November 2011
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nutcracker rehearsal - 11.26.11
my little sister, ballerina.
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Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or...
– Anne Lamott, Bird By Bird
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October 2011
6 posts
When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement....
– Mary Oliver
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In short, all good things are wild and free. There is something in a strain of...
– Thoreau, Walking (this essay is certainly worth a read. or re-read, if you are like me and haven’t read it since being forced to in high school English class.)
September 2011
1 post
In speaking of this desire for our own faroff country, which we find in...
– C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
July 2011
2 posts
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down...
– When You Are Old William Butler Yeats
Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which...
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
June 2011
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live...
– G.K. Chesterton
March 2011
1 post