December 2011
25 posts
roses are red
violets are red
tulips are red
shit my gardens on fire
“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”
– Emily Brontë
Ten Rules for Being Human
1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s yours to keep for the entire period.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, “life.”
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the...
The First Dream
The Wind is ghosting around the house tonight and as I lean against the door of sleep I begin to think about the first person to dream, how quiet he must have seemed the next morning as the others stood around the fire draped in the skins of animals talking to each other only in vowels, for this was long before the invention of consonants. He might have gone off by himself to sit on a rock and...
“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts...”
– Bertrand Russell
“Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is...”
– Ivan Turgenev
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
– Mark Twain