soLOVEy

Luckiest.

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:19:40 -0400

I don’t know how I got so lucky, but I’ll take it.

Two perfect days in a row. Oh, life- your twists and turns amaze me.

Perfection

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:48:15 -0400

Everything about my last day of classes was perfect, everything.

I am the world’s luckiest girl (woman).

My approach to all job applications

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:05:39 -0400

breakingintopublishing:

haahahahaha….yes.

yes, I am.

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:31:18 -0400

yes, I am.

wordpainting: cinderellainrubbershoes: “…Reading the right one...

Sat, 11 May 2013 13:08:10 -0400

wordpainting:

cinderellainrubbershoes:

“…Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.”

-Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz and the Evil Librarians series

Indeed.

This made me grin.

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:36:27 -0400

Person: hey have you read any good books lately?
Me: are you ready for this conversation

wordpainting: Life’s necessities. My life in exactly one week.

Fri, 10 May 2013 10:57:18 -0400

wordpainting:

Life’s necessities.

My life in exactly one week.

wordpainting: garrott: This is water. In 2005, author David...

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:28:20 -0400

wordpainting:

garrott:

This is water.

In 2005, author David Foster Wallace was asked to give the commencement address to the 2005 graduating class of Kenyon College. However, the resulting speech didn’t become widely known until 3 years later, after his tragic death. It is, without a doubt, some of the best life advice we’ve ever come across, and perhaps the most simple and elegant explanation of the real value of education.

We made this video, built around an abridged version of the original audio recording, with the hopes that the core message of the speech could reach a wider audience who might not have otherwise been interested. However, we encourage everyone to seek out the full speech (because, in this case, the book is definitely better than the movie).

(h/t machaffer.)

[Nice illustrative film adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech titled This is Water.]

I’m going to my last undergraduate class in two hours. OMG D.F.W. HAS MADE ME CRY.

Photo

Thu, 09 May 2013 07:48:45 -0400

"“If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness.” [wow.]"

Thu, 09 May 2013 07:45:26 -0400

“

“If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness.”

[wow.]

”

- A phrase that was carved on the walls of a concentration camp cell during WWII by a Jewish prisoner (via milktree)

"A child’s reading is guided by pleasure, but his pleasure is undifferentiated; he cannot..."

Wed, 08 May 2013 20:30:17 -0400

““A child’s reading is guided by pleasure, but his pleasure is undifferentiated; he cannot distinguish, for example, between aesthetic pleasure and the pleasures of learning or daydreaming. In adolescence we realize that there are different kinds of pleasure, some of which cannot be enjoyed simultaneously, but we need help from others in defining them. Whether it be a matter of taste in food or taste in literature, the adolescent looks for a mentor in whose authority he can believe. He eats or reads what his mentor recommends and, inevitably, there are occasions when he has to deceive himself a little; he has to pretend that he enjoys olives or War and Peace a little more than he actually does. Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the difference between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity. Few of us can learn this without making mistakes, without trying to become a little more of a universal man than we are permitted to be. It is during this period that a writer can most easily be led astray by another writer or by some ideology. When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, ‘I know what I like,’he is really saying ‘I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu’, because, between twenty and forty, the surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it. After forty, if we have not lost our authentic selves altogether, pleasure can again become what it was when we were children, the proper guide to what we should read.””

- W.H. Auden; The Dyer’s Hand (via wordpainting)

"The world will knock you down plenty. You don’t need to be doing it to yourself."

Tue, 07 May 2013 17:12:13 -0400

“The world will knock you down plenty. You don’t need to be doing it to yourself.”

- Elizabeth Scott, Perfect You (via erraticintrovert)

forever-the-optimist: smarter-not-harder: authoritydangerheartk...

Mon, 06 May 2013 12:12:06 -0400

forever-the-optimist:

smarter-not-harder:

authoritydangerheartkilljoy:

douchebaggens:

emmagrant01:

mominmudville:

seschend:

#17 is my absolute favorite of these new proverbs.

pbsparents:

BRILLIANT.

Source: teach-from-the-heart.blogspot.com/

OMG. #22 is my new motto. Lol…

This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in ages, OMG.

You know what they say Better late than pregnant.

These are a group of smart and sassy first graders.

incredible, love kids so smart

18 and 25 are my favorites

I just think all of these are fantastic.

I'm so passionately happy that our future is becoming meatless!

Thu, 02 May 2013 09:29:16 -0400

I'm so passionately happy that our future is becoming meatless!

Post 101

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:57:02 -0400

I feel like I’m on a cliff. I’ve been running along a beaten path for 21 years and now I have to jump into nothingness. Yes, the possibilities are endless; right?

struckbythewishingspell: #i have a spiritual connection w this...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:50:20 -0400

struckbythewishingspell:

#i have a spiritual connection w this gifset

Wow, my life right now!

simplydisneyariel: shwagerr: d4untles-s: extr4ordinary: o-rig...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:10:51 -0400

simplydisneyariel:

shwagerr:

d4untles-s:

extr4ordinary:

o-riginiall:

qlacier:

qirls:

hunqrystfu:

cant stop crying

Everyone needs to reblog this, this is so amazing.

im legit sobbing right now

This is the stuff that needs 47537476243 notes.

im crying so hard this is perfect

I am in tears omg

I will reblog this every time I see it

Is it bad that I relate to this video 100%? :(

Book Divas

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:55:46 -0400

I just started freelance blogging for Book Divas. We’re running a poetry contest for National Poetry Month. Feel free to enter or pass along the link to others. Barnes and Noble gift cards if you win!

DALAI LAMA

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:32:45 -0400

May 7.

I’m only a little excited. NO BIG.

STOP SCROLLING. I love you and I hope your day is going well. OKAY. CONTINUE.

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 21:16:40 -0400

STOP SCROLLING.

I love you and I hope your day is going well.

OKAY. CONTINUE.