May 2008
7 posts
Just Me
“There are times in which I still forget that i’ve been called beloved. There’s no need for stress. So I go back to the slavery of trying to please the others and I make their love a god to me. Let me see myself the way you see me now.” - Forget the Girl.
life
life will continue to move on regardless of whether you’re a part of it or not.
Getting High
“I rushed over to her and found myself trying to organize a circle of loving and caring strangers to help her. Then as the group of us surrounded and took care of her, I felt the love we were generating as an actual current of warm, glowing energy which kept building and buiding until it was like we all seemed to slip our earthly bonds and fused into a shimmering radiance of jewels and...
This American Life
Isn’t that the show with all of the hipster know-it-alls that think ordinary people are interesting? - The OC
Holes
It’s a lot easier to poke holes at things, then it is to patch things up. But each patch makes it that much more valuable to you.
“When money talks I hate to listen
But lately its been screaming in my ear”
– Emaline - Ben Folds
White people and the Civil Rights Movement
“It [The Civil Rights Movement], had an extraordinary impact on everything we did. By and large, white people felt completely trumped by black people at the time, who went out and set this incredibly courageous moral example by putting their lives on the line. And I think those of us who were not actively involved with freedom marches in the South were pressed to come up with an identity and...
