“There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again”

Benjamin Button

Manchester Orchestra - I Can Feel A Hot One

I never want to hear the truth
I want to hear your voice, it sounded fine
My voice, it sounded fine


To keep me up another restless night
Another restless night

Imagine the grandest bed of all. With a surplus of perfectly fluffy yet compact pillows that are cool on one side and warm on the other. Piles of soft blankets strewn all over the bed. Limbs draped over limbs, tangled bodies, swirls of hair, soft lighting, and piles of books that we've been meaning to read. This is how I want to spend my day. With you.

"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest."

 

 

When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. 

 

– Mae West

 

 

Lights will guide you home

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. 

– Audrey Hepburn

I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.

- Marilyn Monroe

 

 

Pssssst............France?

Please remember to leave a light on. 

How To Be Alone

And you? When will you begin 

that long journey into yourself ?

-Rumi

 

 

We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.

Everybody gets sad sometimes,
But the lovers soul keeps a tender smile.

-Rumi

Death in Everyday Life

We experience death all of the time. 

We experience it in the form of things not working out.

We experience it in the form of things always being in a process of change. 

When the day ends, when the second ends, when we breathe out, 

that's death in everyday life.

Slow Down

Notes to the Hurrying Man

-Brian Pattenson

"Work at life!" you scream,
and working I see you rushing everywhere,
so fast most times you ignore
two quarters of your half a world.

Addicted to Hope

Theism is an addiction. 

We're all addicted to hope. 

Hope that the doubt and mystery will go away. 

As a result we hold onto hope and miss out on the present.

Let's Be Beautiful

“Let’s Be Beautiful” 

by Melissa Rice

 

Let’s Be Beautiful

Let’s be beautiful
Outrageous and voluptuous and funny
Let’s toss our hair around
With no intention
Except for that it feels good and we’re lost in our thoughts
and in each other

Let’s laugh loudly
Not at the right time but whenever we feel like it
Not at someone or about
But at ourselves
And at life

Let’s be wonderful
Not pretty and poised and proper and pointed
Pink with dots but look up at the stars and embrace the
Rainbow
Overhear children giggling
Savor scents of anything newborn

Let’s forget to shave our legs for a whole week
Because we are so busy thinking about
The entire world’s children
And not just our own
Or not even

Let’s eat right and sleep right and strengthen our core muscles
Not because the Department of Longevity says so
But because we love living
And want to stick around a little bit longer
Than we’d originally planned because we’re not as afraid as we used to be

Let’s triumph
Over concealer and concealing
Injections and architectural French pedis
Over death of children by insults and
No true love

Let’s celebrate
Not what should have been and would have been and could still be
Not removal of Section 8 housing from our neighborhood
But now

Let’s collaborate
Not because we’re supposed to but because it’s more succulent.
Have sex on Tuesday mornings because it’s atypical and not predictable Unpretentious and glorious and very, very quiet

Let’s drink it all in
The sickening, the riveting, the passionate, the wise and the unwise
Let’s be decadent and luscious and full of justice
Care about a little instead of
I could care less

Let’s dance incorrectly and step on each other’s toes
Fall over each other and into each other
And realize we are at our best
When we do

Let’s be careful, but not too careful
Let’s touch our souls with our hands
Let’s hold each other gently and spontaneously
With no purpose and with every purpose

Let’s Be Beautiful.