- David Wagoner
“If we couldn’t get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can’t have, then we couldn’t ever get strong enough.” — John Irving (via middlenameconfused)
“You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” — Anne Lamott
Shame on the people who voted for and ultimately passed Amendment 1 in north Carolina. Your actions are unforgivable.
However. There is a lesson here. For anyone who thought the 2012 election was gonna be a cake walk. Or that America was finally moving in the right direction, socially. Or that maybe there was good out there despite everything.
Nope. There are still mean spirited, cruel idiots out there fucking shit up for the rest of us.
Constant vigilance. (via unicornfandancing)
“But here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.” —
Rachel Maddow re: North Carolina
Shame on you, North Carolina.
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Ugh embarrassed for my state but at least I can say I voted against Amendment 1.
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“There’s no competitive advantage today in knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn’t care. The world cares about what you can do with what you know – do you have the skill, do you have the will.” — Harvard’s Tony Wagner, author of Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World, speaking at Skillshare’s Penny 2012 conference
(Source: explore-blog, via slantback)
Lost
- David Wagoner
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.
(via psychotherapy)
needed this.
“There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.” — Virginia Woolf, The Years
(Source: afortressaroundmyheart, via nogreatillusion)
“is it by mistake or design?”
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atomic: full of love, full of wonder (2005) by nike savvas. a suspended bouncy ball installation.
this website is kind of great
i am really excited about this pair. get it, girl.