Wide awake
I can’t imagine what it is like to be a person who doesn’t feel a lot. I have always been a person who feels a lot; in growing older, I have been able to more accurately compare myself to others and...
View ArticleThanks-giving
Ode to Thanks Pablo Neruda Thanks to the word that says thanks! Thanks to thanks, word that melts iron and snow! The world is a threatening place until thanks makes the rounds from one pair of lips to...
View ArticleGive me a reason
Sometimes I see things fitting together so seemingly perfectly, with such a natural ease, that I think I sort of understand why so many humans explain that fitting-together as the “meant to be”-ness of...
View ArticleGifts
It is a gift that you give freely, without expectation or demand, and without anticipation of something in return. It costs nothing to give, and when you give it, the quantity you have only multiplies....
View ArticleGood news
Whatever terrible shit happens, whatever disappointments or pains you feel, the good news is that you’re still you. Filed under: general rambling and so forth
View ArticleStupidity is getting more and more life-threatening
Please excuse all of the “fuck”s in this post. I have a hard time dealing with this level of stupidity without losing a little bit of my usually excellent command of vocabulary. Islamophobes gonna...
View ArticleThe feeling of what happens
Someone is gone. This person was just a few years older than me, and he wasn’t a very very close friend, but there was something about him that had a strong impact on me. His death a few weeks ago has...
View ArticleCreation-ism
It’s a constant learning experience, living in the space that is created between being the absolute most stressed I’ve ever been, and the absolute happiest I’ve ever been. Most of the time, it’s the...
View Articleor: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barbell
I suppose that I have just always been a little bit fat, and in elementary school, girls who are a little bit fat don’t get picked first for kickball teams at recess (or picked second, or fifth, or...
View ArticleThings you learn as you go along
Do not be a person who only sacrifices, and do not be one who only gives. Understand what it means to accept from someone else what they have to give, and to recognize when it is offered. Filed under:...
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