April 2010
79 posts
Audre Lorde - Stations
sistargirl:
Some women love to wait for life for a ring in the June light for a touch of the sun to heal them for another woman’s voice to make them whole to untie their hands put words in their mouths form to their passages sound to their screams for some other sleeper to remember their future their past.
Some women wait for their right train in the wrong station...
Out of the raw material you break down you grow and absorb the energy. You work yourself from inside out, tearing out, destroying, and finding a sense of nothingness. That nothingness allows God to come in. But this somethingness—ego and prejudices and limitations—is your raw material. If you process and refine it all, you can open consciously. Otherwise, you will never come to anything that...
bonesarecoralmade:
ideleteme + projectgutenberg:
Jack: How can you sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.
Algernon: Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.
- Oscar...
“In San Francisco, I wandered into a maze that was sometimes peopled and sometimes empty, sometimes brightly lit and sometimes so dark that I had to grope my way along it with my hands, heart pounding with fear that I would never find my way out. I quickly became lost, and it seemed like almost everyone I met was lost, too. Sometimes it seemed to me an empty life, but that wasn’t...
Capricorn - The great thing about this current Mercury retrograde in your 5th House is that it connects so beautifully to the incredible evolutionary power of Pluto in your 1st House of self and identity. The 5th House describes your creativity, love and enjoyment of life. And I know you can look back right now and think of at least three times in the past when you were bursting with creativity...
bonesarecoralmade:
There is an inherent conflict between the peace of total solitude and the pleasures of companionship, he admitted. “It’s literally like living in heaven on Earth,” he said of the island, but “I guess I could say I’m desperately lonely sometimes.”
Where Home Is Really About Getting Away From It All
expulsis piratis, restituta commercia.: “I’m not a... →
“I’m not a misanthropic recluse sort of guy,” he said. “I just know that I’d rather be here by myself.”
Once a week, though, he does venture to Anacortes, a town on the mainland, 10 miles away by boat, to visit his 99-year-old father in an assisted-living home and to see his girlfriend, Deborah…
bonesarecoralmade:
Still, island life took its toll. “I got attacked by loneliness,” said Mr. Lextrait, who came to depend on the company of his German shepherd mix, TouTou. He would often forgo shaving and dressing, he said, and “I started talking to myself. Sometimes I felt like an animal.”
Where Home Is Really About Getting Away From It All
The Answer
Debasement is the password of the base, Nobility the epitaph of the noble. See how the gilded sky is covered With the drifting twisted shadows of the dead.
The Ice Age is over now, Why is there ice everywhere? The Cape of Good Hope has been discovered, Why do a thousand sails contest the Dead Sea?
I came into this world Bringing only paper, rope, a shadow, To proclaim before the judgment The...
“My people were not remarkable. We were ordinary, but even so we were mythical....”
– Dorothy Alison, Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature (pp. 13-14 of my edition) (via lookuplookup) (via materialworld) (via curate)
“I still think it’s important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of...”
– Bell Hooks (via michellehaimoff) (via missworld)
Reposted for auntesther(cause we talk about this shit alot!)
