January 2012
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electro-clarifier:
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already done. Always relevant.
“We are always getting ready to live, but never living.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t ever let you talk yourself out of something you want to do. Go do. (via antcervo)
Guilty as charged. But learning to be better…
“Moms learning how to tag photos on Facebook is like velociraptors learning how...”
– (via david)
“Crap. I’m bored.”
– Doesn’t help that the internet is out and my phone is a terrible option for using the web. See also: I look like hell.
the-rx:
Words That Don’t Exist in the English Language 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:...
“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless...”
–
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (trans. Stephen Mitchell)
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“It’s like morphine, language is. A fearful habit to form: you become a bore to...”
– William Faulkner, Mosquitoes (via cursintheweeds)
“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are...”
– Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 (via caitlinandthewhale)
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
– Isaac Newton (via un)
Out of surgery since this morning.
Hopped up on pain meds, a humidifier, and ice packs.
Also: drifting in and out of consciousness.
Now, where’s my wife?
“To know that you do not know, is to know a great deal.”
– (via maksg)