October 2010
September 2010
“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.”
—Eve Ensler (via crookedindifference)
Listen
Creedence Clearwater Revival, “Born on the Bayou”.
Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen The Rain? (1971)
I met an old man named Don in a bar the other night. We discussed the movie The Quiet Man, with John Wayne and Maureen O’hara, and briefly sang “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain When She Comes”. Before he left, he leaned over and told me “you can never do what you want to do”. He seemed sad, like he was looking his past dead in the eye and it was full of regrets.
“A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span, in effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child. And I have searched myself for this possibility with a kind of horror. For I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I’ve lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment. I did not want to surrender fierceness for a small gain in yardage.”
—John Steinbeck (via lanthorn)
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
—Henry David Thoreau
Wish me luck...
“On my tombstone they will carve, “IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (via backphat)
Me, a cup of tea, a hot bubble bath, and a good book.
-The end
