January 2011
51 posts
“Through all your trials, you may have underestimated the strength of your...”
– Capricorn : AstrologyZone’s January Horoscope : Astrology Zone
“She is a liberal in the sense that she finds it difficult to write directly...”
– The Homecoming : The New Yorker
Five Flights Up
Still dark.
The unknown bird sits on his usual branch.
The little dog next door barks in his sleep
inquiringly, just once.
Perhaps in his sleep, too, the bird inquires
once or twice, quavering.
Questions—if that is what they are—
answered directly, simply,
by day itself.
Enormous morning, ponderous, meticulous;
gray light streaking each bare branch,
each single twig, along...
“Who says the decline of prostitution and the rise of love took the...”
– n+1: Dating
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Warming Mustard Bath
Yields enough for 4 baths Ingredients * 1 cup baking soda * 1/4 cup mustard powder * 6 drops wintergreen essential oil * 6 drops rosemary essential oil * 6 drops eucalyptus essential oil Instructions 1. Using a whisk, combine all ingredients together in a lidded container. 2. When ready to use, add around 4 tablespoons of powder to a running bath. Swish the water around with...
“The only way I’ve ever gotten to the next phase of my life is when the rug...”
– Naomi
“Do you know how to give good oral sex? It’s all about visualizing it right....”
– Please Listen To … The Hairpin
You also write really affectingly about the lure of heartbreak. At what point do we grow out of that impulse to be with the person who doesn’t want to be with us?
Well, I think that it gets more and more painful, because it gets repeated. You go through the experience of being rejected and instead of asking yourself why you would choose someone that actively rejects you, you ask yourself, What...
There once was a hausfrau named Phoebe →
becca wrote about love and it's obviously amazing. →
“The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can only clarify in paint.”
—Georgia O’Keeffe
"Dear, my compass ..."
Dear, my compass
still points north
to wooden houses
and blue eyes,
fairy-tales where
flaxen-headed
younger sons
bring home the goose,
love in hay-lofts,
Protestants, and
heavy drinkers …
Springs are backward,
but crab apples
ripen to rubies,
cranberries
to drops of blood,
and swans can paddle
icy water,
so hot the blood
in those webbed feet.
—Cold as it is,...
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“I know: 2011.
Like 2010 plus one!”
– marisa meltzer (via karaj)
“Check alcohol content when buying booze. High Life is 5%. Lovely.”
– Bridget’s Value-Minded Guide to Life | Ann Friedman
Also, hell yes on the castile soap tip. Fools who use Dr. Bronners without diluting it are throwing money down the draaaaaaaain.
Hot Tip For Getting Out Period Stains →
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