The Mind Should Be a Thing That Works

"[And because I finally woke up to that whole realization much too late—the realization that life..."

Wed, 23 May 2012 14:01:55 -0400

“[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)

"What I learned then sustains me through every sorrow: it’s the believer who keeps looking for..."

Thu, 10 May 2012 19:05:49 -0400

“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)

Hugging trees today. What are you doing this earth day?

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:20:27 -0400

Hugging trees today. What are you doing this earth day?

The shortest horror story ever:

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:14:04 -0400

kkiirraa:

President Santorum.

"My wife and I were at a dinner in Washington DC earlier this year - it was a cancer event - and this..."

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:09:04 -0400

“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."

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:05:35 -0400

“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..."

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:33:47 -0400

“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!!

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turnonred: Getting my outrage out through design. Thanks,...

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:46:43 -0500

turnonred:

Getting my outrage out through design.

Thanks, Allie!

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Galactic. Lundi Gras, 2012. Tipitina’s. New Orleans,...

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 02:10:46 -0500

Galactic. Lundi Gras, 2012. Tipitina’s. New Orleans, Louisiana.

"Don’t cry —the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids’ flutter which says we are for..."

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:26:12 -0500

“

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..."

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:16:17 -0500

“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)

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Interesting. From “Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s...

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:43:56 -0500

Interesting.

From “Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.”

Istanbul, Turkey. I will be there in 142 days.

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:57:53 -0500

Istanbul, Turkey. I will be there in 142 days.

Mmmm.

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:49:43 -0500

Mmmm.