January 2012
1 post
“Most creative individuals find out early what their best rhythms are for...”
– Excerpt from the book Creativity by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (via phellitosway)
Saves us time and concern over what others are thinking of us, which isn’t too relevant anyway. ~ CV
March 2011
1 post
December 2010
3 posts
November 2010
7 posts
Purpose and Passion: Recognizing that YOU have a... →
“When the great library of Alexandria burned, the story goes, one book was saved. But it was not a valuable book; and so a poor man, who could read a little, bought it for a few coppers.The book wasn’t very interesting, but between its pages there was something very interesting indeed. It was a…
America: Land of Loners?
America: Land of Loners?
by Daniel Akst
Americans, plugged in and on the move, are confiding in their pets, their computers, and their spouses. What they need is to rediscover the value of friendship.
Science-fiction writers make the best seers. In the late 1950s far-sighted Isaac Asimov imagined a sunny planet called Solaria, on which a scant 20,000 humans dwelt on far-flung estates and...
cloudya asked: Thanks for your kind reply to my Homesick post. It put a huge grin on my face. That post was fiction, though. I have no problem posting my whiny shit, and I cut myself and bleed all over tumblr all the time, but when something is fiction, I tag it as such so that I don't worry anyone needlessly :)
I also tagged it "failed experiment" because I was attempting to...
I also tagged it "failed experiment" because I was attempting to...
May 2010
5 posts
The Power of Chill
goitalone:
I really don’t want to finish any of my projects. I will, though. I just want to sit here and watch the day waste away. I like how I can see the light change in my living room as the day progresses. That sounds weird, doesn’t it? It’s okay. I’m in a weird mood.
Perfect idea…I’m doing the same. Except for Tumblr.
“Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you...”
– Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild (via zenfreckles) (via constantflux)
Ditto this: We are not like other people.
indefensible:
underscorelick:
We tire of computer screens and routine. We struggle to find meaning in being another link in the corporate chain, on an inevitable journey to old age and then death - a journey during which the scenery barely changes. Our feet itch, preventing us from getting comfortable or settled or ‘sorted out’ in any situation or place. We claw at our skin, unsatisfied with...
WatchTelephone Afgha-gha-nistan…gotta love it!
Bless our guys over there!
March 2010
1 post
“If the world gives you the blues, if you wake up in the middle of the night with...”
– Henry Rollins, Solipsist (via girlvanized) (via redcloud) (via toplessmama)
February 2010
3 posts
piscesinpurple:
All Fired Up // Pat Benatar
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January 2010
10 posts
Trying to make sense of it
inothernews:
bowlingalleylawyer:
randyhaddock:
Start counting to 50,000, out loud. And as you’re counting, be fully aware that each number is a precious life lost in the Haiti earthquake. Someone’s mom, someone’s dad, someone’s grandpa, someone’s grandma, someone’s sister, someone’s brother, someone’s uncle, someone’s aunt, someone’s daughter, someone’s son, someone’s friend. You’ll be...
For a Boy Long Ago Who Asked Me Not to Be Affected
cloudya:
Not because it burned with a mindless, all-consuming flame. Not because it was a chemical heat, with all its reaching and grasping and frenzied desperation. Not because it was raw and bone-aching hunger, swinging manic as a pendulum. Not because it was any of these things. But because it was none of them. Because it was a low smolder that seeded in the quiet, unsuspecting folds of my...
December 2009
15 posts
My ugly little problem
I had a “problem” like that for more years than you’ve lived, Cloudya. It wasn’t until my second stint in jail (DUI) that I decided to lay off for a year. I even went to AA meetings for the first six months. I tried to fit in with the folks there. Thankfully, they were cliquish on that little island on the Gulf and I stood out, not really one of them and wanting to fit in...
WatchThank you for this, Cloudya! It’s the Cliff’s Notes (PhilosophersNotes) of “It’s A Wonderful Life.”
cloudya:
xntrek:
xntrek:
Sigh with cynicism, then roll eyes, then Smile, then roll eyes cynically, then smile, then frown, then sigh knowingly, then smile, then cry … happily.
Yes, I’m reblogging myself. Yes, I think I should. No, I don’t care if you don’t...
It’s Complicated
Some time, early in the morning, no light…so it must be three or four or somewhere in between. My clock isn’t luminous and I don’t feel like punching the button to know what time it really is. I don’t care. I used to care. I would reach across and touch her. Stroke her back and hair, and she’d move…maybe turn to me and bury her head against my shoulder, arm across my chest. I would lie there,...
Alone and Lonely
Being alone and being lonely are two distinctly separate states of being. Alone is not so bad, particularly when it is conducive to personal space, improvement or achieving an objective without distractions. Lonely…just bites after a while. There is no one to share times with, whether they be good or bad. Having someone to share with cuts the negative in half and doubles the pleasure of any...
November 2009
5 posts
From the mobile, although I’m sitting right here.
