January 2011
20 posts
Despite the best efforts of John Cusack and the...
December 2010
15 posts
We shall not cease from exploration
And at the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
- T.S. Eliot, “The Four Quartets”
Imagine no possessions,
I wonder if you can
No...
Forever in peace.
It’s actually really brave, though inconvenient, to accept yourself completely, and not be disappointed. It’s miraculous to be in full awareness of who you are, and not have even the smallest of voices in the back of your head, suggesting what could or should be changed. Yes, it’s expected. It’s preached. It’s wanted. But we all know that it rarely exists, and when it...
I think there is something very very wrong with our country when the department of children’s services is often the bully in movies concerning children’s welfare. I don’t know, but it seems to me that our system of looking after children needs to be a little bit less about the paperwork and more about the actual children.
"Tell me one last thing," said Harry, "Is this...
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t...”
– Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum (via)