February 2012
9 posts
Today I stood on the brink of a panic attack. I climbed straight onto the rail, and I stood, waiting for the breeze to topple me over so that my heels could reach my head. I felt that, if a leaf were to land on the smallest of hairs, I would spin, be tossed into the continuous rhythm of sounds, never to find the trees or where they touch the sky.
And as I stood there, praying into the moments...
“Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights...”
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
That awkward moment when a college acceptance feels less exciting because your mother just told you that you’re a crappy daughter.
Meh. 200 miles and a dozen oranges later, I'm...
“Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer (via word-collector)
I get so angry. I get so upset and tense and frustrated when people use God as a scapegoat to their own ignorance, when people are so shallow and judgemental and hypocritical that they’d rather make misinformed assertions than open their mind to a changing world, an evolving world, a broadening world.
Prop 8 went through the 9th Circuit today. The courts held the decision that the Prop...
