EVERYONE should come to to josh's house (in lakeland) this new years eve, ready to party ( Read more... )

it's hard to know just how to handle a holiday that reminds you so much of all those who you have lost, when those that you have lost still mean so much to you, and still effect you so deeply. because sometimes the realities of those losses just hit too hard, and are simply too much to try and deal with.... and sometimes, even though i know there ( Read more... )

"...this is what it means to be an adventurer in our day.... because everything around us says no you cannot do this, you cannot live without that, nothing is useful unless it's in service to money, to gain, to stability ( Read more... )

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"life, and the processes and actions that make it up will always be one in the same, and they simply cannot be separated. if you are continually giving your processes to things that mean nothing to you- essentially, these are the things that you are giving your life to as well. these are the things that comprise and define our existences. ( Read more... )

it's such a wierd thing, really. when everything that you have been building towards and hoping for, and everything that you have right in front of you and within arms reach, become one and the same, and everything that you've wanted to do for so long become the things that you actually are doing and are about to be doing.... and it's an even ( Read more... )

"you should see them next door, with the transmission on the dining room table, todd and ted rebuilding it. and rebuilding it because it's so damn interesting, their eyes with a real joy in them. like little kids, i guess you could say. kids with a new toy. exept i think this is not kid like at all, joy and exitement and wonder- not kid qualities ( Read more... )

"it is like one of caty's farmers market customers said. the customers, they seem to have known more about death and how to be supportive than anyone else did. one of them brought pictures. another said this: 'it is going to be hard. hard for a really long time. long after everyone else has forgotten all about it, it's still going to be really hard ( Read more... )

last night dillinger four and some of my best friends in the world made me feel like i was 14 all over again, and in the best sort of way. in the sort of way that makes everything feel so urgent and new and exciting, and takes every bit of rust that's built up over time, strips it away and makes it all shine so incredibly brightly, all over again. ( Read more... )

"...(and) for this reason the sadness too passes: the new thing in us, the added thing, has entered into our heart, has gone into it's inmost chamber and is not even there anymore- it is already in our blood. and we do not learn what it was. we could easily be made to believe that nothing has happened, and yet we have changed, as a house changes ( Read more... )