April 2011
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Memory #004
Along the highway, I asked abruptly, “do you believe in me?” You answered without hesitation: “Yes I do. Very much.”
March 2011
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palpability asked: everything here is freshly wonderful. long time stalker; I somehow never got the chance to message you.
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Dreamer with a science degree
The hours by the window have turned into something: I’ve classified all the birds by order, suborder, infraorder, superfamily, family, genus, & species.
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“God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears?...”
– Sylvia Plath
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I had the pleasure of watching filming on the set of J. Edgar today. It was a nice distraction, slipping into another time, another world.
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I have a very hard time focusing on the present. At any given moment my mind might have wandered off to a number of different times and places. It’s a troubling kind of time-travel. I am going to start practicing staying where I am. Please do let me know if you have any remedies.
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For some time I thought I loved you out of weakness (In hindsight, I did. Very much so).
You’ve created something untameable in me that neither of us can stop. My love will barrel around time and the earth until it finds what it wants or destroys everything.
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Bald Eagle Nest Cam →
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When I was a child I believed that after I died I’d have a crown of jewels and a palace on a street paved with gold.
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Dalai Lama’s 18 rules for living
At the start of the new millennium the Dalai Lama apparently issued eighteen rules for living. 1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. 2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson. 3. Follow the three Rs: 1. Respect for self 2. Respect for others 3. Responsibility for all your actions....
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Crawling into warm bed after long days, sick & brimming with thoughts. Letting my mind linger with Le Garçon a little longer than before: less pain, new beautiful flashbacks, & still a small, worrisome note of caution.
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Driving south with shaking hands
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Watch
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“A human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind,”
– Harvard
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Today I sat, the youngest by far, among a small collection of wise and wealthy women. They welcomed me and I shone. Suddenly I became a mystery even to myself.
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“Morning is my favorite time of day. It’s like everything’s starting out fresh...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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Memory #002
I pine for Summer afternoons with Chelsea at the wine bar: reds for me & whites for her, warm bread with oil & vinegar, and pouring our hearts out week after week under the golden light that filtered in the old windows.
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Memory #001
The three of us sat in the dark, smoking hand-rolled cigarettes on the screened porch and listening to Edgar Allen Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart, thunder rumbling away in the night.
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I am going to start cataloging my more beautiful and important memories here. I hope you don’t mind. I never want to risk forgetting them again.
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Wonderful things today: finding my dad playing moonlight sonata on the baby grand he built, the magnolia tree starting to bloom, spying on giant birds through old binoculars, sushi, hand massages, making plans with Le Garçon (!), & seeing the mountain goats again next week.
Forget what I said about not wanting to come out of Winter’s hibernation: I’m ready for sunlight, flowers,...
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“I can’t be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.”
– Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
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Baby it’s you (Beatles cover) - Jack Tatum...
“Beware the Ides of March”
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How to Live Magically
let your hair grow long and unruly ✦ wear flower crowns ✦ tie ribbons on your wrists ✦ wears bells on your ankles ✦ wear a key to your heart around your neck ✦ lie in fields of wildflowers ✦ climb trees and read books in them ✦ hand write letters to friends ...
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The Ink Spots - If I Didn’t Care
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The Cardigans - Lovefool (acoustic)
forestgirl asked: Your blog is so cute!
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