February 2012
7 posts
Why Patriarchal Men Are Utterly Petrified of Birth... →
For the first time in human history, new technologies made fertility a conscious choice for an ever-growing number of the planet’s females. And that, in turn, changed everything else.
With that one essential choice came the possibility, for the first time, to make a vast range of other choices for ourselves that were simply never within reach before. We could choose to delay childbearing and...
January 2012
33 posts
we were two lovers of one gender →
Sleeping, turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we’re not alone in the universe, even in sleep: the dream-ghosts of two worlds walking their ghost-towns, almost address each other. I’ve wakened to your muttered words spoken light- or dark-years away as if my own voice had spoken. But we have different voices, even in sleep, and our...
“Over many years this dirt has taught me a lot. I have a relationship with this...”
– Pierre Rabhi (via fernsandmoss)
“Celebration when your plan is working? Anyone can do that. But when you realize...”
– “Cold Tangerines” by Shauna Niequist (via julie911)
“‘Do you fall in love often?’ Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a...”
– Jeanette Winterson (via light-essence)
“It has seemed to me lately more possible than I knew, to carry a friendship...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed,...”
– Michael Ondaatje - The English Patient
Serenbe Community →
What a magical place.
ventriloquistic:
Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via loveyourchaos)
15 of the Deadliest Corporations →
somerset:
stay-human:
These corporations, if they were individual human beings, would be locked up for life. Instead, they continue raking in the big bucks. Human rights abuses, murder, war, eco disasters, and animal exploitation keep these evil companies raking in the green. Prepare to be disgusted.
I don’t think the list is in any particular order. Even if you don’t agree with all of them...
“What is the difference
Between your Existence
And that of a Saint?
The...”
– Hafiz (via my friend Caitlin)
“Light
Will someday split you open
Even if your life is now a cage,
For a...”
– Hafiz
“Do you know how beautiful You are?
I think not, my dear.
For as you talk...”
– Hafiz
“Let us be like two falling stars in the day sky.
Let no one know of our...”
– Hafiz
“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around...”
– John Greene
Dancing On My Own (Robyn cover) by Fleet Foxes
“She was breathing deeply, she forgot the cold, the weight of beings, the insane...”
– Albert Camus (via fernsandmoss)
“We are not even aware that we’re seeing increasingly divergent images of the...”
– Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble. I finally finished this book at lunch. I cut it pretty fine; it’s due back to the library today! (via elizs)
“They have an unusual relationship. And when things are good, it’s magic.”
– Lisa McMann, Fade (via simply-quotes)
“While living on the planet Earth, our role is to foster sacred relationships...”
– Craig Junjulas (via fernsandmoss)
“[I knew the moment well.] How often I had witnessed it in others, and yet now it...”
– Nicole Krauss, from Great House (via the-final-sentence)
“If I am to forfeit a parcel of my soul
Let it be for passion
Not for profit”
– Craig Junjulas (via fernsandmoss)
“Life is for deep kisses,
strange adventures,
midnight swims, and
rambling...”
– Etiquette for a Lady (via parfumdefleurs)
December 2011
13 posts
“I am the dust in the sunlight, I am the ball of the sun. I am the mist of...”
– Rumi (via suzywire)
“[I had the idea that the world’s so full of pain
it must sometimes make a kind...”
– Robert Hass, from “Faint Music” (via the-final-sentence)
“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining...”
– Wallace Stegner, Wilderness Letter (via fernsandmoss)
“Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via elige)
“Through my tears
I found god
in myself
and I loved her
fiercely”
– Ntozake Shange