September 2009
7 posts
On Thursday, one of my dearest friends celebrated two years of sobriety. In reflecting on what an incredible accomplishment this milestone represented, I was struck by an immensely comforting realization — that in a world and at an age at which life can often seem to happen to you, turning abruptly and irrevocably in frightening and unfamiliar directions, it is nevertheless most possible to...
on life, and being 25
words from a wonderful letter i received today (from a very wise friend).
“Every moment is only a moment. Be in it and not behind it or too far ahead of it. You are not too late to any party — you are right on time.
What’s done is done. There is only now. You are in the now and you have the future, but, I am sorry to say, even that is not a guarantee, and anyway, what you...
for the past three years...
…today included (why?), i have spent an immeasurable amount of time and energy telling someone, showing someone, closing my eyes and trying to emote to someone: “i love you. i. love. you. no matter what, always always always.”
and feeling, every time, like i am speaking to someone who doesn’t understand english, or like i’m banging my head against a wall, or like...
“I know that sometimes, you get the sense from TV that you can be rich and...”
– Yes, yes, yes. Every kid (and lots of adults and almost-adults, including me) need to hear this.
Obama speech to school children: ‘You make your own future’ - CNN.com (FULL TEXT) (via apsies) (via librarianpirate) (via sunnynsassy)
August 2009
8 posts
i'd like to thank
1) those nice folks at the nike runner’s station by stuyvesant high school for comping this bitch a bottle of water circa mile 8. this definitely means i can say i’m sponsored by nike.
2) the cinco de miami mix by sir vikas for getting me to the end of my run pretty much every day. also a crowd-pleaser at random fantasy football parties in sick apartment buildings across from 1oak...
Fifty people one question →
This video is beautiful. People are wonderful creatures, most of the time.
“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older...”
– David Foster Wallace (via thesevagabondshoes, via rachellehruska)
Is it lame at at age 24, 11 months, and 2 weeks I’m just now figuring out that, as Wallace says at the end of his speech, “This is water”?
This is water. We are swimming.
Life is now.
Yikes.
July 2009
2 posts
hi.
post #1. infinite internet-worlds of empty space to fill. (seemingly) infinite amounts of thoughts and nostalgia and words words words to fill it with. stage fright?