July 2012
6 posts
A Young Man Flees
A young man was following him, wearing nothing but a linen...
– (Mark 14:48-52)
• http://www.esvbible.org/Mark+14/
• http://www.extremelysmart.com/insight/accurate/Mark_14_51-52.php (“Jewish people abhorred nakedness; that was just too, too pagan for them.”)
Kick:
Attacking a piece, typically by a pawn, so that it will move.
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_terms#Countergambit
anabolicandbronze:
i believe the level of my bad moods are directly correlated to how many movies with people kissing i have had to see that day.
Meditation is old and honorable, so why should I
not sit, every morning of my...
– What I Have Learned So Far by Mary Oliver (via growing-orbits)
January 2012
7 posts
I have always been intrigued by the journals that young girls keep. they are...
– Rachel Klein (via dailydoseofquotes)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2011... →
You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.
– Tina Fey (via letthemstopandstare)
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This is not the only place such an opportunity has been
gathered
...
– Tom Wayman’s Did I miss Anything?
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/013.html
Writing is the hardest job in the world, and I think every writer will attest to...
– Donald Glover (via korifish)
December 2011
9 posts
I love getting out of bed to go to the bathroom...
alphabravofoxtrot:
Not because I enjoy being cold, though I do like the way those cold tiles feel as you dance across them. No I love it because I know that when I get back to bed I can crawl back into my already warm covers and drift away into a land where there is nothing to care about. I can cocoon myself in the comforter I have had for years. Bury myself in the womb of my twin bed.
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I was so stupid last year
– me every year (via luckyiminlovewithagron)
November 2011
28 posts
howitbegins:
It was just one of those days when I had to wear all black and grey and listen to very loud classical music while reading a thoughtful memoir on my way home from that hell hole that I attend every weekday.
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anabolicandbronze:
“the words ‘my doctor said’ always seem so foreboding, make you feel like you’re choking on a cold stethoscope and tongue depressors. when you say ‘my doctor’ i don’t think of the friendly man with my grandfather’s middle name who would always ask my mother what she thought it was first. i think of his credentials and his white coat and how someday he’ll probably have to give...
howitbegins:
gingerhaze:
“I wish that everyone was big blobs made of sweater material and we’d just walk up to each other on the sidewalk and cuddle like penguins.”
- An actual conversation I just had
I approve
I love a lot of people, understand none of them…
– Flannery O’Connor (via misswallflower)
“And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted—-nevermore!”
—The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe
“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you” (Matthew 7:7).
“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you… . Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” (John 14:27).
Love Actually is actually really sad.
howitbegins:
Like 80% of it
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself...
– Kurt Vonnegut (via ireadintothings)
howitbegins:
underthesheets:
She was quite a sweet girl. Until she started all that knitting.
#story of my life soon to be a major motion picture
I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
– Albert Camus (via clavicola)
Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here...
– Maya Angelou (via catchafirefly)
I love this woman
(via howitbegins)
howitbegins:
Pure charm
one clean and hard and blank
the other dripping in sweetness so tempting
you know that if you allowed
your hands to take control
and embrace the urge to reach
and touch
they’d be covered
in stick
and pick up all
the filth around
you and your judgment
of wishes