February 2012
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The weekend away from school with the choir was beautiful, a reminder of life. I felt moments of such unrestrained joy, like when we arrived at the host church for dinner and immediately started a Serbian dance riot. The pool party. The hours of screaming and laughter on the bus. And I cried during the performance, felt like the world was ending, cried as one of the best friends I’ve...
Miss Piggy On Beauty
ribbonsandgeekery:
Gaahd, Miss Piggys interview on beauty for Vogue gave me a smile from ear to ear. I love that sexy body positive pig.
What are your top beauty tips?
Start out perfect and don’t change a thing. Always accentuate your best features by pointing at them. And conceal your flaws by sucker punching anyone who has the audacity to mention them.
“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and...”
– L.P. Jack, from his Education Through Recreation, published in 1932.
Ah, mes amis
A crush doesn’t hurt, until it does. I need to do better this time, not be obsessed with someone I hardly know. This is my problem: running with projections of people and then crashing into the real versions of them. I embarrass myself in front of myself and it transforms my behavior into something so strange, and they end up getting caught in it. I strangle new relationships with my own...
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April
April is a month, anew I build with dying parts of you Roses, dead blood red rose red Blood ink, words unsaid, re-said On these narrow paths we tread That mirror all the bursting leaves We search for one, that life believes We, circling, find ourselves instead I cannot hold these roses so (Their thorns tear out my blood, you know) But without beauty, cannot live (What blood, what love have I to...
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The sun
The sun is out, my stomach’s empty I flop, a trout, impermanently My mouth is dry and full of dust My bones are screaming, stiff with rust The river sinks into the bed Leaving plants rocks fishes dead The sun the sun the sun the sun My god, you god, you were the one - Maybe I am all that I need
What a Father Should Do When His Gay Son Talks... →
This was beautiful. Surprising, and beautiful.
"How do you tell if someone is flirting with you?"
everyoneisgay:
-Question submitted by Anonymous
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Dannielle Says:
Think to yourself “If I didn’t like this person, would I be creeped out?”
If the answer is yes, then they are flirting with you.
Kristin Says:
Look them right in the eye and say, “Are you flirting with me?”
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Don't betray that trust
Don’t betray that trust Don’t I Don’t betray that trust
The temple of your soul Must remain clean Don’t Don’t
Do Do Do Do Do Do Open, spirit calling Siren of love Crying Heart open Growth when There is room For all the damaged, Hidden (self) Precious Man
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We drank piña coladas
We drank piña coladas and watched TV in silence while the world yelled around us (hearts breaking, birth, fingers intertwined, the frustration of distant love calling) Knowing each other in that moment, laughing hearts and fault lines pushed into corners, against the walls: My friend, we are the words in every book, stopping only when our hands grow weary and we are comfortable hanging in the...
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I walked with the stars
I walked with the stars Across my love We were spinning, burning, Clutching our chests as the Fire inside forged new elements
We were dancing in the streets, Slowly going home “The fusion of lighter elements into heavier ones until the core is too dense to handle the weight of new emotion - “ We have known this feeling If I tear myself apart, Will I float until there is no energy left...
dasall:
Postcards From Italy - Florence &...
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Erschöpft
Five different tests this week in four different languages, but I feel good. They’re all done. And then my German Club event was super successful…there were almost 100 people there. I was really proud, and for the first time, I felt sad about one day not having the Club.
I’m looking forward to getting a lot of work done this weekend and not always feeling like I’m on...
“Whatever we say
we know there is another
language under this one”
– W. S. Merwin, from “To the Tongue” in Present Company
treesquirrrel:
That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn’t just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback.
104 Ways to Break the Ice →
“It’s a good example that 99% of meeting someone nice is in showing up, is in preventing yourself from overanalyzing and instead just being with them in that particular place at that particular time. That it’s never as difficult to connect with someone as it seems in your head. That love is not this impossible thing reserved for the clever — it’s the for the awkward and embarrassed and...