December 2009
29 posts
You might feel like you’re made of water and that if you step over a crack that you’ll just dissolve into it. And it sort of feels like your heart relocated to the soles of your feet, carrying all the weight instead of simply floating inside you. But your heart is still beating. You’re still alive.
My tumblarity is at 7, guys! I’m the 7th most popular tumblrer! (That’s how that works, right?) ;)
“One Christmas Eve, exhausted, about to go to bed having put all the presents under the tree, I remembered that our neighbor had asked us to feed his sheep every day he was gone. The snow was falling — this was in Vermont - my brother and I went down the hill to feed the sheep. We went into the barn and we got the bales of hay. We took them out into the sheep shed, cut the string,...
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Dashboard Confessional set list 12/17 at The Loft, Atlanta
The Brilliant Dance
The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
The Good Fight
Where There’s Gold, There’s A Gold Digger
Belle of the Boulevard
Bend and not Break
Again I Go Unnoticed
Screaming Infidelities
Saints and Sailors
Everybody Learns From Disaster
one of his guitarist’s songs
The Swiss Army Romance
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“It scares me to think that despite spending 20 years of my life teaching and...”
– kelly oxford’s greatest run-on sentence (via kellyoxford)
So maybe I read this and started sobbing today. I’m a woman and I can sob whenever I want to. I give this book 2 thumbs up.
Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it. God Himself was pulled after us into the vortex we made when we fell, or so the story goes. And while He was on earth He mended families. He gave Lazarus back to his mother, and to the centurion he gave his...
“You know, that whole renewal of hope that occurs in that collision of a moment of meeting a person who will completely alter the path of your life, pace of your heart, etc”
some "Dear Abby" advice
Mr. Right Calls, You’ve Got the Date - How do you Act?
“Don’t clown or wrestle. It’s unladylike. Many boys who are socially unsure of themselves find it embarrassing to be with the noisiest girl in the place. As for wrestling, I wouldn’t recommend it on a date unless you are prepared to lose. And besides, it’s unladylike.”
You learn something new...
“When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted...”
– G. K. Chesterton
WatchThe Avett Brothers - Slight Figure of Speech
(you will likely see this album on my top albums of 2009)
