May 2012
14 posts
to feel ugly and ordinary and unloveable,
dragging an imprint across your chest that doesn’t feel like loss so much as collapsed lungs.
“We had a chance here. In future, when you talk about this, you tell people there...”
– Doctor Who
The Writer - Ellie Goulding
i’d rather...
April 2012
43 posts
365 films challenge: 29/365
Milk (2008) a biopic about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay politician elected to public office in the state of California. i loved that no one was portrayed solely as a caricature of polarized political sentiments. it wasn’t a story about good guys and bad guys, it was about relationships and responsibilities to and with society. it was about people and life and how good people can do...
the most selfish thing i've ever done,
was jump ship.
i know about doing what you can’t. i know what it’s like to be stuck between an absence of choices. i have made promises and taken them back. i have enough mistakes stored away for a lifetime of rainy day, but i can’t include leaving Toronto in that long list of things to be reclaimed. i threw it all back because i couldn’t tell the difference between where...
“We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our...”
– Steven Pressfield
"who's the voice of this generation?"
if you’re not already a follower of Lev Grossman’s work in various awesome publications (come on, he’s everywhere!), here’s a great place to start—a piece about what it means to be us and the people who’ll read about us when it’s all over.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1209947,00.html
“Stop crying. Look, it took me a long time to find him. A long time. And even...”
– Dr. Meredith Grey
“Love is fragile—she was thinking—but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
sleep,
sleep and sweetness to counteract the unreasonableness of thriving. sounds about right.
i've been camping out in the PAS building for two...
real or not real?
it's almost 4 AM,
which is when i always get sleepy and careless with my writing. pushing to finish. drinking a Red Bull and taking a break to get over the hump. cheers.