June 2011
more elements of dream house/ things to implement...
How fun. Color me Katie put a bubble machine in her shower.
which reminds me, I want to get some rainbow makers on my windows.
and also star celing lighting.
From an article called "How not to obsess about...
These are all really good points, and not just about wearing a swimsuit but for life:
1. It’s my BODY. I live with it 100% of the time. It does awesome things for me like breathing, and walking, and swimming and I decided long ago that I am not going to allow anyone to convince me to hate or be ashamed of something that I am with 100% of the time for the rest of my life. I get to choose...
Advice for guys on first dates
Went on yet another date! Well I’ve honed the art now so it’s really more a meeting than a date. Well it was boring as can be. He didn’t ask me any queries. I tried to just ask him questions and get to know him, but I kept having an argument in my head “tor don’t be self centered just try to get to know him- don’t resent having to be interested in him, just listen and learn” and yet I couldn’t...
Some books
Today I read/skimmed many books in a lovely afternoon with self at Borders.
Some thoughts:
Veganist by Kathy Freston: I have to become vegan again. I don’t think it’ll be too hard to do after the horrifying descriptions of abuse at egg and dairy farms. I ate eggs tonight and felt weird eating them. All I could think of while reading it is a feeling of certainty that “this is...
New Poem Translations from Toyo Shibata
Dripping Water from the tap Doesn’t stop
No matter how hard, Even if you are sad No matter what Brooding over it Won’t do
With all your heart Close the tap. All at once, the tears Will be shed.
Come now, let’s have some coffee In a new cup.
——
The water Poured out of A pot Has a feeling of Kind words.
My heart’s sugar cubes Feel good in the cup And melt away.
...
Review of the tv show Say Yes to The Dress
I have been watching Say Yes to the Dress on Netflix to destress. This is a show about Kleinfeld, the biggest bridal store in the world, where women come to select their dream wedding dress.
At first I thought it was a shallow show, but it really has a lot going on the more…seasons…you see of it.
There is, first of all, getting to know the different brides to be, and catching a...
hungry is the man or woman
lolcatz
risky business
Some fortune cookies contain no fortune
1,2
end curse
elements of my dream house, part 2
self explanatory
a seltzer cellar
an old-fashioned theater for plays
the nursery
three in the nursery fast asleep
study
1,2
lol
...
1,2
could be
1,2
lucky you make this choice
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The Mountain School of Milton Academy
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gods
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Some photos by Boubat
some photos
Thoughts on the end of my Salsa Classes
I do not think salsa dancing is for me.
As a girl you are just a blind follower in salsa.
Well maybe not blind, since you must skillfully respond to and even anticipate the moves of your partner. Kind of like a highly obedient dog. In fact, it reminds me of the dog whisperer’s terminology— “calm assertive” (appropriate pack leader state of mind) and “calm...
Summer Solstice
Tonight was the Summer Solstice.
I went on a date, which ended badly. He asked are you bored? and I was, but I said “um no, I’m listening to what you are saying” but then he was like, you can tell me if you’re bored, and i just repeated my lame “no, i’m listening to what you are saying,” but finally i admitted, “well maybe slightly bored.”
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The Sense of Something Coming
photo by chocolatecircus
Transcendentalist Yearbook
Thoreau
Emerson
Whitman
Alcott
Dickinson
