February 2012
12 posts
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The Purpose of Ankles
Once superfluous when crawling
Evolves into vital for walking
Beneath the confinement of skin
Lay meaty systems busied with work
Ligaments of Modernity
Connecting foundational bone to bone
While contemporary tendons
Fasten bone to muscle
And muscle to muscle
The necessary tension
Required of movement
Directionless
With a veiled sense of sight
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“When you read a great poem, you instantly notice that there’s a deep truth...”
– Reality Hunger David Shields
“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
– Franz Kafka (via martaunderthesea)
“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you...”
– Diane Arbus (1923-1971, USA) [via artchipel] (via rerylikes)
“Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There’s a strong streak of...”
– David Foster Wallace (via tarts) (via unicornology, sometimesagreatnotion) (via tothepersoninthebelljar) (via pinkeezy) (via libraryland)
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“Reality-based art is a metaphor for the fact that this is all there is, there...”
– David Shields Reality Hunger
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The Joy of Quiet - Pico Iyer →
refreshing and centering read:
“None of this is a matter of principle or asceticism; it’s just pure selfishness. Nothing makes me feel better — calmer, clearer and happier — than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of music. It’s actually something deeper than mere happiness: it’s joy, which the monk David Steindl-Rast describes as “that kind of happiness that...
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“I don’t mean that everything we think is what we truly feel or that only...”
– David Shields Reality Hunger
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“‘Learning how to think’ really means learning how to exercise some...”
– David Foster Wallace “This is Water”
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“The most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are...”
– David Foster Wallace
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My Love Affair With Creativity: Be Who You Really...
I have recently fallen deeply back in love with act of creating and this is a little scribbling about embracing the wonderful creative spirit that rests inside everyone.
Creativity is not as hard to harvest as its reputation makes it out to be. It stretches deep; penetrating right down to the inscription in every individuals’ DNA coding. The recipe is simple: just be yourself. The...
January 2012
26 posts
“The fact is, we can no longer tell someone’s financial reality by what they eat,...”
– - an amazing, amazing article on GOOD
Speaking as someone who, as an unpaid intern for ‘The Daily Show’ working long hours (privileged), pawned stereo equipment and jewelry just to eat, (poor) this covers everything I’ve wanted to say about being privileged and poor.
We need to stop judging people...
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“All parents want to do is drag one down to them, back to the old days from which...”
– Franz Kafka’s Letter to Felice on 21 November 1912
“Here is something to fight; and when I wake early I say to myself Fight, fight....”
– Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 11 October 1929 (via proustitute)
Out of my scrubs and into the city, pursing a dream to live a life filled with thinking&writing. #maybeimcrazy #modernistimagination
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The Purpose of Fingers
The knowing of feeling
Swallowed by nerve endings
Dwell in worlds of vibrations and pressures
A sensitive contingency
Distinguishing rough from smooth
Where soppy steam dehydrates
Unnoticed ridges of individuality
Alternating oval layers
Depress inward towards self
& poke outward against atmosphere
Leaving each dragging swipe raw
Eating the earth to keep for its own
&...
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The Purpose of Tears
Remembering pours onto pages
Like salty raindrops
Free falling from excretory ducts
Indeterminate in its nature
An ambiguous molecule composed of sorrow and elation
The struggle of release
Diffusely slicing time with words
Neurological impulses insist on stirring
Until emotions materialize into symbols
Urging to be read
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The Purpose of Hair
My embodied spirit tousles the wind
Fibrous filaments tangled
Unfolding threads extend from my mind
Traversing covert barriers between self & earth
Like spiny dendrites connecting thoughts
Swept and fettered by directions tugging gently
Twisting strands in unprecedented patterns
Elusive to all but the imagination
Each extension, a trace
Back to the burrowing follicles beneath my scalp
“I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty...”
– Sylvia Plath (via chewingpencils)
“It is not merely the likeness which is precious…but the association and the...”
–
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Epigraph from Vision in White by Nora Roberts
(via epigraphic)
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How Doctors Die →
Of course, doctors don’t want to die; they want to live. But they know enough about modern medicine to know its limits. And they know enough about death to know what all people fear most: dying in pain, and dying alone. They’ve talked about this with their families. They want to be sure, when the time comes, that no heroic measures will happen—that they will never experience, during their...
“To be separate as an ego is the base of all misery; to be one, to be flowing,...”
– Osho (via ninawilkins)
20 New Year’s Resolutions For 20-Somethings
socalfeminist:
It’s not too late to make resolutions! It really never is making goals for yourself is good and shouldn’t be tied down to the new year, also lists are fun. Jessie Rosen put this list of resolutions for twenty something year olds and I really like them and thought you might too.
Before you status update, Tweet, Tumble or Instagram, pause and say to yourself, “is it entirely...
“Television, in other words, has become able to capture and neutralize any...”
– David Foster Wallace E Unibus Pluram:
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“Being here is a kind of spiritual surrender. We see only what the others see....”
– Don DeLillo White Noise
the truth about antidepressants →
SSRIs can make some depressed people feel better; however, alcohol makes some shy people less shy, but that’s not enough evidence to say that shyness is caused by an alcohol imbalance. The truth is—and scientists have known this for quite some time—that serotonin levels are not associated with depression.
Researchers have used a variety of methods to test the serotonin imbalance theory of...
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“In our post-1950s, inseparable-from-TV association pool, brand loyalty really...”
– E Unibus Pluram David Foster Wallace
“It’s good to be free; for then you can sleep and let desire and malaise follow...”
– Ingmar Bergman, Images (via aclockwithouthands)
“Love is distinct from desire… Because its aim is not satisfaction, but being.”
– Jacques Lacan, Seminar I, trans. John Forrester (via proustitute)
“The pursuit of individual happiness has been acknowledged as a universal right....”
– John Berger, “Ways of Seeing” (pg 148)
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“chiding myself for imagining so conventionally.”
– - In America Susan Sontag
The Tangential: This Just In! →
thetangential:
Greek yogurt is the new feta cheese!
The environment is the new third world!
Polygamy is the new quintuplet family!
Gluten-free is the new low carb!
Microbrews are the new fine wine!
Kristin Wiig is the new Tina Fey!
The Hitler Youth is the new sexy bed head!
Dry shampoo is the new…
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New Year on Dartmoor
This is newness: every little tawdry Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar, Glinting and clinking in a saint’s falsetto. Only you Don’t know what to make of the sudden slippiness, The blind, white, awful, inaccessible slant. There’s no getting up it by the words you know. No getting up by elephant or wheel or shoe. We have only come to look. You are too new To want the world in a...
December 2011
33 posts
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“This willingness among critics and the media to accept and coherent proves far...”
– Janet Badia Sylvia Plath and the Mythology of Women Readers
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“My arguement is meant, rather, to suggest that the pervasiveness of an...”
– Janet Badia Sylvia Plath and the Mythology of Women Readers
I seriously just hate everybody right now
oh hello winter depression. I see you’ve snuck up on me again.
Too bad this yea I purchased a SMARTLAMP to ward you off.
Take that.
One teachers approach to preventing gender... →
mindbabies:
think4yourself:
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we...
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Boundaries
Boundaries are inventions of the imagination used to prevent sensory overload; their rigidity is an illusion. Some are put into place for good measure, but you don’t always have to stay confined in them.
“Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our...”
– Seneca (via mindbabies)
“Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is
to watch the year repeat its...”
– Anne Carson, from “The Glass Essay” (via proustitute)
