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Do you think the dictionary ever says to itself
I’ve got these words that mean completely
different things inside myself
and it’s tearing me apart?
I’ve got these words that mean completely
different things inside myself
and it’s tearing me apart?
missbluestocking asked:
Good luck with the move!Thank you! It should be relatively painless. The biggest hurdle is that there’s just a month-long space where I’m paying rent on the new place and rent on the old place at the same time (my lease here in Birmingham isn’t done until July 1st). But it was either that, or pass up the opportunity for a great deal on a great house, so it’ll be worth it in the long run.
Planning a move to a new town is daunting and expensive. I think I’m going to run a big sale tomorrow to try to gather some funds so I can feed myself through this.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
Floodwater by Gabriel Gadfly
The rivers swelled that spring,
rose three feet an hour
until the front porch
looked out onto a sea
of muddy water.
There was nothing to do
but wait for the swell
to recede and wick back
down into the earth.
No way to reach town,
no supplies or news,
no power, so we scrounged
what we could
from the back of the pantry:
cans of white beans
and tinned meat
and a mason jar
full of last year’s
apricot preserves.
I lit a candle, and that night
we sat on the porch,
wrapped each other
in your grandmother’s
old hand stitched quilt
and ate those sticky
sweet gold preserves
of slices of crusty bread.
Listen to the water rushes by,
watch the candle flame flicker,
your mouth is sweet gold, too,
let the waters never drop.
This poem © Gabriel Gadfly. Published May 17th, 2013.
“Do not fall in love with people like me
we will take you to
museums and parks
and monuments
and kiss you in every beautiful
place so that you can
never go back to them
without tasting us
like blood in your mouth”
(Source: nubesque)
“Commitment,” a newspaper blackout by Austin Kleon
“So if you really go the whole way and see how you feel at the prospect of vanishing forever. Have all your efforts, and all your achievements, and all your attainments turning into dust and nothingness. What is the feeling? What happens to you?
That’s what it’s all going to come to.
And for some reason or other, we are supposed to find this depressing.
Do you see in a way, how that is saying: the most real state is the state of nothing?
But if somebody is going to argue that the basic reality is nothingness. Where does all this come from? Obviously from nothingness. Once again you get how it looks behind your eyes. You see?
See? So in this way, by seeing that nothingness is the fundamental reality, and you see it’s your reality. Then how can anything contaminate you? All the idea of you being scared, and put out and worried, and so on, this is nothing, it’s a dream. Because you’re really nothing. But this is most incredible nothing.
So cheer up you see?
The essence of your mind is intrinsically pure. Pure means clear, void.
See? If you think of this idea of nothingness as mere blankness, and you hold onto this idea of blankness then kind of grizzly about it, you haven’t understood it. Nothingness is really like the nothingness of space, which contains the whole universe. All the sun and the stars and the mountains, and rivers, and the good men and bad men, and the animals, and insects, and the whole bit. All are contained in void. So out of this void comes everything and you are it. What else could you be?”
Alan Watts
Sources:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssf7P-Sgcrk
http://liveasbrothers.blogspot.com/2011/04/state-of-nothing-alan-watts.html
I love the smooth feel of a brand new computer mouse. Wasn’t expecting to spend $25 on one today, though. But I dropped my old one and it stopped working, so it was a necessary purchase.
