September 2010
21 posts
Several Things:
1. Life’s a trip, man 2. Betty White is really funny 3. Westwood and my skin do not get along
Confession #3
I have a teeny crush on my Asian American Studies professor. It’s the way he says “hybrid vigor”..gets me every time.
Confession #2:
Last night I dreamed we were walking on half empty streets playing a game of musical chairs. I say half empty because all I remember of other people were out-of-focus families and ghost lovers passing us by in their muted tones. Somehow my fingers found yours and the tips traced maps along the fronts and backs of your slender hands. I don’t like that I remember that feeling so vividly. We...
Confession #1:
I have never watched The Goonies.
Still dry.
Florence revival— I can’t explain...
Time is a fleeting thing.
Dry
I want to turn waves into words and line my walls with fragments and dialogues, but all I’ve ever known is my contradictions and the way my mouth goes dry like the Mojave when I can’t find the right words to say. I want to spell the way things paint themselves behind my eyes, but I find myself caught between sentences where I forget how to form a’s and l’s and all the letters after...
Words That Don’t Exist in the English Language
taylusia:tamburina:
L’esprit de escalier: (French) The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said. Translated it means “the spirit of the staircase.”
Waldeinsamkeit: (German) The feeling of being alone in the woods.
Meraki: (Greek) Doing something with soul, creativity, or love.
Forelsket: (Norwegian) The euphoria you experience when...
“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of...”
– (via crashsitesss)
