March 2009
11 posts
This is why: love trumps all.
Love is the highest law.
It can be bound by no other.
Love of another human being —
man or woman —
it cannot be wrong.
-Big Love
and conversely,
Sometimes people don’t want to fall in love.
Because when you love someone
it’s too late to set conditions.
You can’t say
I’ll love you if you do this
or I’ll love you if you change that
because you can’t help yourself
and then you have to live
with whoever it is you fall in love with
however they are
and just put up with the difficulties you’ve made for yourself
because true love has...
tired, much?
this morning, i almost put handsoap on my toothbrush…
there’s not much more i can really say about that.
-“Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars)” by Stan...
How I Know That I am the Ultimate Nerd
1. I just got off the phone with my friend and we spent half an hour discussing Milton—just because.
2. I have compiled a list of words that I really like and wish were used more often (this list will probably be released sometime soon, haha).
3. Dictionary.com is one of my “favorite” tabs on top of my toolbar. This is handy and easy-access when writing papers, but is also...
eye candy for english majors
For having lived in Westminister—how many years now? over twenty—one feels even in the midst of the traffic, or waking at night … a particular hush, or solemnity; an indescribable pause; a suspense … before Big Ben strikes. There! Out it boomed. First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. Such fools we are, she thought,...
no seriously, who are you?
question: why is rachel irritable today?
fact: because she was late to work. she couldn’t find her make-up bag. fact: per fact #1, she feels partially naked while sitting at her desk. fact: she can’t believe how ridiculously vulnerable she feels without a few shades of blush and a little eye-liner.
is this what it has come to?! have i subscribed to the blaring media messages that...
A Ladder to the Stars
“Don’t you see!” he cried. “The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin, and you can call sin ignorance. The King James translation makes a promise in ‘Thou shalt,’ meaning that men will surely triumph over sin. But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’—that gives a choice. It might be the most important...
inspire me, please
I was born in the city of Bombay…once upon a time. No, that won’t do, there’s no getting away from the date: I was born in Doctor’s Narlikar’s Nursing Home on August 15th, 1947. The time matters, too. Well then: at night. No, it’s important to be more … On the stroke of midnight, as a matter of fact. Clock-hands joined palms in respectful greeting as I...
birth
thrust into the speckled lights and jarring sounds, we tumble into this world with some ordained purpose. borne into our very hairs and fingertips are the blueprints of meaning which we must fulfill with every passing second, every fleeting thought. i cannot quite grasp sometimes this lot which has been handed to me—for sometimes the beauty of life is but an overwhelming sensation that i...
