May 2013
24 posts
You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook, an open eye
Margaret Atwood
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“All will right itself in the end. The Balance shifts- it cannot be predicted. It...”
– Tamora Pierce, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world’s eyes As though they’d wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there’s more enterprise In walking naked.
W B Yeats - A Coat
April 2013
30 posts
Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there; I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamond glints on snow, I am the sun on ripened grain, I am the gentle autumn rain. When you awaken in the morning’s hush I am the swift uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circling flight. I am the soft starlight at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.
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How I Met My Dead Parents →
For days I sat in my mother’s filthy study, surrounded by the relics of my parents’ love, trying to take in their lives and thinking, I don’t know these people at all. And for the first time, I wanted to.
do not be so bloody vulnerable →
Twigand Berries posted:
Responded to a domestic violence situation, woman was punched in the face, guy had a bleeding head laceration. We took the woman. My partner was in the back with her and asked her what happened. She said, “Motherfucker punched me so I hit him in the head with a Smoove.”
My partner starts writing his report and after five minutes he can’t stand it...
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snake
“I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Dirty Hands
“The more movies you see and write about, the more you know about them. Consider...”
– Roger Ebert
I think I’ve posted this before, but this is still my favorite thing he’s said. He will be missed. 