April 2013
8 posts
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Here, a poem: [abridged]
cracking voice of “us”- Dissonance springs from Making a mistake (question-mark) Act I: Finale wake up intentions love, the ability to: Time: N/A words form wilderness wordless world- meaning born by void in brain- storm- avoid no seeds sew heart-cloth - remember home- no where is water lily self- home is crow, crane- befriend the creature home whatever anything means.
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_/ Here, a poem: \_
_/ Playing music:
transform
joy/pain/strangeitude of “me”
into melody/harmony/cracking voice of “us”-
Dissonance springs from “why”
And “Hallelujah” \_
_/ Making a mistake in front of someone:
in front of all
the world, a stage
contains
(question-mark)
characters-
Act I: Finale
“This Is No Rehearsal” \_
_/ Doubting-...
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River Street
Had I that day alone–
that day to have not
known you, then,
I would’ve rolled
along that old
unobstacled
road-more-like a
wood-beside-the-water
path.
I would have
two-wheel rolled
a– long– with– fre– quent–
bumps, but on the wood
I would have rolled along
without a fall– (ing for-
ward)––– toward the rush
of River Street where I grew
up when I stepped outside
the thick...
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not-thefunniestblog:
“homework”
“season finale”
“clicking publish instead of answer privately”
“trying to talk to someone you really like”
“responsibilities”
March 2013
6 posts
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The HRC’s red Equal sign went viral this week in support of gay marriage.
You may have noticed a Greater-Than (>) sign appear in a few profile pictures as well. It went mini-viral. With all the energy around this issue now, I’ve been reading up on the fight for marriage equality and thinking more critically about it.
Although it is silly to think that changing a profile...
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a post about the subtitles on my harry potter vcd
jaymhensley:
so i found my old vcd-copy of harry potter and the chamber of secrets and… i don’t know what’s more entertaining, the movie or the subtitles.
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February 2013
3 posts
“Whiteness is not a culture. There is Irish culture and Italian culture and...”
– Noel Ignatiev (via sonofbaldwin)
January 2013
1 post
August 2012
2 posts
“When I am silent,
I have thunder hidden inside.”
– Rumi
(via fuckyeahrumi)
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scooping up the ocean
with cupped hands
let all of who you are
love this water
because you are you
because water is water
big water
big heart
too much to hold
no need to
this love
in each drop of water
falling from your hands
returns to its vast oceanness
scooping up the ocean
with cupped hands
now hold this love
now give it all away
because you are not you
because water is...
July 2012
12 posts
Pain is painful.
Fact.
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“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
– Rumi (via fuckyeahrumi)
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fuckyeahrumi:
“I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I’ve been knocking from the inside.”
― Rumi
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this train is moving
so slowly - ever so slow!
but it is moving
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How To Be A Reverse-Racist: An Actual Step by Step...
THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER!
blackgirldangerous:
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by A.D Song and Mia McKenzie
White people who are confronted with their white privilege and the white supremacist acts they perpetuate have been known to cry, “You’re being a reverse-racist!” That is...
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June 2012
3 posts
Wow!
Life is unexpected
When you least expect it
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“The mystery does not get clearer by repeating the question,
nor is it bought with going to amazing places.
Until you’ve kept your eyes
and your wanting still for fifty years,
you don’t begin to cross over from confusion.”
- Jelaluddin Rumi
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“You have to be careful not to criticize or fight the mind, since it is normal to think, hear sounds, and feel sensations. The trick is not to grasp or reject them. Just leave them alone and let them come and go lightly.”
- Martine Batchelor
April 2012
13 posts
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Why I Treasure Monday Evenings
Buddham saranam gacchami hank is not a person hank is anyone present and everyone is already
here sitting with you all all is only what it is and all of what is this Dhammam saranam gacchami reciting a reading mind can read too much into the meaning and forget that i know it by heart sitting with you helps me recall the heart Sangham saranam gacchami with this sangha i can safely settle...
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to the rain!
understand underneath this coat of silver - this medieval contraption - self - conscious self - i am soft as the air around a lightbulb glowing yellow flickering dimming observed in a forest by ancient owls who have no necks and wise birch trees that drink to water! to dirt! to life! i remember again how to laugh at the constant hum of my metallic mind - how to listen to the hymn of rain that...
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“The old saying goes: give a man a fish and he eats for a day; teach a man to...”
– Jaime Grant, Director of Kalamazoo College’s Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadersip
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I will say this: I rarely live my life on autopilot. That’s something, I guess.
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It’s cloudy - I can’t see
the stars tonight. But I need
a constellation. I’m selfish.
Where did my stars go?
Wow, dumbstruck me,
notices that what I thought
all of this was isn’t it, at all…
it’s fading into…? You’re confusing yourself! You talk too much. Look!
Listen! Judgments, extra. This poem, extra. Just,… just what? That’s...
Beautiful evening.
constant struggle the
never-ending
fight it really
wears you
down
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sometimes life requires
much of us:
courage
wisdom
strength
to take action!
to stand up!
to fight!
but when
life demands
that we crawl
into our shells
feeling defeated
and that we unsettle
into the unknown
as it all collapses
in on us, we must
try to remember:
this too requires
courage, wisdom
and more strength
than one would think
March 2012
31 posts
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Words catch
Wind of meaning
Want to capture
Worlds
And
Although well-meaning
Mere syllables
Fall short
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The best poems mean so
Many things at once that you
Never know just what!
