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life
Perhaps I am a Hassidic Jew by heart. The Hassid feels the weight and suffering of the world in a way that the world does not understand. The Hassid carries the weight of the world. I have come to understand this through reading "The Chosen," a novel by Chaim Potok. It is a beautiful novel.
I have come to relate to this through events that have ( Read more... ) -
too long
i explore. i find. i run. i digest. i run. i love. i find. i hope. i believe ( Read more... ) -
time
goes very quickly when you want it to stop altogether, and all but comes to a halt when you want to move through it quickly. i swear it has been hours since the clock struck 11:00; it has been fifteen minutes. yet last night was days ago. -
sleep
more and more i get less and less
it's a waste of time
how far can i push myself? -
baby steps
little, tiny ones. forward mostly. -
...on second thought...
turns out my favorite thing in the whole wide world is being awake at 5:00 in the morning. awesome. -
i like...
clean sheets, and pushups right before bed. -
ugly beauty, fortunes, stream of consciousness
the world is beautiful, but i am always looking up. whenever i think of beauty, i tend to think of things that are up. the clouds are beautiful. the sunset is beautiful. the trees. that mountain. that cliff. the stars. the moon. i tend to think, "up." in a january 27th entry, i wrote about looking at the ground and finding treasures. i have to ( Read more... ) -
25 things
1. When I was little (maybe four or five years old), I used to capture small creatures from my pre-school and bring them home with me. Mostly, I captured grasshoppers and caterpillers, but I also collected moths, butterflies, all sorts of bees, and worms. I must have thought that they didn't want to live in the city, so I was taking them home to ( Read more... ) -
three strange dreams
1. in this dream, i was entirely an observer. meaning i was not actually in the dream. i don't know if this is very common for me ( Read more... )