July 2011
4 posts
The Recognition Scene: My Important Opinion That... →
snakesandearthquakes:
Every student in the US education system should be required to take at least one course in general anthropology. Anthropological thinking and perspectives are incredibly valuable and useful, and there needs to be more of them. If, perhaps, school systems were to replace…
Oh my Buddha, yes. The thing that turned me on to anthropology was a segment on it my senior...
June 2011
5 posts
May 2011
4 posts
“I’ll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do...”
– Lyra Silvertongue (The Amber Spyglass)
Annette Bening!?
waspholidays:
Mom (to me): Tell them how you met Annette Bening. (to my aunts) He know’s Annette Bening. He watched the Tony’s at Annette Bening’s house.
October 2009
1 post
This Longing
davebessom:
by Martin Steingesser … awoke to rain around 2:30 this morning thinking of you, because I’d said only a few days before, this is what I wanted, to lie with you in the dark listening how rain sounds in the tree beside my window, on the sill, against the glass, damp cool air on my face. I am loving fresh smells, light flashes in the black window, love how you are here when you’re not,...
July 2009
1 post
Anniversaries
davebessom:
by Donald Justice
Great Leo roared at my birth,
The windowpanes were lit
With stars’ applausive light,
And I have heard that the earth
As far away as Japan
Was shaken again and again
The morning I came forth.
Many drew round me then,
Admiring. Beside my bed
The tall aunts prophesied,
And cousins from afar,
Predicting a great career.
At ten there came an hour
When,...
June 2009
2 posts
Words to live by →
Poem in October (Dylan Thomas)
(Just turned thirty on Monday.)
It was my thirtieth year to heaven
Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood
And the mussel pooled and the heron
Priested shore
The morning beckon
With water praying and call of seagull and rook
And the knock of sailing boats on the net webbed wall
Myself to set foot
That second
In the still sleeping town and set forth.
My...
March 2009
7 posts
“Get over yourself!
Get over your goodness and your righteousness, if they...”
– L. William Countryman, Forgiven and Forgiving
“Love is the way messengers from the mystery tell us things.”
– Rumi
"Singapore" by Mary Oliver →
"Magnificent" by U2
Magnificent Oh, magnificent I was born I was born to be with you
In this space and time After that and ever after I haven’t had a clue Only to break rhyme This foolishness can leave a heart Black and blue
Only love Only love can leave such a mark
But only love Only love can heal such a scar
I was born I was born to sing for you
I didn’t have a choice But to lift you up And sing...
