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August 2011

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“History repeats itself with my encouragement. Because the only happiness I know is the happiness I’ve known, and I spend every rainy-on-the-inside day searching for a replica of a warmth I’ve felt before, from a sunny day I’ve already soaked in and a starry night I’ve already fallen asleep under the blanket of. It’s why I don’t let go of the people who once-upon-a-time melted me like butter when they brushed my shoulder. It’s why I hit harsh blunts, and eat four peoples’ servings of cake, and burn my throat taking shots of pocket-change vodka. It’s because I’ve memorized the things that make me buzz. And when I start to lose the tingle, my instincts send me back to the root of the thrill. I wind up at the intersection of past and future, trying to make them match. I convince myself that the present is falling short, if I even notice that it exists at all. ” —
Aug 20, 2011

I am standing upon that foreshore.

A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength and I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white clouds just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other.

Then someone at my side says, “There! She’s gone!”

“Gone where?”

“Gone from my sight, that’s all.”

She is just as large in mast and spar and hull as ever she was when she left my side; just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of her destination.

Her diminished size is in me, not in her.

And just at that moment when someone at my side says, “There! She’s gone!” there are other eyes watching her coming and other voices ready to take up the glad shout, “Here she comes!”

Aug 19, 2011
“many people die with their music still in them.” —
Aug 16, 2011
“It was confusing, frankly, the way everyone stared at our bodies even as they tried to erase the ideas of our bodies from our own minds. We were supposed to get over ourselves, but no one was supposed to get over us. The female body was our worst handicap and our best advantage—the surest means to success, the surest course to failure.” —Hilary Thayer Hamann
Aug 6, 2011
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