February 2012
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Our tribe
emilybooks:
by Rachel Monroe
I read the buddhist in one big thirsty gulp, lying on my bunk in the hostel during the hottest part of the day. I was avoiding talking to people – to the surfer from Alabama, to the irritating Russians. When I finished, it was just after 4 PM and the surfers were readying themselves for the next high tide. “That’s so gay,” the one from Alabama said, I’m not sure...
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“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert (via prima-volta)
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“After too few years, Daniel was gone. His big loving heart had a hole that...”
– Chapter
One of these days, Russann ought to write a book of all her stories. Please include this one, which made me cry into my lunch.
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““I was sheriff of this county when I was 25 years old. Hard to believe. My...”
– murmur & shout:
No Country for Old Men: opening monologue
There are aspects of this movie that mean more to me than almost any other movie for reasons that make no sense.
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It’s raining in LA and I recorded 20 seconds...
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“I always knew that Sugar was Cheryl, and that the anonymity was just a temporary...”
– Dear Sugar is Out!
Six months ago, I posted part of Cheryl Strayed’s incredible essay “The Love of My Life, which reads as though Strayed is coaxing you down into the frigid river beside her. Filling your pockets with stones as she talks, until you are drowned too, vicariously...
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“you politely ask me not to die and i promise not to
right from the...”
– K.Squared:
Superbly Situated by Robert Hershon
This is unbelievably wonderful. In the sort of way that makes me want to cry halfway through a laugh.
Just sublime.
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“I want to take it all with me. Devise a way to pack a fourteen foot trailer with...”
– HollyGoNightly
“This life is too short for Easy.”
You know what I love? People who write honestly about big things and allow them to be all of what they are. People who buck the pressure to categorize and simplify. People who let things be NOT all prideful and thrilling and good news...
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“I feel sorry to say I have no favorite place in Beijing. I have no intention of...”
– Monsterbeard
From Chinese activist Ai Weiwei’s heartbreaking piece in Newsweek.
I saved this quote a while back and keep thinking about it over and over. For all the frivolousness of my favorite sorts of writing, this clean bleakness is what sticks with me.
“The world I live in is loud and blurring and toilets plug and I get speeding...”
– Ann Voskamp, — “one thousand gifts” (via headingtowardsimplicity)
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“I accused him of putting me down like a coffee mug on his way to wherever he...”
– (via theretohearit)
This girl has a big place in my heart.
Watchrottinghaus:
if you missed it earlier, today MTV premiered the trailer for APART. Please watch it. A lot of people worked really hard, gave a lot of notes, and worked really hard again to make it what it is. It’s a complicated, layered, nuanced, mysterious film that was very, very tough to fit into 2 minutes and 11 seconds without giving up the ghost entirely. BLT did it though, and they did...
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