September 2009
9 posts
“We are two feathers
off of the same lonely bird
floating together.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott) (via quote-book)
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who...”
– Henri Nouwen (via brokenmachine) (via quote-book)
“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the...”
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton (via suedwind) (via somerset) (via ryannjoy) (via quote-book)
“Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight is said to be the only truth”
– Herman Melville (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
poetry as tonic, #1
psychotherapy:
The Thing Is to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you...
poetry as tonic, #3
psychotherapy:
Wild Geese
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the...
“Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have...”
– Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (via psychotherapy)
天‧生‧地‧夢‧
posion
it seems everything i said hv posioned the relationship w/ ppl around me, i think i hv an passive aggression?
i jus want ppl to hear me out. but when i start to say something, i feel like no one like to hear it, and all i said seems pointless. ppl want to help me, but i feel like its not wt i wanted it jus make them feel more annoyed with me n fraustrated by me. may be its jus better for them n...