May 2012
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apoetreflects:
“When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: ‘It is the trade entering his [or her] body.’ Each time that we have some pain to go through, we can say to ourselves quite truly this it is the universe, the order and beauty of the world, and the obedience of creation to God that are entering our body. After that,...
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When you do not speak, the thousand stars that lay upon your tongue slide back...
– Tama Kieves (via nirvikalpa)
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surpriseofmoderntimes:
mrgolightly:
Ana Gasteyer does a better Nicki Minaj than Nicki Minaj.
Love Ana.
Supergay!
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Happy Birthday Biggie Smalls and Robert Creeley.
When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting...
– _Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye. (via brightlywound)
(via livinginthehalflight)
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A Poet Reflects: “Not a single thing do I remember... →
apoetreflects:
“Not a single thing do I remember from the first trip but this: the sense of the place, the savor of the genie-soul of the place which every place has or else is not a place. I could have been wrong: it could have been nothing of the sort, not the memory of a place but the memory of being a child….
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"Intimacy"
“Intimacy” by Paisley Rekdal
How horrible it is, how horrible that Cronenberg film where Goldblum’s trapped with a fly inside his Material Transformer: bits of the man emerging gooey, many-eyed; bits of the fly worrying that his agent’s screwed him– I almost flinch to see the body later that’s left its fly in the corner, I mean the fly that’s left its body,...
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keep it real: Dear Kyle, →
littlekyle:
figurativelyspoken:
You are gonna love it here. Because I do and it’s wonderful and it’s 82 EVERYDAY.
Hope your weekend wasn’t too hectic with moms day today.
I’m worn out from hiking and sunshine and beach time. :)
See you soon!
Love, Jess
Jess,
I am glad you…
CUGS, SPF 50 or bust! But really—Beckie and I have done the math, and island time is roughly four...
I think people are often quite unaware of their inner selves, their other...
– Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 150, Jeanette Winterson (leopoldgursky)
I grew up hard and am still hard and I don’t care. I did not choose this face or...
– Margaret Cho (via bigfatfeminist)
Margaret Cho is awesome.
And yeah, it’s a big issue for marginalized groups to feel attractive. WoC in particular have the same issues as white women in that they’re seen as incapable of leadership, punished for being too emotional, punished for being not...
Dear Kyle,
figurativelyspoken:
You are gonna love it here. Because I do and it’s wonderful and it’s 82 EVERYDAY.
Hope your weekend wasn’t too hectic with moms day today.
I’m worn out from hiking and sunshine and beach time. :)
See you soon!
Love, Jess
Jess,
I am glad you are adjusting to your new and temperate climate.
St. Louis sends its fondest regards. Please respond with evidence of your...
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