The Perfect Life

...: a love letter to self

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:34:12 +0100

do not worry
about ending up alone
because someday
someone will fall for you
like you’ve been falling for strangers on the bus
and the way people look when they think no one is watching
and the sprinkling of freckles on shoulders
for years
someone is going to know that you hate iced tea
and…

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Sat, 18 May 2013 22:13:43 +0100

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Fri, 17 May 2013 17:40:55 +0100

explore-blog: In his fantastic SVA commencement address on the...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:39:28 +0100

explore-blog:

In his fantastic SVA commencement address on the false division between “high” and “low” culture, critic Greil Marcus adds to history’s finest definitions of art.

mattcaplin: I’ve never had any of my work made into a .gif...

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:55:34 +0100

mattcaplin:

I’ve never had any of my work made into a .gif before! Amazing!

"The now is our self. We are not present in the now. We are the now. The now is not a container that..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:26:04 +0100

“The now is our self. We are not present in the now. We are the now. The now is not a container that contains our self along with everything else. It is our self, eternal presence.”

- Rupert Spira (via colordesignlife)

oohtheyhavenibbles: I JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT GLOSTER CANARIES AND I’M GONNA CRY LOOKIT THEM THEY...

Sun, 12 May 2013 21:28:25 +0100

oohtheyhavenibbles:

I JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT GLOSTER CANARIES AND I’M GONNA CRY LOOKIT THEM

THEY HAVE BOWLCUTS

BOWLCUTS

LOOK AT THAT SMUG LITTLE FUCKER WITH HIS FUCKING BOWLCUT

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Sun, 12 May 2013 20:00:21 +0100

Library Slide

Sun, 12 May 2013 16:43:48 +0100

Library Slide

kevinruss: Whipple mt from mt wrightson on Flickr.

Sun, 12 May 2013 16:35:41 +0100

kevinruss:

Whipple mt from mt wrightson on Flickr.

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Wed, 08 May 2013 13:26:32 +0100

"Each time I’m asked to tell about myself, I find myself starting the same way: “My name is Kelsey..."

Mon, 06 May 2013 19:59:21 +0100

“

Each time I’m asked to tell about myself, I find myself starting the same way: “My name is Kelsey and I’m nineteen..”
but what I’d really like to say is:
“My name means island of the ships but once
I found a translation that said I’m a burning shipwreck-
not a burning ship but a ship that has caught fire
after the wreckage and well, I’d say that’s more fitting.”

I’ve learned that people don’t have time for about me’s.
They need two things: a name and an indication you’re someone special.

The doctors, they want facts not details.
“I broke my leg when I was three, it’s a funny story actually-“
The right or the left?
Conversation over.

The teachers, they want interests, hobbies.
You’re sad, yes, but what do you like to do?

The adults are a spew of questions.
What school do you go to? What classes are you taking?
What do you plan on becoming? Got a boyfriend?
No, stop.

People my own age are the worst.
“I’m planning on an English degree with a concentration in creative writing.”
Yeah, aren’t we all. So how many times have you, you know,
done it?

I’m pulled apart, my interests travelling highway 2
my goals at a stop light at traffic hour,
my medical history on a billboard for the world to see.
But what about me?

Where’s the chance to say,
“I hang on to fistfuls of poetry like loose change in my pockets,
and I keep waiting for the day that the world turns upside down
so I can swim with the stars.
I’m not afraid of darkness, it’s a loneliness I can empathize with it.
It’s the blackholes like cigarette burns inside of me that get troublesome.
I walk through graveyards and read the dashes between years,
each a story I’ll never know. Sometimes I create my own.”

No wonder none of us know who we are anymore.

”

- Kelsey Danielle, “I Was Told to Write an About Me and This is What Happened” (via commovente)

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Mon, 06 May 2013 19:36:25 +0100

digbicks: Kousuke Matsuki

Mon, 06 May 2013 19:36:11 +0100

digbicks:

Kousuke Matsuki

dirktier: i’m basically “pro-do whatever you want as long as you’re enjoying yourself and not...

Mon, 06 May 2013 19:20:55 +0100

dirktier:

i’m basically “pro-do whatever you want as long as you’re enjoying yourself and not hurting other people”

conveys: baby

Mon, 06 May 2013 19:20:30 +0100

conveys:

baby

"When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more..."

Mon, 06 May 2013 19:12:44 +0100

“When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.”

- (via anti-teachings)

a-b-n-o-r-m-a-l-i-t-y: Snow Cherries from France on We Heart It...

Mon, 06 May 2013 19:11:50 +0100

a-b-n-o-r-m-a-l-i-t-y:

Snow Cherries from France on We Heart It - http://weheartit.com/entry/49930513/via/unfamiliar_abnormality

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self...."

Mon, 06 May 2013 19:07:58 +0100

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.”

- Aldous Huxley (via larmoyante)

shewasanouk: Conquest of Spaces by Julian.Vassallo on Flickr.

Mon, 06 May 2013 18:13:26 +0100

shewasanouk:

Conquest of Spaces by Julian.Vassallo on Flickr.