June 2012
delete the adjectives: unbornwhiskey: It was our... →
unbornwhiskey:
It was our first home— our damp, upstairs, one-year eyrie— above a tree-lined area nearer the city.
My talkative, unsure, unsettled self was everywhere; but you were the clear spirit of somewhere.
At night when we settled down in the big bed by the window, over the…
May 2012
corrinda:
Assholes: You should hate yourself because you’re fat and that’s ugly.
Fat People: I think I look marvelous.
Assholes: Well, you should hate yourself because being fat isn’t healthy.
Fat People: Why is my health your problem?
Assholes: You’re being fat gives a bad example to my kids who then will think it’s OK to be fat and unhealthy.
Fat People: Why are your kids my problem?
...
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero (via kari-shma)
kohlton:
daangmel:
welp, here’s another...
Listening to: Papas Fritas “Way You Walk” (on KEXP)
Eating: Nada, it’s past dinner.
Drinking: A giant bottle of H2O
Reading: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs and Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
Watching: Gilmore Girls, season 2
Wearing: gigantically too big, plaid, fleece pj pants and a black tshirt
Writing:The usual.
Thinking:...
Last night, as I was sleeping, I dreamt — marvelous error!— that a spring was breaking out in my heart. I said: Along which secret aqueduct, Oh water, are you coming to me, water of a new life that I have never drunk?
Last night, as I was sleeping, I dreamt — marvelous error!— that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from...
“We also have this idea that our bodies are only worth their value to other...”
– Dianne Sylvan
kkatkkrap:
A’capella cover, huh… we’ll see about...
“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on.”
– Sheryl Sandberg’s Inspiring Speech At Harvard Business School (via courtenaybird)
YES (via joshmohrer)
“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on.”
– Sheryl Sandberg’s Inspiring Speech At Harvard Business School (via courtenaybird)
YES (via joshmohrer)
The Opposite of Lonliness
The piece below was written by Marina Keegan ‘12 for a special edition of the News distributed at the class of 2012’s commencement exercises last week. Keegan died in a car accident on Saturday. She was 22.
We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life. What I’m grateful and thankful to have found at Yale, and what I’m...
WatchI spent money I shouldn’t have to back this project (and, let’s face it, I wanted the t-shirt that came with my level of pledge) and you should definitely check it out. Andy Smetanka is a Missoula local—and he did the animation for the music video of The Decemberists The Bachelor and the Bride. Help him! He only has a few days left to fund the project.
“It’s the oldest story in the world. One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for...”
– Nathan Scott (via no-one-hears-before-i-disappear)
I had a dream that I met John and Hank Green...
thedoctorwillsaveme:
WHY CAN’T THIS BE REAL?!?!?!
I know Katherine and I met Hank! Not John yet, though.
