my religion.

plants & animals >>>

mercury in retrograde.

the planet appears to be going backwards from earth.
communication
travel
technology
virgo and gemini
all become foggy.
it is harder to just do.

re view
re juvenate
re vive
re lationships
re union
but do not re act.

forgive.

perspective.

when it is darkest, men see the stars.

ralph waldo emerson.

note to myself:

Love thy beer-belly.

Take one minute at a time.
Unwind, little one, unwind.
Before there was now, there was time before this time.
Little by little.
Love thyself but love others deeper.
Lykke Li

so I wait.

I'm here
can you not see me?
maybe you are not looking...

I have pictures to show you,
questions to ask
dreams to make.

I won't shout
I won't write
I won't call out your name...

because if you wanted me,
you'd know where I am.

world peace duh.

So like, right now for example. The Haitians need to come to America. But some people are all, "What about the strain on our resources?" Well it's like when I had this garden party for my father's birthday, right? I put R.S.V.P. 'cause it was a sit-down dinner. But some people came that like did not R.S.V.P. I was like totally buggin'. I had to haul ass to the kitchen, redistribute the food, and squish in extra place settings. But by the end of the day it was, like, the more the merrier. And so if the government could just get to the kitchen, rearrange some things, we could certainly party with the Haitians. And in conclusion may I please remind you it does not say R.S.V.P. on the Statue of Liberty. Thank you very much. 
cher, clueless

are.

I'M DRAWN TO A TOUCH OF ELEGANCE, LIGHTNESS, AND YOUTHFULNESS. PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT JUST PRESENTING AN IMAGE, BUT A REPUTATION AS WELL. PEOPLE WHO LIVE NONCHALANTLY, IN BOTH LARGE CITIES AND IN SMALL TOWNS; PEOPLE WHO FOCUS ON QUALITY OF SOLID TRADITIONS THEY’VE TURNED INTO GUIDELINES FOR CONTEMPORARY LIFE; PEOPLE FAMILIAR WITH THAT KIND OF WELL-EDUCATED LUXURY THAT MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE, YET NEVER FLAUNTING IT; PEOPLE WHO ALSO KNOW HOW TO TAKE A BREAK FROM IT ALL AND CAN JUST RELAX, HAVE FUN, AND JOKE WITH FRIENDS. SPECIAL, “COMPLETE,” RESPECTABLE PEOPLE, PEOPLE WHO REALLY HAVE NO NEED TO “APPEAR,” INSOFAR AS THEY ALREADY “ARE."

Donatella SARTORIO 

emotions aren't covered by single words.

emotions in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret". maybe the best proof of that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train car constructions like, say, "the happiness the attends disaster." or "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "imitations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with the "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never never had the right words to my life, and now that I have entered my story, I need them more than ever.

thank you jefrey eugenides author of middlesex.

my faith.

...imagine if you didn't?

the company you keep.

though you may have no intention of becoming like the people around you, if your mother is miserable & your girlfriend is homicidal & your best friend is a misogynist, you will unconsciously begin to mimic & imitate all these behaviours. Unless you want to be miserable, the best thing you can do is extricate yourself from these types of people…
thank you gala

talk it over coffee.

everyone knows the therapy in a cup or coffee. the ritual in your morning brew. but did you know that it is actually proven by philosophers that some of your best thinking happens over a cup of coffee. Scott F. Parker and Michael W. Austin explain how, coffeehouse is one of the few places open to everyone where gathering and lingering are encouraged, where leisure (as distinct from entertainment) is a goal. This seems crucial. In our world of endless distraction and constant surface-level attention, coffee plays an interesting role. On the one hand, it contains caffeine, and the stimulation it provides can be used to live an even more kinetic life. On the other hand, drinking coffee can be one of your most intentional and deliberate acts. You take time out of your day to do something that brings you simple pleasure. And the fact that coffee is generally served hot helps because it requires that you pay attention -- you literally have to slow down to drink it. I think focusing like this, even just for 15 minutes at a time, is critical for mental health.

"One thing I want to encourage is treating coffee in this latter mode -- slowing down, enjoying it and using your coffee time for paying attention to the world--and the caffeine helps with this. Drinking coffee doesn't necessarily lead people to do philosophy, but I want it to give them a chance."

thank you huffington post 

shakespeare says.

when I saw you i fell in love and you smiled because you knew.

love is not love

which alters when it alteration finds

or bends with the remover to remove

O. no!  it is an ever fixed mark,

that looks on tempests and is never shaken.

it is the star to every wandering bark.

whose worth's unknown 

although his height be taken.

expectation is the root of all heart ache.

square pants wisdomosity.

something.

I can't imagine a day not in this spell.
were going backwards the right way.
inspiration to get my act together is everything right now.
the others seem so irrelevant.
sometimes you feel something and you wonder
how long you lasted so long with out it.
or if you ever felt it before this at all.

girls be girls. boys be gross.

I asked my best mate the other day after a casual dine with a suitor, "so0o what do you think?" and she said "...he's you, you guys are the exact same." I reply "I know right?!" smiling... she looks back at me and meets my eyes "...no he's a dude, it's not okay that you act alike." kinda taken back... I thought about it, and she is right. my background in women's studies always insisted there is an eternal double standard that is unfair, and I have whole heartedly agreed. but thinking more about it, maybe it's a good thing? maybe that keeps the balance of the men as men and the women as feminine. yes I realize ALL the panties in a knot if I were to share this back in one of my women's studies classes, how wrong gendering is.. .yada yada. but for the sake of promiscuity, maybe equality wasn't the best policy. chuck klosterman writes "for the past twenty-five years, culture has been obsessed with making males and females more alike, and that's fine. Maybe it's even enlightened. But what I have noticed- at least among young people- is that this convergence has most likely just prompted females to adopt the worst qualities of men. It's like girls are trying to attain equality by becoming equally shallow and selfish." He goes on to note how this has been absorbed by our generation, "The consensus is that this double standard is wrong, so -therefore- we should all have sex with as many people as possible."
act like a woman, think like a man?
source: sex, drugs, cocoa puffs

I'm sorry.

not getting in the car.

we never give thanks to those not willing to drag us into hell. by not dating you, not screwing with you, not giving you false hope. maybe those are the ones who actually care about you?

doing me.

'doing me' is probably the most selfish thing one can do. it makes complete sense at this age to get to know yourself and push yourself to find the real you. find out what you want, who you want, and how you are going to get it. but maybe our generation doesn't have it as figured out as we think. maybe we have masked selfishness as self discovery. what if we don't like who we are as a free agent? maybe we need that other person to consider, to consult and to care for. somebody to keep you at home or get angry when you drink too much. someone to care when you dress like a floozy or eat cereal for dinner. where is the balance?

pretty.

love is just around the corner.