January 2012
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“There was nothing in the world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this....”
– Miranda July, “Something That Needs Nothing,” from the collection No One Belongs Here More Than You
Jan 1st
December 2011
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“In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt...”
– Miranda July, “Something That Needs Nothing,” from the collection No One Belongs Here More Than You
Dec 31st
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“I had never been in love, I had been a peaceful man, but now I was caught in...”
– Miranda July, “The Sister,” from the collection No One Belongs Here More Than You
Dec 31st
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“I have never taken such care with anything. That is my problem with life, I rush...”
– Miranda July, “The Man on the Stairs,” from the collection No One Belongs Here More Than You
Dec 31st
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“And that’s why I have to go back to so many places in the future there...”
– Pablo Neruda, End of the World (Wind)
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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ListenLoch Lomond, “Was and Wire”
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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“We’re all dreamers; we don’t know who we are. Some machine made us; machine of...”
–  Louise Glück, “Mother and Child” (The Seven Ages, Ecco, 2001)
Dec 31st
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“The morning breezes have secrets to tell; don’t go back to sleep.”
– Rumi (via trua)
Dec 31st
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“If you are sad, ask yourself why you are sad. Then pick up the phone and call...”
– Miranda July, “The Shared Patio,” from the collection No One Belongs Here More Than You
Dec 31st
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“This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is…. Life is...”
– Miranda July, “Majesty,” from the collection No One Belongs Here More Than You
Dec 31st
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“But in the end, back she comes. There’s no use resisting. She goes to him...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Dec 30th
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ListenLana Del Rey, “Born to Die”
Dec 30th
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“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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“… we hoard epiphanies under the bed, stuff them in jars and bury them in the...”
– Joanie Mackowski, from “Epiphany” (Poetry, November 2011)
Dec 29th
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“Some of the best things are done by those with nowhere to turn, by those who...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Dec 29th
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“Even if love was underneath it all, there was a great deal piled on top, and...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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“Why should pleasure sound so much like distress? Like someone wounded....”
– Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Dec 28th
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"zoo sonnet," by dawn lonsinger
[and every creeping thing that creepeth] the veined flood did not care what the mute sang and when he died into it, the event, gist boarded, feather and fang all abang in the hull, pupils wet wet, merely lent for the ride/tide/tidings. Carcasses lift up around us like advice, flotation devices. Leashes are of light & sift into us. Bewitched prey of salvation. Rumor has it the birds were...
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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“Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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“Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse.”
– Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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“Our envelope, as I have called it, the cultural insulation that separates us...”
– Northop Frye, Creation and Recreation
Dec 27th
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“You know the parlor trick. wrap your arms around your own body and from the...”
– “Embrace” by Billy Collins (via clavicola)
Dec 27th
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“Last night I watched the weather channel, as is my habit. Elsewhere in the world...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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“The picture in the book is of a leaping man covered in flames—wings of...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Dec 27th
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“More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Anonymous asked: I'm knitting the same scarf as you :D
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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"My Mother Dwindles..." by Margaret Atwood
My mother dwindles and dwindles and lives and lives. Her strong heart drives her as heedless as an engine through one night after another. Everyone says This can’t go on, but it does. It’s like watching somebody drown. If she were a boat, you’d say the moon shines through her ribs and no one’s steering yet she can’t be said to be drifting somebody’s in there....
Dec 27th
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from: "Bowls of Food," by Rumi
                              I make promises to myself and break them. Words are  coins: the vein of ore and the mine shaft, what they speak of. Now consider the sun. It’s neither oriental nor occidental. Only the soul knows what love is. This moment in time and space is an eggshell with an embryo crumpled inside, soaked in belief-yolk, under the wing of grace, until it breaks free of...
Dec 27th
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“The suchness of sex comes from being inside the pleasure.”
– Rumi, from “What You’ve Been Given,” trans. Coleman Barks
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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“All Gods Are Carnivorous.”
– Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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