“Some of the smartest people there were also the most committed. Intelligence doesn’t make you less prone to taking on bad ideas, it just makes you better at defending them to other people and to yourself. Smart people can believe some truly ridiculous things, and then deploy all the reason and logic at their disposal … More Cult(s) and “strong” words
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” ― Virginia Woolf “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” ― Mahatma Gandhi How long have you gone without eating? Can you imagine yourself in that state of … More Hungry
“I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.” ― Veronica Roth What I live by, and do on my “weak-days,” until my “weak-ends.” (A summary) When life gets too complicated.I go simple. When a buffalo sees a storm coming. They walk towards it. … More “Weak-days.” “Weak-ends.”
In the void I was never really lost. I thought I was, and I was right. I still was. Was, but not lost. In between “founds” There is a stillness in the void. A quiet, beyond quiet. An absence, full of density. A darkness felt, not seen. Voids are everywhere. They are the in between. … More A Poem: “The Void”
“MORE MORE MORE!” The hungry people cry. “MORE MORE MORE!” I have it all inside. I am made up of water. The lake in me is full. “I am” is on the boat. I can see fragments of value swimming. But I have to catch each one with a shiny hook *I feel like I … More A Poem: “The Catch”
“…I am my adolescent travels; I am what my reading has deposited in layers in my mind; I am my loves, my moments of despair, my friendships, what I’ve written, what I’ve heard; the faces engraved on my memory. I am, above all, the one who a minute ago made a cup of tea for … More Boxes
“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” -Shannon L. Alder On February 28th, 2021, I found out my marriage was over. Today is February 28th, 2022. (Tomorrow is March 1st, 2022.) *if anyone was wondering* My “D-Day” was at … More What. A. Freaking. Year.
There are many things we “want”. There are much fewer things we “yearn” for. -Martha Beck I have been thinking about what I “yearn” for actively for quite some time now. My list is not fully complete because I am not fully complete. Yearning is NOT Wanting. Yearning is the heart that beats. Wanting is … More Yearning
The big one. The thing we all long for at our deepest core selves. Is it a thing? Is it an energy force? Is it a power? Is it tangible? What is “it”?!? Here are my TWO favorite definitions of love. *trust me. I’ve been looking for awhile. These are CREAM OF THE CROP* The … More Love
“You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.” -Elizabeth Gilbert I will fight anyone who says the end scene of “Time Travelers Wife” is not one of the most ROMANTIC scenes in all of movie history! That part (I will try not to spoil) when Rachel McAdams … More Time Travel
“A Cleverly Named Blog” with Aubrey 