January 2010
21 posts
I love my new skin
Just finished watching The Diving bell and the...
And I’m starting to wonder, what kind of people would stand by my bedside if i became paralyzed? My relationships with people seem so ephemeral. You meet one person and they’re gone the next. And I let them. But maybe I should have asked them to stay. People can be independent, accept the fact that sometimes they are alone. But in the end, you always have to reach out when you can....
Well, I'll be darned. It's Lee Miller in Hitler's...
“The night after Miller visited Dachau, on April 30, 1945–earlier that day Hitler committed suicide in Berlin–Miller and Scherman entered Munich with the American 45th Division that was liberating the city. They happened upon a dilapidated and normal-looking apartment building on Prinzenregentplatz 27, and realized, upon entering, that it was Hitler’s Munich apartment. They billeted there...
art is infinite →
I would be thouroughly impressed if someone could name them all. I myself could only recognize a handful of them.
Silently, she surveyed the multitude of men, screaming, clashing, and fighting with the ferocity of a challenge against death. Their eyes burning with raging fires, their throats filled with battle-cries, and sweat wandering down their rippling muscles like small rivulets.
Finally, the time had come.
Ready, she stepped to the ledge, pent up the air in front of her, and swallowed the sweat,...
“Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live.” -Tuck Everlasting
lovvvvvveeee the chords. makes me so happy...
I'm brainwashing myself with Thumbelina music...
“Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you...”
– Chinese Proverb
Compassion in a world full of suspicion
A story has it that, while staying in Paris, R.M. Rilke, the famous German poet, on his route to the University each day walked by a lady beggar. The woman always sat in the same corner, frozen as a statute, her hand outstretched and her eyes lowered. Rilke’s friend, who often gave the lady beggar some change, once asked him why he never gave anything to the poor soul. He replied: “I would have...
interaction vs. reaction=human communication vs....
“If you’ve done something without really knowing why, you’ve just...”
I challenge myself....
to live my life to its fullest.
Maybe I would have been Something you’d be...
“I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my...”
– Herman Hesse, Demian
