a quest
to italicize
a period does
not need anyone’s
approval anymore
than it requires
rude comments
about wasting time
in the middle of our
2nd plague…
— Caconrad from poem From “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Hour”
- I Am Too Alone In The World, And Yet Not Alone EnoughOnly someone who is ready for everything, who doesn’t exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being. — Rainer Maria Rilke I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that… Read more: I Am Too Alone In The World, And Yet Not Alone Enough
- When You Rise, Kiss The Tombstone Of Your PastWhen you rise, kiss the tombstone of your past and step barefoot into the garden of the future, the garden of infinitely forking paths — Maria Popova from poem How to Change Your Life
- But I Have My LifeBut I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there. — Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did. I don’t. — Veronica Roth, Divergent My guilt is an ocean for me to drown in. —… Read more: But I Have My Life
- Never Feel Guilty For Starting AgainNever feel guilty for starting again. — Rupi Kaur from The Sun and Her Flowers
- The Impeded Stream Is The One That SingsIt may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work and that when we no longer know which way to go we have begun our real journey. — Wendell Berry in No Enemies Within by Dawna Markova The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream… Read more: The Impeded Stream Is The One That Sings