February 2012
6 posts
Naivety
Do you ever get the feeling that you have been swept up by Life and you don’t quite have the energy to resist it? And that maybe, hopefully, Life knows what its doing so you just go along for the ride with the hopes that in the end it will drop you off into quieter waters that lead you to better places.
What do I know anyway? I don’t want to be passive in my life, I know its...
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“They say that the world was built for two
Only worth living if somebody is...”
– Lana del Ray
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“Your soul is the whole world”
– Siddhartha
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State of Motion.
Today was one of those moments where I had a what is my life moment.
There was no real reason for it. I was sitting on a bench reading a book, a book about String theory so that probably what got me started on this train of thought, but I just stopped and looked up and had A Moment. Specifically after reading this,
“According to special relativity, no longer can space and time be thought...
January 2012
11 posts
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“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and...”
– Alan Watts (via colordesignlife)
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”There are things you do because they feel right & they may make no sense & they may make no money & it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other & to eat each other’s cooking & say it was good.”
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Watch
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“Lauren, Lauren, don’t be triste, because in a future, in a day, you will...”
– A very wise Italian friend.
Resolutions.
Realizing that I never wrote down, or seriously thought about, my 2012 resolutions. So I guess here they are.
Join a dance company (first I guess, get back into dance, and improve.)
Become full time at the Boston Ballet
Take graphic design classes
Stay in shape
Italian.
Go back to Italy. Rome. Sicily.
Have at least ONE crazy trip adventure to somewhere I’ve never been before.
Be...
Shake It Out
“Regrets collect like old friends Here to relive your darkest moments I can see no way, I can see no way And all of the ghouls come out to play”
Im sorry, Im sorry, Im sorry….
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“I think there is something
in the Italian landscape
which inclines
even the...”
– A Room With a View
Nothing Like a Good Sunset.
The sky was on fire tonight.
December 2011
3 posts
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Peter Pan
“Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter when she was tidying up her children’s minds. It is the nightly custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day. If you could keep awake (but of course you can’t) you would see your...
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“‘I want to look into your eyes.’
She laughed, ‘why?...”
– The Night Watch
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November 2011
18 posts
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Lady Eve, Classic Movies
“I’ve just understood something. You see, every time I’ve looked at you here on the boat, it wasn’t only here I saw you. You seemed to go way back. I know that isn’t clear but I, I saw you here and at the same time further away, and then still further away; and then very small, like converging perspective lines. No, that isn’t it, it’s like, like people...
Lady Eve
Charles: I was just gonna say I could imagine a life with you being a series of ups and downs, lights and shadows, some irritation, but very much happiness.
Jean: Why Hopsie! Are you proposing to me so soon?
Charles: No, of course not. I'm just...
Jean: Then you ought to be more careful. People have been sued for much less.
Charles: Not by girls like you.
Jean: Don't you know it's dangerous to trust people you don't know very well?
Charles: But I know you very well.
Jean: No, I mean the people you haven't known very long.
Charles: I've known you a long time in a way.
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“Wings wouldn’t help you
Wings wouldn’t help you…down
Down...”
– Bon Iver
In My Mind
In my mind In a future five years from now I’m a hundred and twenty pounds And I never get hungover Because I Will be the picture of discipline Never minding what state I’m in And I will be someone I admire And it’s funny how I imagined That I would be that person now But it does not seem to have happened Maybe I’ve just forgotten how To see That I’m not exactly...
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Its not even Thanksgiving yet.
Can I just say,
Im watching ABC family, and they are advertising a TV special for the “Countdown to the 25 Days of Christmas.”
Wait.
So you’re telling me that we are at the point where we are counting down to…a countdown??
WHY IS CHRISTMAS CONSTANTLY COMNG EARLIER AND EARLIER.
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October 2011
10 posts
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Landlocked Blues
“And the world’s got me dizzy again
You think after 22 years I’d be used to the spin
And it only feels worse when I stay in one place So I’m always pacing around or walking away I keep drinking the ink from my pen And I’m balancing history books up on my head But it all boils down to one quotable phrase If you love something, give it away”
-Bright Eyes
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Bookends
“Time it was and what a time it was it was, A time of innocence a time of confidences. Long ago it must be, I have a photograph Preserve your memories, they’re all that’s left you”
-Simon and Garfunkle
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“You must train your intuition — you must trust the small voice inside you...”
– Ingrid Bergman
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“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are...”
– Scott Peck
“There’s something magical about a still photograph - a captured moment in time -...”
– Jamie Beck
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Come and Find me
“Though I’m here in this far off place
My air is not this time and space I draw you close with every breath you don’t know it’s right until it’s wrong You don’t know it’s yours until it’s gone I didn’t know that it was home ‘til you up and left”
-Josh Ritter
September 2011
21 posts
Wise Words
“This is America,
Pick a job and then become the person that does it.”
-Mad Men
‘I compare her to a fallen leaf. The noiseless wheels of my car rush with a crackling sound over dried leaves as I bow and pass smiling.”