Well, I had mentioned a while ago that I was thinking about moving to a new journal location. Shake things up, start something new. ^^

So...I'll no longer be posting here. My new journal is also friends-only, so please comment (there) if you want to be added.

Thank you all for a wonderful two-point-five years!

New Journal:
ishkode_fyre

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Our self-expectations are so mundane!

I wonder, if people sat around and said, "When I grow up, I'm going to do things beyond anything you've ever dreamed!" then maybe it would happen.

Last night I had a conversation. It wasn't even like, a scintillating and witty repartee, but it opened my eyes to different ideas about myself and people in general, and our tendencies, and as calm and laid back and sometimes silent as it was--it was still the first thing on my mind in the morning and it made me feel good. That hasn't happened in ( Read more... )

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From PostSecret:


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We are each given the ability to choose, to make a hundred--or a thousand, or a million--choices every day ( Read more... )

Welcome to the fallout--
Welcome to resistance.
The tension is here
The tension is here
Between who you and who you could be--
Between how it is and how it should be--

I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor.
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened
Before.

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GIVE ME ADVENTURE.
Give me life.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Henry David Thoreau


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So it's time for another of my massive thank-you notes. For those of you who aren't familiar with the act, it's as follows:

( The Philosophy: Short & Travel-Sized for Your Convenience. )

I'm going through my Friends List and making some changes.

Who will be deleted?

If you haven't made more than one entry in more than two or three months, you're off my list unless you comment here indicating you still would like to interact. If you have made one or two entries in the last two or three months, you might still want to comment in ( Read more... )

Quotes from Lee Chang-rae's Native Speaker

It was clearly Kwang's Confucian training at work,
his secular religion of pure hierarchy,
his belief that everyone is at once
a noble and a servant and then just a man.
Its adherents know no hubris. Instead this:
you simply bow down before those who would honor you.
You honor them back.
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