January 2011
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-30) →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-23) →
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I’ve never felt like a plastic bag
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Little things that make me happy
my happy songs playlist on iTunes (Phoenix, Frightened Rabbit, She & Him, Mumford & Sons, Freelance Whales, Jonsi, Passion Pit, The Temper Trap, etc.)
when I see someone in class pick up another person’s pencil (especially if they don’t really know each other)
when it rains and I’m in the car and I look outside the window and I see all the cars with their windshield...
“‘But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Tuesday 9:00 AM
A man standing at the bus stop reading the newspaper is on fire Flames are peeking out from beneath his collar and cuffs His shoes have begun to melt
The woman next to him wants to mention it to him that he is burning but she is drowning Water is everywhere in her mouth and ears in her eyes A stream of water runs steadily from her blouse
Another woman stands at the bus stop freezing...
Do you write in your books? →
I know there are some people that want to keep books perfect and won’t even bend the spine. I know because I used to be like that. But then while reading Kafka On The Shore a few years ago, I kept coming across these great passages that I somehow wanted to remember but felt that I would forget, so I started highlighting, and writing little comments, and for me, it’s become almost this...
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
– Virginia Woolf
“A huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it...”
– David Foster Wallace
“If you’re afraid you can’t write, the answer is to write. Every sentence you...”
– Richard Rhodes
“It was the kind of love you can only feel toward someone you don’t...”
– Chuck Klosterman
2011
Life’s been really good this past week. I don’t really know what changed, but I’ve been listening to more upbeat songs and singing along, I’ve been writing a lot more, drawing with crayons, looking more people in the eyes. I’m trying not to be scared of the things that hemmed me in before, I’m trying to be okay with being vulnerable. I can feel my heart beat in...
“When you’re young, you always feel that life hasn’t yet begun...”
– Douglas Coupland
“Somehow she knew that you didn’t get many moments like this in your life:...”
– Neil Gaiman
“I think about how there are certain people who come into your life, and leave a...”
– Sara Zarr
“But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you...”
– Haruki Murakami
“I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not...”
– James Kavanaugh
“Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small...”
– Osho
