without it everything feels like a battle. Resistance. I want to let go. To...
My neck feels like shit. I have chores to do. It’s the end of the day. I really really want to do a watercolour drawing like I had planned but after messing up the first one because of my neck, I know I shouldn’t stress it even more by trying again.
I’m mad, I’m stressed, I’m tired, I want out.
The only thing I could do right now that wouldn’t hurt is lie...
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Most times
warpaintetiquette:
I am looking for the poem to write. For the next tragedy to crawl onto my page like a cave dwelling creature, leaving me alone and cold, with the justice of a writer upon my struggle. But when you have been in a relationship for two years and two months and you still get a spot at the bar together and just end up talking about how much you love each other, you know, by god,...
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When I grow up...
When I was a kid, I wanted to be all of the following when I grew up, at different points:
A ballet dancer
An archaeologist
An artist
A pilot
The owner of an orphanage
A detective
A writer
A concierge
A photographer
A journalist
A teacher (elementary, then highschool)
A counselor
This is what happens when your parents repeatdely tell you you can be anything you want…you take it...
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Why the fire?
Yup, another blog. Possibly my coolest one yet. This project is going to be big, don’t miss out.
sparkthefire:
about the the project
When we were 5 years old we used to ask questions about everything. Why is the sky blue? Why is the grass green? How are babies made?
We’d ask and ask, and look for the answers everywhere until we were satisfied.
But as we grow it’s easier to accept...
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Love Poem with Harbor View
There, splashed on the floor, lies the light, helplessly yellow. It has been out all night doing Lord knows what, and now it is missing this morning’s addition to your new goatee, the exuberant darkness forged from a good night’s sleep. Outside, the ships lashed to the wharves are slowly unloaded. What do they know? Not even our names. Cargoes...
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“All your work. All your play. None of it compares to one night spent next to the...”
– I Wrote This For You: The Worth
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I'm 20 now and my life is falling apart
Ok, mild exaggeration. I think the fact that I got a 5 day “weekend” after such a crazy semester has left me lost. I stay in my PJ’s till noon or later. My meal times are all over the place. I’ve been writing and reading, but not doing any of the important “to do’s” like booking my freaking dentist appointment.
I seriously need to get my shit together....
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The Chest Cavity
“It just creates and then fulfills a series of needs.”
“That’s all it does?”
“Yup.”
“So why is it so sensitive? It’s not like it’s conscious.”
“It has a degree of choice but not nearly to the same extent as a certain other machine.”
“How do you mean?”
“It creates lists.”
“Lists?”
“Yes, lists. It orders the things it wants to do and then does them, in order of what it defines as most important to...
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25 Most Powerful Photos of 2011 →
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“In our lovemaking we live lives. The fetal stage of tender strokes and...”
– Francesca Lia Block (via hijadelatierra)
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Support "Everyone is Gay"
If you’ve never heard of Everyone is Gay, you should check out their website. These to lovely ladies, Kristin and Danielle started offering advice for LGBTQ youth a year and a half ago, and this fall started up a US-wide tour visiting highschools and colleges to spread awareness. They also highlight stories from LGBTQ youth on their new Youtube channel “Your Stories” Through...
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