June 2012
98 posts
I’m the kind of girl who is quiet in large groups or around people I don’t know; you only see the real me if we’re close. I smile and laugh a lot, especially at the most inappropriate times. I’m a hopeless romantic. I trip over air, up stairs, and over people’s feet. I am the hardest person to offend, but it is all too easy to make me feel horrible. I hate telling people about my problems; they...
“(what i wish i had said to the man i met while climbing at Malibu Creek)
i...”
– Perfect English, Narinda Heng
Narinda Heng lives and writes in Los Angeles, where she has been working with various arts/community organizations since 2007. She keeps an online notebook called Long Cool Hallway, is co-founder and co-producer of a web series calledThat’s What She Said, and blogs...
“Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.”
– Oscar Wilde (via celestialcat)
geez louise.
it’s weird to think that two of my exes have gotten married on the same date a year apart.
just throwing that out into the internet.
that being said, i really AM happy for both of them in their own separate lives.
and how funny, i think to myself, “you don’t stop loving them, do you?”
7 Days of Queer Theory →
“We are the girls with anxiety disorders, filled appointment books, five-year...”
– Courtney Martin (via seancing)
there is another way… we can just be.
finally i can say that i have forged my own path, left behind the girl who once fit this description. filled with love, i am a woman who has broken free from these shackles. i am free to be. to live the truth that lies in my...
since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life’s not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis. -e.e. cummings
“One of the most amazing things that can happen is finding someone who sees...”
– Susane Colasanti, So Much Closer (via thatkindofwoman)
“Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate....”
– Deepak Chopra (via thatkindofwoman)
“Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all...”
– ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary (via thatkindofwoman)
“heartbreak opens onto the sunrise
for even breaking is opening
and i am broken...”
– Dee Rees, Pariah (2011)
THE ANGRY THERAPIST: What is your definition of... →
theangrytherapist:
I believe intimacy is a shared space, a safe one created by trust, attraction, and a sense of belonging. It is not a constant. It fluctuates, morphs, strengthens, weakens, grows, and shatters, depending on if the act of loving - the building blocks of intimacy - is healthy or unhealthy. Just because one is in an intimate relationship doesn’t mean there is intimacy....
applecore&peachpits :: Self Care & Burnout... →
etiquette-etc:
Found an extensive list of resources on self care and burn out c/o applecore&peachpits. Thanks for compiling this!
For those in attendance of my workshop “Self-Care & Burnout Prevention for Anarchists (and Everyone Else)” on Saturday, Jan. 28th, 2012 — and for whomever happens upon this page — here are some resources for further investigation and enjoyment ^_^
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“…treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can’t until...”
– Kim Harrison (via kari-shma)
National Aboriginal Day: friend or foe? →
etiquette-etc:
Today, June 21st, is Canada’s National Aboriginal Day. This morning, like most other days, I woke up, made my coffee, and sat down to read the news. The consensus seems to be that today is a day to celebrate Aboriginal cultures and to remember our vibrant history within Canada. In the newspapers, stories of celebration and cultural performance encourage all Canadians to learn...
comakid:
how peculiar it is that we can be incredibly alone and incredibly involved at the very same moment.
“Being feminine is being desired and hated at the same time. A feminine body or...”
– Womanist Musings: Processes of Feminization: Becoming Myself (via feminishblog)
“Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it,...”
– Audre Lorde (via thechocolatebrigade)
comakid:
how to prevent the mind from leaking sadness into the body.
“make what you most need to find”
– sabrina ward harrison
“Mostly, I feel that if only I do not speak, if only I refrain from uttering a...”
– Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, by Vincent Lam (p. 337)
“It’s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and...”
– Sofia Coppola (trying to explain what lost in translation is about)
