February 2010
36 posts
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation; Because your...”
January 2010
45 posts
“The European, at sea in a small vessel, tends to envisage his situation as one...”
People always forget their mortality. If you remember one thing in your life, if one thing in your life motivates you, if one thing in your life reminds you every day of how great it is to feel, let it be your mortality. You’re not here forever, never forget that.
The Helio Sequence - Satellite (Elliott Smith...
Problems
My problems are almost always internal. This is probably the reason why I’m so adept at dealing with other people’s lives. Its something that I’ve always been good at. Being the voice of reason, being the silent listener, ready for everyone else to spill their lives onto my lap. I don’t not like it. Actually, I enjoy it. There is something about being able to help someone...
Radiohead - There There
Radiohead always has a...
“if you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner,...”
“Let me ask you this and I’m so serious: Do you really think I care if you...”
– Keisha Battle
“To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it”
– G.K. Chesterton
M. Ward - For Beginners
Sometimes it feels like my house is crumbling around me. Everything seems to be breaking off slightly, enough to still work, but not enough to be the same. Last night I had a very vivid dream that I ran out my bedroom door, down the hallway and leaped over the balcony overlooking the living room. I woke up before I would’ve landed face first on the ground. I’m happy to be alive. School...
Internship Day 1; 9am-1pm
I don’t know what I was thinking signing up for this. Interning in the psychiatric ward of a hospital scares me. But this is what I do. I do things that scare me, I do things that I think I can’t, just to prove myself and others wrong. Somehow this need to show myself what I’m capable of has gotten me into many experiences I never thought possible.
The woman I’m shadowing...
M. Ward - Helicopter
“I remember looking into your tiny face when you were born and thinking...”
– Grammy
“And what can life be worth if life’s first rehearsal is life itself. For...”
– Zee Avi
On Looking Up, On Growing Up
Tonight a strange and gut wrenching feeling came across me while I was out with some friends. I went to a bar with people who are a few years older than me, have graduated, and (presumably) have moved on with their lives. It struck when I realized how different I am from most of these older people. Although, that alone didn’t make me writhe with regret.
What I began to understand was: I...
Elliott Smith - I Better Be Quiet Now
“The further we went the more we felt the world change, or maybe it was us.”
– The Motorcycle Diaries
The New Year
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about this past year. All I can really say is that I’ve been blessed beyond belief. This year was critical, crucial. It was so necessary in the development of my life and without it, I know things would’ve unfolded so differently. This year was all about me. My confidence has skyrocketed and my desire to do and see more has been fueled with a bit...
