January 2009
14 posts
“I have high hopes that this year will be the year the dumb girl in me finally...”
– Merrill Markoe
“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
– Dorothy Parker
“Real women are confident. Know yourself, love yourself, put up with zero...”
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Detach
I want to disconnect from my daily life. Just for a few months, at most a year. I don’t want to see a familiar face, hear a cell phone, read the WSJ or check my Gmail, work email, iGoogle, or Facebook. I want to be left alone long enough to figure out which thoughts in my head are really mine.
“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time,...”
– Sylvia Plath
Restless
I’m restless. Have been from months. Nothing seems to fit right…job, friends, living situation. Especially the job. Its like a wool sweater. No amount of tugging at the neck line or shoving the sleeves up and down, offers prolonged relief from the itching.
“When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you...”
– Schopenhauer
bereft.
The mind can become too full and so can the heart. But at times life itself can feel so empty despite everything else being on the verge of spilling over. Worries, dreams, and other mixtures of emotions can all keep you up later than usual. Then you awaken with a disoriented mind and disoriented thoughts. Everything and everyone feeling so far away. It’s a loneliness that creeps in. Lonely for far...
“Never be the brightest person in the room; then you can’t learn anything.”
– Why Discovering Your Obsession Can Lead to Your Greatness | Zen Habits
the things we whisper in the trees.
If I took off my skin, would you still think of me as you did? If I revealed every skeleton and every scar, would you look at me with the same eyes? Maybe you would stick around. Or maybe you would just run off, too disgusted to remain here another minute. There are so many things I never want you to know; things that turn the skies to ink. My graveyard is full and if I had my way, you would...