January 2011
14 posts
bunny-warrior asked: I was just bookface stalking you, like a creeper, and I saw you talking about AmeriCorps! I'm applying there for fall! Have you applied, or are you planning to?
If all goes as planned I'll be working at Girl Scout camp this summer and for AmeriCorps in the fall! Yay for non profit organizations!
P.S. Your new haircut is amazingly cute <3
If all goes as planned I'll be working at Girl Scout camp this summer and for AmeriCorps in the fall! Yay for non profit organizations!
P.S. Your new haircut is amazingly cute <3
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To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the...
– Howard Zinn (via kateoplis)
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White person complaining about white people
When a white person asks “Why should I be punished for the actions of my ancestors?”
zuky:
I can only say with sympathy, you’re already being punished: Listen to yourself. You have inherited a racial anxiety and apparent cognitive dysfunction which distorts your perception of the world and experience of humanity, and which dehumanizes your own heart more than it can ever do to we...
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theaveragepoet asked: What were the highest and the lowest points in your life?
somethingtookish asked: Prepare for a lot of questions: Do you prefer handwriting or typing for your writing? Is there an advantage to you for either or both? Where is your favorite place to sit down and write?
tiredofblogging-deactivated2011 asked: I hear that that ask reblog doesn't work! Favorite season?
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absolutes are incomplete
I knew a woman once who showed me the truth about love. Through somber moans and sepia tones she told me about her greatest love affair. But before they were wed he went to war and never came home, and it ate away at her head. As she got older, it got easier, as her mind was gripped with amnesia and to this day the doctors say she cannot remember her own name. They called it Alzheimer’s but...
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six years later and it will never be over
The worst part about packing up all of your things wasn’t the memories. In fact, it was sweet finding the things you kept. The first tape of my cousin’s first band, back when he was in high school. Photos from years before even my parents were born. Christmas cards and birthday bests from the first I ever sent. The Black Beauty tape I would watch incessantly even though I cried every...