July 2010
The Folks Inside
Inside you, boy,
There’s an old man sleepin’,
Dreamin’, waitin’ for his chance.
Inside you, girl,
There’s an old lady dozin’,
Wantin’ to show you a slower dance.
So keep on playin’,
Keep on runnin’,
Keep on jumpin’, ‘til the day
That those old folks
Down inside you
Wake up… and come out to play.
Shel Silverstein...
“You are in my mind, inbetween red lights and meetings, inbetween sips of coffee,...”
– Brenda Finne
You Are There
You are there.
You have always been
there.
Even when you thought
you were climbing
you had already arrived.
Even when you were
breathing hard,
you were at rest.
Even then it was clear
you were there.
Not in our nature
to know what
is journey and what
arrival.
Even if we knew
we would not admit.
Even if we lived
we would think
we were just
germinating.
To live is to be...
“To those we love best we say the least.”
– John Ray
“Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via)
“Sometimes we waste our words and we waste our moments, and we don’t take the...”
– Clay Evans (via)
Touching strangers →
Liz shares an amazing set of portraits by Richard Renaldi that bring strangers together, literally:
The premise of this work is simple: I meet two or more people on the street who are strangers to each other, and to me. I ask them if they will pose for a photograph together with the stipulation that they must touch each other in some manner. Touching Strangers encourages viewers to think about...
“We don’t want to be in a relationship to hear the words “I love you,” we want to...”
– John Mayer, Simple
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love...”
– Charles Bukowski (via)
“Vulnerability is the absence of cynicism. And the absence of cynicism is love.”
– Dan Pallotta, Misfit Entrepreneurs (via)
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used...”
– Arundhati Roy (via)
“The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its...”
– Iris Murdoch (via)
“Just promise me one thing, promise me that when you pick the boy you’re really...”
– One Tree Hill (via)
Let the deluge of quotations begin.
“I would rather do
absolutely nothing, than
something without you.”
– Tyler Knott Gregson
“Love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don’t, and...”
– Grey’s Anatomy (via)
Forty-ton whale lands on yacht →
Maria was telling me about this in the car yesterday and I was incredulous. What was the whale thinking?
Also, I’m incredibly impressed by how calm the yachters seem to be about the whole situation.
“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed,...”
– Audrey Hepburn
“It is the intensity of the longing that does all the work.”
– Kabir (via)
“The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much...”
– Alan Alda (via)
“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But, it...”
– David Orr (via)
“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska (via)
WatchGregory, on the Man’s Guide to Love:
Be long-suffering with people; you have to overlook people’s faults and not get offended easily. Love suffers long and is kind. You have to know and understand that people make mistakes, people aren’t perfect. You have to love them anyway, even when they’re unlovable.
Sound advice that I’ve tried to live by for years.
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows...”
– Bernard Meltzer
I write like Stephen King? →
I’ve run a bunch of text through the “I Write Like” tool, and two names keep popping up: Stephen King and Chuck Palahniuk. Apparently, I write like those guys — at least in style. Now I just have to try and get my quality up to their standards too, and I’m golden.
WatchMan proposes to girlfriend with graffiti mural. (via)
Not going to lie, this made me say “aaaw.” Granted, it’s not the way I’d propose, but it’s still cute nonetheless.
“What you feel only matters to you. It’s what you do to the people you say you...”
– The Last Kiss (via)
“Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of...”
– Miranda July (via)
“Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via)