January 2012
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December 2011
5 posts
aerialcircus:
“Affection is only one ingredient of love. To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients—care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication. […] Most of us learn to think of love as a feeling. When we feel deeply drawn to someone, we cathect with them; that is, we invest feelings or emotion in them. That process of...
10 Ways to Love Others
Some guidelines for loving:
1. Tell them about their brilliance. They likely can’t see it and they don’t know its immensity, but you can see it, and you can illuminate it for them.
2. Be authentic, and give others the gift of the real you and a real relationship. Ask your real questions. Share your real beliefs. Go for your real dreams. Tell your truth.
3. Don’t confuse “authenticity” with...
“no we are not playing chess or tennis. this game has another name, if it needs a name. not parting or meeting, not conversation, not silence… and thats why your blood turns a little cold.”
November 2011
5 posts
“One Abuse Script with Many Faces” →
“Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same...”
– Aidan Chambers, This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn (via intensifyit)
true stuff.
October 2011
11 posts
Tony Hoagland, "Personal"
airwalker:
Don’t take it personal, they said; but I did, I took it all quite personal— the breeze and the river and the color of the fields; the price of grapefruit and stamps, the wet hair of women in the rain— And I cursed what hurt me and I praised what gave me joy, the most simple-minded of possible responses. The government reminded me of my father, with its deafness and its laws, and the...
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scared bros at a haunted house →
“A remark intended to shut you down like, “Calm down, you’re overreacting,” after...”
– A Message To Women From A Man: You Are Not “Crazy” | The Current Conscience (via moonfever)
September 2011
3 posts
5 tags
Gotye (ft. Kimbra) - Somebody That I Used To...
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Warsan Shire, "For Women Who Are ‘Difficult’ To...
airwalker:
you are a horse running alone and he tries to tame you compares you to an impossible highway to a burning house says you are blinding him that he could never leave you forget you want anything but you you dizzy him, you are unbearable every woman before or after you is doused in your name you fill his mouth his teeth ache with memory of taste his body just a long shadow...
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Bystanders Rush to Grab Free Weed Spilled From a... →
A truck loaded with bags of kind bud crashed near the Oakridge Mall yesterday in South San Jose, and, not wanting to get nabbed by cops showing up at the scene, the driver fled. Meanwhile, bags of weed were spilling out of the truck and into the street near Blossom Hill Road and Playa Del Rey, and passing motorists quickly pulled over and snatched most of them up before the cops arrived.
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August 2011
11 posts
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July 2011
6 posts
“She doesn’t know how to answer the man’s question about why she snuck into the...”
– Karen Russell, St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised By Wolves (via thenightbookmobile)
How do I know if my relationship is healthy? This is an anonymous and confidential chat. You can use this site to ask or talk about anything related to relationships and dating violence.
June 2011
10 posts
http://youarenotcrazy.com/ →
Watchhometown/angywives/sexandcaffeine
words/framing/reality/whatthingsmean
“And, scarily, I can put the shell back on at any time. Sometimes it’s hard to...”
– yes
aerialcircus:
tune-yards, “Fiya”
why`d you...
