August 2012
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Most common reactions these days: nausea, terror
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“Nobody can save you but yourself — and you’re worth saving. It’s a war not...”
– Charles Bukowski
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There were a lot of people I considered reaching out to (texting) last night while I waited to hear from you, especially after that unfortunate encounter with the rude waiter that shouldn’t have made me cry in the bathroom, but did make me cry in the bathroom, because, apparently, being young and un-wealthy and an unattended lady is a crime. Eventually, I took myself home. I was thinking about...
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A Needy Love
Something about the era of men whose loves were the first female professionals. As women, they may have been relegated to teachers or nurses or secretaries, but they were out of the home and working. Something about the men that loved and supported and respected these women. Something about the men that found themselves needing these women for everything. Something about the way these men...
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“So you can force it, and you should force it. All the time. Force it open. Push....”
– Nicholson Baker
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There is too much pain and hurt in the world and I don’t handle it well. In the past year I’ve become as absurdly sensitive as my crying during every Olympic medal ceremony mother (if tears equal sensitivity) and I just want to crawl into a deep unending bed and tuck the sheet over my head. Lately, I’ve had the real sense that my tears don’t do anything for the world and do little for me. I won’t...
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More scared than most people.
I am young and it is not worth being this afraid of. You really do have to live and learn and living requires fuck ups and the best thing to learn is to not make yourself feel so damn guilty for fucking up.
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There is a lot of aching in me. There’s a lot aching in me. A lot aches in me.
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I do not so much think that topless women are wrong or unnecessary in their boldness, just that there are more interesting and powerful ways to be.
