March 2011
29 posts
“What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.”
– Richard Wilbur
“Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you...”
– Anonymous
“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself...”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Gajar Ka Halwa
oh migod. YES. *drool*
indian-food:
“Beauty is before me, and beauty behind me,
Above me and below me hovers the...”
– Navajo Prayer
(via heartmindspirit)
“A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.”
– Adlai Stevenson, American politician
Polka Dots
So you stare
And you stare
The skin is rocky, it looks yellow like acid
The hair is coarse and shapeless
It has no body, no life
Like those eyes, so hollow and insipid
Sinking deeper and deeper into a shadow of those darkening holes
Slowly in the reflection of the light hanging above
The dark patterns on the face outline a skeleton.
Those lips are hanging upside down
Not red, not brown – it’s...
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So what?
Sometimes, you just want to empty all your thoughts, like pouring all the muddy polluted water from a jar into the deep deep ocean. You sit by the edge and stare into the dark blue whirl, hoping to have your thoughts cleansed, rejuvenated and ready to be collected again. But it never happens. It just floats into a stream of never-ending nothingness and you sit there, on the shore, like an idiot,...
Questions
What does Bangladesh mean to me?
Sunshine and poverty.
I too, believe...
When we learn to read too passively, deferentially, or vicariously, we become less willing to assert our values through action by calmly and reasonably defying other authority figures when they direct us to do something at a variance with out conscience. When it becomes habitual, reading, as a movement of the mind and heart, becomes predictable, inflexible, [and] resistant to novelty. I use...
