FRIENDS ONLY

you will never untangle the circumstances that brought you to this moment
-leonard cohen

New friends are always welcomed. Just tell me a little something about yourself.

Just curious, on tumblr how do you actually credit people with a link, or reblog it onto your tumblr?

I discovered this website called goodreads.com. If you've never heard of it, it's definitely worth a look. You can vote on books, store the books you've read, and say what you are currently reading. You can also join groups where books are suggested and discussed.

Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. -Adrienne Rich, "When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-vision."

I don't know if I'm happy.

Do you think they place we live has any contributing factor in defining who we are?

It’s easy to live through,

But hard to bury-

Something akin to a long drive

Down a darkened road,

Slits of rain in front of the window

Ignited like fireflies by the glare

Of the headlights. The moments of

Silence that fill the car at 3am

With those life-altering thoughts

Which can’t be forgotten or

Erased. The squeal of tires,

Burned ( Read more... )

One of those fucking awful black days when nothing is pleasing and everything that happens is an excuse for anger. An outlet for emotions stockpiled, an arsenal, an armour. These are the days when I hate the world, hate the rich, hate the happy, hate the complacent, the TV watchers, beer drinkers, the satisfied ones. Because I know I can be all of ( Read more... )

 For An Album
- Adrienne Rich

Our story isn't a file of photographs
faces laughing under green leaves
or snowlit doorways, on the verge of driving
away, our story is not about women
victoriously perched on the one
sunny day of the conference,
nor lovers displaying love:

Our story is of moments
when even slow motion moved too fast
for the shutter of the camera ( Read more... )

 "Dip your pen into your arteries and write." -William Allen White