May 2012
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ecstatic shock
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the surge of energy upon catching a glance from someone you like—a thrill that starts in your stomach, arcs up through your lungs and flashes into a spontaneous smile—which scrambles your ungrounded circuits and tempts you to chase that feeling with a kite and a key.
April 2012
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March 2012
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February 2012
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As a Facebook friend, he’s not much of one. He never responds to what anyone writes in response to his posts, and doesn’t even “like” their answers. His friends have become fearful that their responses will be ignored, so they remain silent, not even pressing the “like” button. Most of his posts therefore seem to be ignored. But they certainly are not. They are...
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“It takes a long time to become young.”
– Picasso (via kateoplis)
Writers No One Reads: “A revolution to emancipate... →
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“A revolution to emancipate the individual must necessarily regard tradition, the control of the present by the past, as its enemy; if the human individual is to be really free, then time must also be individualized into a succession of immediate moments. The kind of society, therefore, which it…
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“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing,...”
– I’d like to believe that what I sometimes have swirling through my brain is worthy of sharing, rather than squishing like a cockroach. Sometimes what I think one moment is fucking fantastic, the next moment I doubt it, then later I’m sure it’s totally twisted or completely maudlin,...
The Loving Story: Photographs by Grey Villet |... →
True loving… with beautiful and touching photographs.
Forty-five years ago, sixteen states still prohibited interracial marriage. Then, in 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court considered the case of Richard Perry Loving, a white man, and his wife, Mildred Loving, a woman of African American and Native American descent, who had been arrested for miscegenation nine years earlier in Virginia. The...
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