July 2011
2 posts
June 2011
2 posts
lions and lambs
I made a to do list today and it stressed me out so I’m pretending it didn’t happen
I’m trying to get to the point where everything is spiritual
I think in order to do that I have to change my personality, and my habits, among other things
I don’t want to lead a habitual life but I want good habits
I want everything in my life to flow in a way that I don’t have to...
May 2011
4 posts
Just off the Highway to Rochester, Minnesota
Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass.
And the eyes of those two Indian ponies
Darken with kindness.
They have come gladly out of the willows
To welcome my friend and me.
We step over the barbed wire into the pasture
Where they have been grazing all day, alone.
They ripple tensely, they can hardly contain their happiness
That we...
I will love you with no regard to the actions of our enemies or the jealousies of actors. I will love you with no regard to the outrage of certain parents or the boredom of certain friends. I will love you no matter what is served in the world’s cafeterias or what game is played at each and every recess. I will love you no matter how many fire drills we are all forced to endure, and no matter what...
April 2011
3 posts
March 2011
7 posts
“You gotta get different.”
– Cab driver in Chicago
10 Ways to Love
1. Listen without interrupting (Proverbs 18)
2. Speak without accusing (James 1:19)
3. Give without sparing (Proverbs 21:26)
4. Pray without ceasing (Colossians 1:9)
5. Answer without arguing (Proverbs 17:1)
6. Share without pretending (Ephesians 4:15)
7. Enjoy without complaint (Philippians 2:14)
8. Trust without wavering (Corinthians 13:7)
9. Forgive without punishing (Colossians 13:7)
...
poetic things
the way parachutes in the sky look like jellyfish in the water
the way putting a spoon under the faucet makes the water go out in a fan
the way your spine feels when you slide out of a chair
the sound of your mother putting ice cream back in the container and how it makes me want to cry
the quiznos guy watching the girl in purple heels
mirrors vs windows
unfinished vs finished books
my...
“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”
– William Shakespeare (via quote-book)
February 2011
3 posts
“I don’t have time to maintain these regrets when I think about the way he...”
– David Crowder
“Forgiveness is accepting that the past cannot be changed; that it is what it is.”
One day I’ll give birth to a tiny baby girl and when she’s born she’ll scream and I’ll make sure she never stops. I will kiss her before I lay her down and will tell her a story so she knows how it is and how it must be for her to survive. I’ll tell her about the power of water, the seduction of paper, the promise of gasoline, and the hope of blood. I’ll teach her to shave her eyebrows and mark...
January 2011
2 posts
music 365 →
dontmakelists:
So here it is then. Year one of Don’t Make Lists in full, the best tracks of 2000-2009.
#1 - David Thomas Broughton - Ever Rotating Sky
#2 - LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
#3 - UGK - International Player’s Anthem (I Choose You)
#4 - Michael Giacchino…
December 2010
5 posts
“Silence expresses the inexpressible. It is loud, and it is awkward, it is full,...”
– Aldous Huxley
“Make It Up” - Joe Purdy
no advent like the present
November 2010
11 posts
a threefold cord is not quickly broken
so a braid does not fail
then three friends become
the cumbersome ratio two-to-one
love factoring favoritism
a tip of the scale of the universe,
but the rule of threes works:
in fairy tales, chairs, jokes, wishes, epic books
for counting to start and making mistakes
for achieving the “charm” and winning a race
for religion, math, color, life by the phase
the format of our...
Gray or Blue
I can make a hole in the roof
Also known as heaven
For you as a release of the
Pressure in your head
So you can trade it out for stars
And we can ride the airy waves
And you can still sleep
I can give wings to all the pieces of things
We broke on the floor
Mexican soda bubbled to the top
Pink within green
We can fix this and bottle it up
Too much to breathe,
Too much to taste
I can...
tasteful
I Love the Rain Most - Joe Purdy
Seaside - The Kooks
Night Train - Amos Lee
Jezebel - Iron and Wine
3 Hours - Nick Drake
14 Days - Arkitekt
9 Crimes - Damien Rice
Worn Out Shoes - Joe Purdy
Loud As Hope - Iron and Wine
Broken Arrows - José Gonzalez
All Dressed Up - Damien Rice
Mykonos - Fleet Foxes
Breakdown More - Eric Hutchinson
40 Day Dream - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes
...
“We should close his eyes.”
Luna, who was huddled in one of Fleur’s coats,...”
– Chapter 24: The Wandmaker, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (via yerawizardharry)
have you ever seen the lights on cars on the...
“I’m going to eat you alive, she said.
No, you’re not, he said,...”
in the dust in your room
come set yourself at ease
it’s just this secret i can’t wait to keep
it just doesn’t make sense, but for you
it works
good thing for me-
together always goes with forever
you could tell me i’m a real man
but you try to look your best
and i wanna die. wouldn’t that be all right?
“Thou must be used to the business of adventures.”
– Don Quioxte
exposition of a true story
His face meets hers and she hits him like she’s never hit anyone before because she never has.
As the credits roll, I consider all the things I could say. I would have told her that anyone who steals your phone and holds it hostage in his filthy closet-sized room so that he can get a kiss or something more does not deserve your Biology help, that he does not offer friendship, that he needs to be...
October 2010
2 posts
Write one leaf describing what it means to be cold...
I think about reptiles and unprecedented murder.
They might go together. Nothing ever happens in warm blood. Hot blood has a different connotation. Hot blooded people, cold blooded reptilia. It’s creepy. The temperature of blood says a lot about you, I suppose.
How does a reptile have cold blood? How can anyone live like that? If I remembered how biology works I’d understand some of...
September 2010
3 posts
i love the rain most
today was one of those kinds of days where you want it to rain rain rain all day because you want someone to cry for you and it would be best if it was the sky.
August 2010
19 posts
laura veirs
July flame
Fiery kind
Will always
Lead me through the night
July flame
Sweet summer peace
High up in the breath
Just out of reach
Can I call you mine?
July flame
I’m seeing fireworks
They’re so beautiful
Tell me why it hurts
July Flame
Ashes of a secret heart
Falling in my lemonade
Unsinkable thirsting in the backyard
Can I call you mine?
do you think we like to take our orders from...
I’m busy. There is something going on every day of every week. I know how I got into this mess but I can’t remember what possessed me to get there. Sometimes it’s bigger than me, and sometimes it’s not. I have lots of worries that are so petty I don’t like to mention them. AKA write them down. I don’t mind talking about them with others, but I don’t really...
“Be of good comfort… and play the man! We shall this day light such a...”
– Bishop Latimer
