January 2012
22 posts
2011.
Thank you.
Your journey has molded you for the greater good and it was exactly what it needed to be.
Don’t think that you’ve lost time.
It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now.
And now is right on time.
December 2011
18 posts
the pilgrim's progress.
I wish I was kidding when I tell you that I’ve owned 7 wood picture frames for a long time. Seven total, in various shapes and sizes. They were bought from a Salvation Army in Philadelphia. Back when I lived in Philadelphia. Six years ago. They have moved with me through five apartments. Yes, I know. Five apartments in six years is gross.
Now I live in New York. I have silver zebra-striped...
Will Obama ever support marriage equality? →
salgentile:
There’s a good essay in the New Yorker by former Bill Clinton adviser Richard Socarides on the question of whether Obama will declare his support for marriage equality before the election:
The remarkable new reality for Obama in this election is that supporting marriage equality is smart politics. A majority of independents and young voters already favor equal marriage rights....
it all started this morning.
(to myself)
Wonder what that fuel truck is doing there. Wonder why that lady is staring at the fuel truck looking mad scared. Remember that Kaleidoscope where Melanie Hamlett(?) Hazlett(?) told a story about a fuel line exploding on fifth avenue and how she ran away from it and lost her bag? Hamslet? She was funny. See? Maybe dramatic people have it right because they’ll always survive when...
“The stage is my church and long form improvisational comedy is my religion and I...”
– Amy Poehler. (via healywu)
Led by the child who simply knew. →
via The Boston Globe.
Gender and identity are very complicated subjects that I am in no way qualified to speak on, so I won’t.
This article is interesting and moving.
a nice thing I read.
What has happened has happened for the best.
What is happening is happening for the best.
What will happen will happen for the best.
Do not brood over the past.
Do not worry about the future. The present is on.
What have you lost that you are weeping?
What have you brought that you have lost?
What have you made that has been destroyed?
You brought not anything.
What you have, you got from...
“Did your sister fax you guys her Christmas list?”
– My dad. It makes me oddly sad that he doesn’t understand email or the internet.
CBS News: NASA Finding Feeds Talk of a New Earth →
Other Earth.
Buzzfeed: The 45 Most Powerful Images of 2011 →
That was a lot of emotions in a row.
bad.
So my baby nephew goes to daycare at the same place where my sister and I went when were youngins. Yesterday, my sister went to pick him up: DAYCARE LADY: Mary, he has a bit of a temper. MARY: Oh, I know it. He wants what he wants. But I’ve never seen him throw a tantrum or anything … did that happen? DAYCARE LADY: No, no tantrum. But he’s very stubborn. Maybe that’s the best way...
2012: Vietnam, Cambodia or Thailand?
Advice, pointers, tips, warnings welcome.
Fittingly, as I wrote this, “Escapade” by Janet Jackson came up on my iPod. So there’s that.
Come on, baby.