January 2011
28 posts
"When someone loves you, the way they say your...
There are six places I dream of visiting:
jetaimealafolie:
HOGWARTS:
AND NARNIA:
AND NEVERLAND:
AND MIDDLE EARTH:
AND OZ:
AND WONDERLAND:
questions I ask myself
1. Why are all my primary confidants guys?
2. How do I so often become the person in whom troubled people confide?
3. Why is it always so cold in my room?
4. Why is it that no matter how many socks I wear, my feet are always cold?? (this might be the most pressing question)
chapter seven in which our protagonist realizes...
Taking a class at the Design School secured my knowledge that:
a. I like artsy people. They dress well.
b. I like buildings and looking inside them.
c. I like presenting and being critiqued.
d. I will never become an architect because I have no talent for actually building.
e. I do many things medium-well, but have yet to find one which I do exceptionally well.
And it did, and it didn’t. And it took about a year. And you know how...
– Brene Brown, http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html
side characters
When I go back to school after a lengthy period of time, I always find that I hesitate in meeting with friends from the past. I always assumed this was due to my being anti-social and conversationally inadequate after lack of human interaction.
But today I realized that this happens because I have been conditioned to think that a chapter of your life ends after this lengthy amount of time. After...
What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be...
– Jeanette Winterson (via runawaytrain)