I am rooted, but I flow

berkeleydwellers: “The minds here, the intelligence, the...

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:12:29 -0700

“The minds here, the intelligence, the education people have is incredible. But I don’t like the self-congratulatory aspect that breeds.”

this has got to be my new favorite blog (and I saw one of my friends on it, too!)

mashable. com/2013/05/22/social-media-babies/

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:41:45 -0700

if it bothers you that I’m posting what I want to post on my Facebook or Tumblr, please feel free to unfriend or unfollow me

hey remember when I chopped off all my hair last February yeah today I got a very serious and very...

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:47:27 -0700

hey remember when I chopped off all my hair last February yeah today I got a very serious and very strong urge to do that again welp

"Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:25:00 -0700

“Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don’t care what you’ll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”

- Albert Camus, from Notebooks, 1951-1959 (via violentwavesofemotion)

"If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:01:38 -0700

“If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only one thing: you can become better yourself.”

- Leo Tolstoy (via explore-blog)

Bear Facts has been updated… Straight A’s

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:28:00 -0700

Bear Facts has been updated…

Straight A’s

"At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:39:22 -0700

“At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.”

- F.Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920)

you know how sometimes you’ve been over your cold for a while but you just keep coughing up...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:39:10 -0700

you know how sometimes you’ve been over your cold for a while but you just keep coughing up the nasty stuff, that always happens when I’m back in this godforsaken town, I’m not quite sure why

why don’t we blame the dust on my window sill?

we had a very happy reunion today!

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:34:33 -0700

we had a very happy reunion today!

Solzhenitsyn on Beauty

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:22:38 -0700

onancientpaths:

“Archaeologists have not yet discovered any stage of human existence without art. Even in the half-light before the dawn of humanity we received this gift from Hands we did not manage to discern. Nor have we managed to ask: Why was this gift given to us and what are we to do with it?

And all those prophets who are predicting that art is disintegrating, that it has used up all its forms, that it is dying, are mistaken. We are the ones who shall die. And art will remain. The question is whether before we perish we shall understand all its aspects and all its ends.

Not all can be given names. Some of them go beyond words. Art opens even the chilled, darkened heart to high spiritual experience. Through the instrumentality of art we are sometimes sent—vaguely, briefly—insights which logical processes of thought cannot attain.

Like the tiny mirror of the fairy tale: you look into it and see—not yourself—but for one fleeting moment the Unattainable to which you cannot leap or fly. And the heart aches…” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, from Beauty Will Save the World

"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:14:53 -0700

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via bookmania)

girlwiththecompasstattoo: The Mowgli’s — San Francisco

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:35:43 -0700

girlwiththecompasstattoo:

The Mowgli’s — San Francisco

slightly ashamed to admit that this was the hardest I’ve...

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:01:17 -0700

slightly ashamed to admit that this was the hardest I’ve laughed during this show so far

"‎Later that night I held an atlas in my lap ran my fingers across the whole world and..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:02:01 -0700

“

‎Later that night
I held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?

It answered
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere.

”

- Warsan Shire (via loveyourchaos)

"I don’t want to be a feminist anymore. Like a five-year-old, I want to close my eyes, stick my..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:01:42 -0700

“

I don’t want to be a feminist anymore. Like a five-year-old, I want to close my eyes, stick my fingers in my ears, stomp my feet on the floor and scream “No! No, you cannot make me, I won’t, leave me alone!” I am, simply put, too tired. So very, very tired.

I am tired of fighting with my friends. I am tired of arguing that someone groping and slapping my butt isn’t “what I have to expect”, just because I’m at a bar, and the one attacking my butt has a drink in the other hand. I am tired of hearing “boys will be boys” and “when you’re dressed like that …” and “that’s just what guys do”. I am tired of trying to drown those sentiments in loud, repetitive no’s, screamed over and over again, till my throat is sore and my voice weak – just to hear them repeated, as soon as exhaustion threatens to silence me.

I am tired of being afraid. I am tired of seeing someone writing something offensive, sexist, racist, ageist, ableist, somewhere online. I am tired of seeing those writings getting likes and lol’s, and SO TRUE’s. I am tired of being consumed by confusion and anger, typing, typing, typing and typing a seemingly endless response, including research, links and statistics, and then hesitate clicking “submit”. I am tired of knowing that I hesitate because I am afraid of the flood of responses that will come. I am tired of knowing that I will be bombarded with lighten up’s, stop whining’s and get a sense of humor’s for so long, that I will start to wonder if I am indeed wound up too tight, a nagger and humorless. I am tired of the fact that I’m afraid of being called a cunt, even though I don’t find genitalia insulting or demeaning.

”

- I don’t want to be a feminist anymore (via coffeeurlgirl)

currently re-reading in preparation for the movie

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:02:11 -0700

currently re-reading in preparation for the movie

"Life is pleasant. Life is good. The mere process of life is satisfactory. Take the ordinary man in..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:01:45 -0700

“Life is pleasant. Life is good. The mere process of life is satisfactory. Take the ordinary man in good health. He likes eating and sleeping. He likes the snuff of fresh air and walking at a brisk pace down the Strand. Or in the country there’s a cock crowing on a gate; there’s a foal galloping round a field. Something always has to be done next. Tuesday follows Monday; Wednesday Tuesday. Each spreads the same ripple of well-being, repeats the same curve of rhythm; covers fresh sand with a chill or ebbs a little slackly without. So the being grows rings; identity becomes robust. What was fiery and furtive like a fling of grain cast into the air and blown hither and thither by wild gusts of life from every quarter is now methodical and orderly and flung with a purpose - so it seems.”

- Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via bookmania)

can’t wait to fall in love with her writing this summer/fall

Photo

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:06:01 -0700

kawaii-gang: Sweater Weather | The Neighbourhood

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:22:35 -0700

kawaii-gang:

Sweater Weather | The Neighbourhood

thehappycorner: Something’s Haunting You - She & Him

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:38:03 -0700

thehappycorner:

Something’s Haunting You - She & Him