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"something not everyone knows how to love..."
i have discovered warsan shire. the unbearable weight of staying knocked a chip off my heart, but her poem for women who are 'difficult' to love glued it back. she is not difficult to love, this woman with such mastery of words at so young.
praise the soft belly ( Read more... ) -
why i actually love white's arthurian saga....
...parts like these:"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated ( Read more... ) -
"sunday morning's every day, for all i care...."
lighting candles to icons of discipline, this penitent slacker's mired in h&r block's sweetest dreams.
i could be complainy because i'm grounded until all of my back-taxes are completed.
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a little bit of idiocy
quiet moments this afternoon allowed for conversation to wander back through bits of nostalgia and cartoons our much smaller selves watched over towering mixing bowls of goopy, sugary cereal on saturday mornings. "beany and cecil" could be blamed for earworming me with the r-a-g-g-m-o-p-p 'raggmopp' song.
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omigodit'sfullofstars....
please allow for some fashion-squee.
monday was pretty spectacular. i got to participate in my first-ever fashion photo-shoot. i got dressed and painted for Gloomth and tried not to be too awkward in front of the camera. so. much. fun.
thursday, the pinkmoose and i plodded our way up to the room to interact with wearable art. we fawned over and ( Read more... ) -
music is the victim...
i'm procrastinating and hiding in books while seemingly everyone i know takes a turn at going to pieces. what is UP with this season?
this is a slightly different distraction.
so, i know i did that music meme six months ago. it's music, though, and making the rounds again. this time, pixie_riot threw me a bone-y M as my task under familiar instructions:
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"knew that somehow i'd find my way back..."
"The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible."
- Ray Bradbury last night in my dreams, i traveled to moscow in the most amazing submarine. it was elaborately designed like a cruise ship and i walked the decks amazed and nauseated by the sheer decadence of it all ( Read more... ) -
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too many thoughts, not enough brainpower to plot them down coherently ( Read more... ) -
a music meme!
❶ Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
❷ List (and upload, if you feel like it or are able to do so) 5 songs that start with that letter.
❸ Post them to your journal with these instructions
rincredible: "I task thee with songs starting with the letter W!"
and i had SO much fun i gave her three lists, not one.
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