“[And because I finally woke up to that whole realization much too late—the realization that life really happens and there is always a consequence for your actions—I lost everything, in some sense, but in a weird kind of great way, if you flip it all around, I may have gained the most important thing of all: the truth.] I can live with that.”
—Jason Myers, from Exit Here (thanks, wesley-rush)
May 2012
2 posts
“What I learned then sustains me
through every sorrow:
it’s the believer who keeps looking for proof.” —Anne Michaels, from “A Lesson from the Earth”, in Miner’s Pond (via the-final-sentence)
through every sorrow:
it’s the believer who keeps looking for proof.” —Anne Michaels, from “A Lesson from the Earth”, in Miner’s Pond (via the-final-sentence)
April 2012
1 post
March 2012
7 posts
“My wife and I were at a dinner in Washington DC earlier this year - it was a cancer event - and this woman sat down and said ‘Nice to meet you I’m so and so, and I’m a 30 year cancer survivor’. That wasn’t all that she was, but that was simply part of what she had gone through and that’s why she was there. Our vision is that is that someday someone will be able to sit down at a table and say ‘I’m a survivor of sexual abuse; I’m a survivor of childhood sexual abuse; I’m a survivor of rape’, and not have the needle skip off the record and have the person sitting across from them not know what to say. Because it’s not what defines them, it’s simply something that happened to them and it’s not their fault and they don’t need to carry the shame. It’s an unjust stigma in the sense that the shame belongs to the perpetrator and not the victim.”
—
Peter Hermann, husband to Mariska Hargitay & co-founder of the Joyful Heart Foundation
(I loved this too much not to post. I think it’s good to balance some of the difficult posts on the blog with inspiring things.)
“For the first time in such a very long time, I was ready to begin again.”
—Claire Seeber, from Bad Friends (thanks, youme-atseven)
It is about time.
“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. but it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of every kind. it needs people who live well in their places. it needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. and these qualities have little to do with success as our culture has defined it.”
—David Orr (via m0llylove, free-wilderness) (via countydublin)
Yep!!
February 2012
7 posts
“
Don’t cry
—the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids’ flutter which says
we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life’s not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
” —E. E. Cummings, from “since feeling is first” (via the-final-sentence)
“Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant…”
—Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via yrie)
January 2012
12 posts
“You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn’t nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.”
—Anne Lamott
December 2011
10 posts
“My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.”
—Alice Hoffman
The More I See of Man, The More I Like Dogs. →
washingtonpost.com
More than 100 puppies rescued from a puppy mill in Arkansas arrived at Washington Animal Rescue League for care and, eventually, adoption.
“Well shit, where am I?”
Love After Love - Derek Walcott
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
My hair smells like a bonfire. Bonfires are genuine and that’s all I need.
“I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.” Dirk Benedict
“Inside each of us is a unique person resulting from millennia of environment and heredity; combined in a way that could never happen again and could never have happened before.” Gloria Steinman
