May 2012
20 posts
"Do you know why I want you to be right about...
at first, I laughed at this. but then I thought about it and realized how great it really is. I do want to be a better person and it’s nice to know other people want that, not only in my life, but in their lives, too.
two months, eleven days.
then life might possible be sane again.
exciting things and other things.
I feel like things might finally be getting back on track. Or more, they might actually be getting on the track in the first place. I’m picturing that level in Donkey Kong where you sit in the train cart and ride through the tracks but the tracks aren’t connected and you have to jump from track to track and get all the bananas you can. For the past few months, I’ve felt like I...
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it.
Prone to leave the God I love.
Here’s my heart, Lord, take and seal it;
seal it for thy courts above.
I am bound for the Kingdom, won’t you come with me?
Yes, I am bound for the Kingdom, won’t you come with me?
Hallelujah, we sing.
Hallelujah, we sing.
“and my love is yours but your love’s not mine. so i’ll go but we know i’ll see you down the line. and we’ll hate what we’ve lost but we’ll love what we find. and i’m feeling fine, we’ve made it to the coastline. wake up to the sound of your fleeting heart. wake up to the sound of your fleeting heart. when you go, what you leave is a...
“She said she had married a guy, and he was just a guy. He wasn’t going to make all her problems go away, because he was just a guy. And that freed her to really love him as a guy, not as an ultimate problem solver. And because her husband believed she was just a girl, he was free to really love her too. Neither needed the other to make everything okay. They were simply content to have...
“And all of these things, these experiences of grief, they don’t tell you about them. They don’t tell you that, at the end of the day, all you can think is that grief isn’t a wall that comes crashing down on you all at once like you expected. Instead, it’s a wall whose bricks fall (bit by bit, piece by piece) and bruise you and break you and beat you down, slowly.”
From Katherine...
April 2012
28 posts
WatchThis is wonderful.
one foot in front of the other.
The past five days were absolutely wonderful. I realized how continually blessed I am and how thankful I am for such encouraging, supportive, and wise friends and family.
I was able to celebrate Hannah’s birthday with some of my best friends, drinking and dancing in Austin. I drove six hours to Odessa for Rachael and Collin’s wedding and had such a beautiful conversation with...
30 Things Before Your 30.
By 30, you should have …
1. One old boyfriend you can imagine going back to and one who reminds you of how far you’ve come.
2. A decent piece of furniture not previously owned by anyone else in your family.
3. Something perfect to wear if the employer or man of your dreams wants to see you in an hour.
4. A purse, a suitcase, and an umbrella you’re not ashamed to be seen carrying.
5. A...
“Then I said, “Do you think it makes my hips look too big?”
and she said to me slowly, “Annie? I really don’t think you have that kind of time.”
And I don’t think you have that kind of time either. I don’t think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won’t be good enough at it, and I don’t think you have time to...
“I stop myself from weeping as I looked at her. I am not ready to not see her grin again, I am not ready to never hear her speak and laugh, I am not ready to tell my baby sister that our mother is in heaven with the angels. I am not ready to let go of listening to her advice, I am far from ready to stop texting her “I love you so much” when I wake up, throughout the day, and before I go to...
10 things I know I want at 22.
1. I want to be a woman. I want to be classy and wholesome and quiet and I want to think before I speak. 2. I want to be respected for my intelligence, gentleness, humor, and kindness. 3. I want to have close friends and I want to genuinely like everyone without being a people pleaser or feeling obligated to do certain things or be a certain way. 4. I want to be independent but also able to rely...
“Find me now. Before someone else does.”
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (via talisman)
The Alamo Drafthouse Is Coming to NYC's Upper West... →
this.
“My sister got married, my best friend, everybody got married, and I was nowhere in the ballpark. Like completely, are you kidding? How do people get married? I totally did not get this. First of all, how do meet somebody that you like, and second of all, how could you possibly know you want to be with him for the rest of your life? It was so remote a possibility. Also because I was so...
“I went on to flickr and it was just thousands of pieces of shit, and I just...”
– Stephen Shore (via nevver)
“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through...”
– Miranda July (via talisman)
