May 2012
5 posts
“We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a...”
– Audre Lorde (via nirvikalpa)
More true every day.
Help one of my students pay for their AP exam! ...
private-revolution:
inothernews:
Fellow Tumblrers — please feel free to help Ray and his students out, if you can!
detroitsomething:
Dear followers, teachers, and the Tumblr #education community,
My name is Ray Stoeser and I am a second year English teacher at Crockett Technical High School in Detroit, MI. This year I had the amazing opportunity to be the AP Language and Composition...
what is this sad? tell it to leave
How am I so lucky?
I’m really not sure.
April 2012
13 posts
1 tag
I really disappoint myself, sometimes.
Life Analysis →
viviopsis:
chiara will marry a tasty author who likes to make love
this almost makes up for when you said I was made out of rhinos, bad luck, and awkwardness, random future generator.
ALMOST
….Rachel will marry a angry princess who likes to watch gay porn :P
“For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in...”
– —President Obama in North Carolina today on why Congress has to act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling (via barackobama)
an interesting quote.
1 tag
That awkward moment when it seems acceptable to...
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What are you making for your final?
This question has weighed heavily on me since our Place Particular critique. It seemed like the main response to the work I brought in (intercut audio, photos, etc.) was a question in itself – that’s nice, but where’s the art? It’s true that what I shared was, in essence, a slideshow “like you show at family reunions –“ and I guess ultimately what I...
Reblog with yourself
viviopsis:
sharkinthedungeon:
saucysoullesskangaroo:
philophile:
This speaks to everything that I identify with.
….howdee
fuck yeah sex education: Overcoming the Stigma of... →
onlinecounsellingcollege:
Stigma is when someone judges you based on a personal trait. Unfortunately, this is a common experience for people who have a mental health condition. Stigma may be obvious and direct, such as someone making a negative remark about your mental illness or your…
3 tags
Time's 100 most influential →
queerveganfeminist:
ipomoeaandthestarstealers:
ipsadixit:
some-disgraced-cosmonaut:
chockfullofhoot:
fullonmonet:
Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood, is up for inclusion in Time’s 100 most influential. Right now the vote is HEAVILY No Way. I think tumblr can fix that.
Tumblrfrayns, I beg of you…do this.
It might seem inconsequential, but Time has a giant readership...
“Ev’n then I felt —the brightest hour
I would not live again:
For on its...”
– Poe
3 tags
Because I came here with a load/And it feels so much lighter/Since I met you —And honey, you should know/That I could never go on without you —Green Eyes —
5 tags
This is from my good friend V/O’s...
1 tag
I am tired
tired
“I just wanted to tell you that I think you’re a great kid, and that I was...”
– the first message a now-old friend sent me on facebook.
great guy. funny how things turn out sometimes.
March 2012
7 posts
4 tags
Do you realize / that you have the most/beautiful face? Do you realize / we’re floating in space — Do you realize / that happiness / makes you cry? Do you realize / that everyone / you know / some day will die?
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes, let them know you realize that life goes fast, it’s hard to make the good things last, you realize the sun doesn’t go...
I think the reason I'm so averse to this tumblr is...
I’m frustrated that I don’t have the strength or courage to stand up like so many people that I admire and really speak. But, everything in due time. Until then, just a collection of disparate thoughts and moments, and I will read and learn and begin to know.
“My doctor encouraged me to write more. ‘Don’t kill yourself,’ he said. ‘Your...”
– Anne Sexton (via casimirpulaskiday)
“thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of...”
– -e.e. cummings (via fishingboatproceeds)
exactly this.
February 2012
8 posts
Can't do this.
January 2012
2 posts
I wish Tumblr had a “I feel your pain” button
because I feel terrible whenever I “like” one of your sad text posts
and it looks like I enjoy watching you suffer
because I don’t
I really don’t
at that point I like to think of it as just giving love to someone who needs it. a “give love” button as opposed to a “like” - the ambiguity of the heart leaves a little wiggle...
1 tag
haven't slept in a long time, haven't posted in a...
this place just drains me, I guess.
what else is there to do at 6 AM other than contemplate all the ways in which failure permeates everything, remember very slowly what it feels like to fall in love, or reach for the first time in many months the point at which one has no choice but to give up?
I’m tired, and sick, and with my filter gone I have no urge to throw a disclaimer on that.
...
December 2011
18 posts
10 Ways to Love Others
ohapoeticsoul:
Some guidelines for loving:
1. Tell them about their brilliance. They likely can’t see it and they don’t know its immensity, but you can see it, and you can illuminate it for them.
2. Be authentic, and give others the gift of the real you and a real relationship. Ask your real questions. Share your real beliefs. Go for your real dreams. Tell your truth.
3. Don’t confuse...
“I’m sorry, but it’s been a long time since I’ve talked about certain things. So...”
– A Happy Death by Albert Camus (via casimirpulaskiday)
you look great! have you lost weight?
broadist:
ATTN: “You look great! Have you lost weight?” is not a compliment. I know it has been the go-to praise-route towards many women since the inception of puberty, but I’d like to put an end to it. Why do I hear this like a broken record every holiday?
Some alternatives:
You look great! How are your new jobs going?
You look great! How is your blog doing?
You look great! Things seem to...
“I will remember the kisses
our lips raw with love
and how you gave me...”
– Charles Bukowski (via dondante)
I just want this on my dash again, this poem that I know so much better now.
“The whole idea of it makes me feel
like I’m coming down with something,...”
– On Turning Ten by Billy Collins (emphasis mine, just a few lines that resonated then and still do to some extent)
I remember this. I clung to it because it was the way I felt growing up, but now all I feel is that no matter how much time passes, everything is always growing and getting better, or...
casimirpulaskiday:
Why are you leaving me?
He wrote, I do not know how to live.
I do not know either but I am trying.
I do not know how to try.
There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him.
So I buried them and let them hurt me.
Jonathan Safran Foer
this.
“He Knows (he knows)
Or, I think he does
‘Cause when I lived
In the Arse...”
– He Knows I’d Love to See Him, Mozzer why yes it is obnoxious lyrics post saturday how did you know
2 tags
“It takes courage to interrogate yourself. It takes courage to look at the mirror...”
– Cornell West, Hope on a Tightrope (2008)