February 2012
195 posts
“Now loss, cruel though it may be, can have no effect on possession; it ends it,...”
– Rainer Marie Rilke (on cats, no less!) Poetry is the best consolation.
“Oh and night: there is night, when a wind full of infinite
space
gnaws at our...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
Also, dear everyone I know:
Right now it is hard for me to do a lot of communication things. I can log onto my facebook here, but I can’t do anything (read messages, update status, etc.) from there. So if you would like to get in contact with me, for now please email me: caitlinjeanhannah (at) gmail (dot) com
“The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the...”
– John Schaar (via heartmindspirit)
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Tomorrow I am going to sit on a plane for 20 hours. Before that I will sit in an airport for ~3 hours. After being on the 20 hour plane, I will sit in an airport for another 8 hours.
Maybe Louis CK has gotten to me, but don’t really give a shit that I will be “in transit” for roughly 34 hours. In reality, this is the easiest thing I’m going to do. This is the best part! I...
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Incomplete Manifesto For Growth →
iwritewordsgood:
Bruce Mau’s advice for approaching projects, edited by me to make it a faster read.
1. Be willing to grow. Experience events and let them change you.
2. Forget good. Good is a known quantity. We all agree on good. It isn’t necessarily good. If you stick to good you’ll never have growth.
3. Process matters more than outcome. When outcome drives process we go where we already...
“Every time we make a choice, we play a part in forming a new version of the...”
– Bodhipaksa, Living as a River
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You guys I have to take BART to SFO on Monday and I have tons of luggage so I’m slightly nervous does anyone have any advice/nerve quelling knowledge?
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
– Oscar Wilde (via mmementomori)
scarlettshaney:
As soon as you start guessing what someone else wants rather than what you want, it’s false. I think you should always make things for you. Imagine the world if everybody did! It’d be such an exciting place.
- Leith Clark.
People don’t need help being selfish. They need help being truly selfish.
“It is… unfair to ask a woman to leave aside her personal experience and discuss...”
– Melissa McEwan (via earlyfrost)
Valentine's Day:
Also happens to be my last full day with my boyfriend for 6+ months. It’s somehow quite fitting.
(Did I mention that ‘We Don’t Celebrate’?)
“There is a definite prejudice towards men who use femininity as part of their...”
– RuPaul (via okamarama)
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New trick my brain likes to play on me: Anytime you read “period piece,” “period romance,” etc. think of menstrual blood, not history.
“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to...”
– Osho
(via omnious)
Watchyellowbird:
kaligus:
iswearthesaintsmiled:
Awesome! I wonder how much this cost them?
“Fun can obviously change behavior for the better”
“Power, as I understand it, is not static or monolithic. It is contested and...”
– From a spnakin’ new guest blog series at Bitch Media on sex work/sex workers. Looking forward to more. (via kjarktooth)
“The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science...”
– Raymond Thornton Chandler (via thenatureofdaylight)
rcms:
I’m always sad to hear about another friend making the pilgrimage to New York, finally succumbing to the idea that it’s the only place to be legitimate, the only place to be real. I still believe in California, even though it has always been a myth.
The idea of “places to be legitimate” is so good
