December 2010
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2010 was very good to me. I have oscillated between extreme highs and the lowest lows. I have lost my mind and sanity a few times along the way; but after making a list and seeing all my accomplishments compiled just from this year truly blows me away. It’s hard to believe that the stranger who goes out and does all those things is me. The biggest accomplishment of this year is that I,...
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altruism = absurdity
“For so much sacrificed self the expected reward is security, and seeing that a reward is expected it cannot properly speaking be called self-sacrifice at all. It is in fact a kind of commerce …Women are self-sacrificing in direct proportion to their incapacity to offer anything but this sacrifice. They sacrifice what they never had: a self. The cry of the deserted woman, “What...
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finished the book :)
“Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them” - Germaine Greer
“The past only comes back when the present runs so smoothly that it is like the...”
– Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being (via awritersruminations)
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Just absolutely absurd and appalling and TRUE
“When hereditary has decayed and bureaucracy is the rule, so that the only riches are earning power and mobility, it is absurd that the family should persist in a the pattern of patriliny. It is absurd that people should live more densely than ever before while pretending that they are still in a cottage with a garden. It is absurd that people should pledge themselves for life when divorce...
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“Our society has created the myth of the broken home which is the source of so...”
– - Germaine Greer Family
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Barren Woman
Empty, I echo to the least footfall, Museum without statues, grand with pillars, porticoes, rotundas. In my courtyard a fountain leaps and sinks back into itself, Nun-hearted and blind to the world. Marble lilies Exhale their pallor like scent.
I imagine myself with a great public, Mother of a white Nike and several bald-eyed Apollos. Insread, the dead injure me attentions, and nothing can...
happpppppppppppy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think it should be celebrated!
:)
snowwww, reading, meraki, love, warmth, seclusion, family, homeeeeee<3!
doesn’t take much
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“Perfection is not just about control. It’s also about letting go.”
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nin & greer
“Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.” - Anais Nin
in regards to this^^^:
“It’s not hard to point out to the averagely perceptible human being that women have plenty of destructive kind of energy, but far fewer people see that woman’s destructiveness is creativity turned in upon itself by constant frustration. Nervous diseases, painful menstruation,...
“When you go out on a boat and look around, you feel as if the shore were moving....”
– Shōbōgenzō (via kategrice)
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“Women must learn how to question the most basic assumptions about feminine...”
– - Germaine Greer
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“We may safely assert that the knowledge that men can acquire of women, even as...”
– - John Stuart Mill
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space between strangers
Your eyes can’t anchor themselves to one place long enough to stare. They move like a lawn sprinkler across sentences. Tst. tst. tst. tsssssssst, till the end of the page. Lips quivering, noiselessly eating each word. Hands each holding one half of a whole stitched into a spine. A conversation transcending time, death, articulation; one that can’t be captured without ink. Something...
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Love Economics
love economics.
just a thought or two
Recently a popular topic is the state of the economy. Investing, saving, spending money WISLEY. But what I find interesting is the state of the heart and how people invest, save, and spend their love. We seem so careless with our hearts and don’t asses the magnitude of each investment we make in another human being. It seems like love is kind of like...
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Soliloquy of the Solipsist
I?
I walk alone;
The midnight street
Spins itself from under my feet;
When my eyes shut
These dreaming houses all snuff out;
Through a whim of mine
Over gables the moon's celestial onion
Hangs high.
I
Make houses shrink
And trees diminish
By going far; my look's leash
Dangles the puppet-people
Who, unaware how they dwindle,
Laugh, kiss, get drunk,
Nor guess that if I choose to blink
They...
I am one lucky girl :)
“I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than...”
– The Razor’s Edge, W. Somerset Maugham (via sssevy)
THIS IS AWESOME! →
3 and 20 are the worst numbers in the world.
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Context 1962 [2]
“Surely the great use of poetry is its pleasure— not its influence as religious or political propaganda. Certain poems and lines of poetry seem as solid and miraculous to me as church altars or the coronation of queens must seem to people who revere quite different images. I am not worried that poems reach relatively few people. As it is, they go surprisingly far — among...
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Context 1962
“I do not think a “headline poetry” would interest more people any more profoundly than the headlines. And unless the up-to-the-minute poem grows out of something closer to the bone than a general, shifting philanthropy and is, indeed, that unicorn-thing- a real poem- it is in danger of being screwed up as rapidly as the news sheet itself” - Sylvia Path
"Is there a help button here?"
goodbyes make me awkward. I become this little girl suddenly overwhelmed by the recognition of the impermanence of people. Everything I love about the person floods me and I feel like I will never see them again. It’s just this barrier, this word “good-bye” that instills this. If I went about my daily life and people slipped out without uttering those two compressed words I would...
enchanting:
Kalopsia, noun: the delusion that things are more beautiful than they are.
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This blew my mind, this is it, this is exactly what happens: “Another source is the (relative) freedom women have to draw on both brain hemispheres. Nondominant groups seem to be given a kind of offhand permission to exercise the socially nondominant hemisphere (in our case, right brain), or more rarely to achieve a balance of the two. Women of achievement may have a parallel, equal...
” The female mode of seeing holds to one side of a polarity (a “feminine” side) yet simultaneously that force which includes and transcends male nihilism and rationality. A constellated, integrative form. This vision contains feminine, transcends masculine, asserts female as synthesis”
“Then I think of you in bed,
your tongue half chocolate, half ocean,
of the...”
– Anne Sexton, “Eighteen Days Without You, December 11th” (via youveescaped)
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“Since the sixties I’ve recognized that my own oppression derived from...”
– - Sara Lennox
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“Stein says we no longer have the words people used to have so we have to make...”
– - Frances Jaffer
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Garden of Earthly Delights - Bosch →
here’s a small version, but you have to stare at the larger one
one application down
two to go!
“Let’s just state the obvious here: we’re seeing the end of the open internet...”
– Wikileaks And The End of the Open Internet (via azspot)
c o n t i n u eeeeeeeeee
After typing a horribly depressing rant, I back spaced the entire entry. The thought that elicited the pressure behind my finger on the delete key was: I will never accomplish anything if I don’t believe I can.
I believe I can.
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Study Shows You are More Likely to Killed By a Cop... →
The following ratios were compiled using data from 2004 National Safety Council Estimates, a report based on data from The National Center for Health Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau. In addition, 2003 mortality data from the Center for Disease Control was used.
— You are 17,600 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack
— You are 12,571 times more likely to...
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Word Weirding →
science:
You may be familiar with “semantic satiation”, the scholarly name for what happens when you repeat a word so many times it temporarily becomes meaningless to you. Equally interesting is what happens if, instead of repeating the word yourself, you listen to a tape of someone else repeating it. Here’s the result of one such experiment:
The subject listened to the repeated stimulus...
written out
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spitball
What I want fluctuates moment to moment. My desires are like molecules of spit; my unique DNA all spewing from my mouth landing on various places outside of myself. The only desires you can visibly track to see where they land are the ones that have conglomerated into a giant wad. They end up on some hard surface oozing and bubbling with clear consistency. Along the way to the hard surface other...
Dependence on Models →
fringeelements:
It’s taken for granted how much of our world is dependent on modeling.
The old “is it a vase or two faces” image illustrates this. Depending on your model, you can see either a vase in the black space, or two faces in the white space.
http://media.kelbymediagroup.com/layersmagazine/images/tutorials/design/photoshop/57/vase.jpg
Another example is the “young lady or witch”...