July 2009
Ray LaMontagne — Let It Be Me (via)
There comes...
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
– Robert Frost (via)
Same thing.
“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “What’s the first thing you say to yourself?”
“What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?”
“I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?” said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully.
“It’s the same thing,” he...
“A friend is someone who knows the words to your heart, and can sing along when...”
– Unknown (via)
The rabbit
The rabbit has a charming face;
Its private life is a disgrace.
I really dare not name to you
The awful things that rabbits do;
Things that your paper never prints —
You only mention them in hints.
They have such lost, degraded souls
No wonder they inhabit holes;
When such depravity is found
It only can live underground.
Anonymous
“There are two types of people—those who come into a room and say, ‘Well, here I...”
– Frederick L Collins (via)
“Girls like Summer invariably serve as combination muse/object of obsession,...”
– Doree Shafrir, Indie Dream Girls
“I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, ‘Do not worry. You...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via)
Hemingway, despite his many personal indiscretions, is one of my favorite writers and a constant inspiration. Happy birthday.
Starbucks smiles.
Some people wear their heart on their sleeve. Me, I wear my mood on my face. (Well, yeah, I wear my heart on my sleeve too.)
I woke up this morning feeling unsettled. My sleep had been restless and the sky was overcast and there was no sun pouring through my window; the little rest I did get was plagued with troublesome dreams.
A scalding-hot shower helped shake off my initial morning blues,...
“There is no distance
in this life or the next that
could keep me from you.”
– Tyler Knott Gregson
Lost love letter reunites couple after 16 years →
It’s no surprise I’m a sucker for love letters, or all letters and hand-written correspondence actually. These kinds of stories just warm my heart.
Washington DC Tops List of Riskiest Driving Cities →
Yet another reason why I don’t own a car in this city, and don’t plan to any time soon.
Partly cloudy. →
A stranger named Richard caused me to stop this Sunday morning and stare up at the sky. I’m so glad that he did.
“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
“Every time you sniff and say somebody has “too much free time,” the...”
– Merlin Mann
“It is all about love, about people in our lives that not only accept who we are...”
– Jaime Woo
“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Dans mes rêves, je t’embrasse fort, si fort que mon coeur en est brisé de...”
– Tina Lee
“Too often the time spent fearing and putting off something is way more...”
– Amber Ellis
“Great teachers don’t make you fall in love with them, they make you fall...”
– kelzor
“Take time to tell someone you actually enjoy them. Not just love, not just like,...”
– Meg Fowler
“You know what I miss? Heartbreak. I miss having an excuse for being slovenly and...”
– Me
“Falling in love during a dream makes waking up the worst kind of hurtful.”
– Lee Dale
“When will meteorologists finally admit that the only difference between partly...”
– Anil Dash
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via)
“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live...”
– Peace Pilgrim (via)
“I’ve never really spent time with a group of men. Boys, certainly, but not...”
– I’m Tamie, 16 and on strike