despair →
it is difficult for me to describe the magnetism of rio de janeiro, especially whe confronted with the reality shown in these pictures... →
“… teenaged girls are the most maligned, undervalued portion of the population, as though they’re all gossip girls. They can be very smart and attuned to the world. But it isn’t a demographic we associate with literary genius.”
molly lambert in this recording, on fires making a forest →
(via mhight)
this reminds me of the borges quote:
“Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204488304574429070364650290.html
are you fucking kidding me? at least in wall-e the fat worthless humans were sitting up, sortof. i love being in bed just as much as the next person, but this is abhorrent.
This song is the only reason I got out of bed this morning.
But young people err so often and so grievously in this: that they (in whose nature it lies to have no patience) fling themselves at each other, when love takes possession of them, scatter themselves, just as they are, in all their untidiness, disorder, confusion … And then what? What is life to do to this heap of half-battered existence which they call their communion and which they would gladly call their happiness, if it were possible, and their future? Thus each loses himself for the sake of the other and loses the other and many others that wanted still to come. And loses the expanses and the possibilities, exchanges the approach and flight of gentle, divining things for an unfruitful perplexity out of which nothing can come any more, nothing save a little disgust, disillusionment and poverty, and rescue in one of the many conventions that have been put up in great number like public refuges along this most dangerous road. No realm of human experience is so well provided with conventions as this: life preservers of most varied invention, boats and swimming-bladders are here; the social conception has managed to supply shelters of every sort, for as it was disposed to take love-life as a pleasure, it had also to give it an easy form, cheap, safe and sure, as public pleasures are. {Skipping many lines} The demands which the difficult work of love makes upon our development are more than life-size, and as beginners we are not up to them. But if we nevertheless hold out and take this love upon us as burden and apprenticeship, instead of losing ourselves in all the light and frivolous play, behind which people have hidden from the most earnest earnestness of their existence - then a little progress and an alleviation will perhaps be perceptible to those who come long after us; that would be much.
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Rainer Maria Rilke, whose writing is another great relief in my life. Deep breath.
gray weather
it is finally gray and damp in dc. i can wear scarves and tights. this is a huge relief for me. the weather doesn’t make me feel happy or sad. it just makes me feel like whatever i am feeling is ok. like listening to wilco.
January Jones cares about sharks and she is coming to Washington D.C. to talk about shark conservation with legislators.
How fitting.
http://www.politico.com/click/stories/0909/mad_men_actress_to_d_c_.html
