Nonsense

Each time I read your name My mind whispersI love you. But I...

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:09:50 -0400

Each time I read your name
My mind whispers
I love you.
But I don’t dare udder those words
Into an audible existence.
Because my own silence,
That I can live with.

It’s yours that I couldn’t bear.

Maybe Geography Isn’t the Issue If emptiness could...

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:53:42 -0400

Maybe Geography Isn’t the Issue

If emptiness could collapse,
Would this distance between us
Seem any less intolerable?

Maybe geography isn’t the issue, here.
But a cheap excuse to explain
Why you are always unavailable
To satisfy the closeness I crave from you.

Spineless

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:15:39 -0500

I mold myself
Into all the shapes
That you want me to be.

Pervigilo

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:04:08 -0500

Is it your fear of losing
That makes you go further
What makes me wonder friend
Is how you get away with your lies
‘Cause maybe you have noticed
That I appreciate your company
And every time you have to go
I regret I didn’t let you know
I could love you

And when you hung up the phone
I realized I was alone
And I can’t help it
You’re just so beautiful
I can’t help it
You’re so beautiful

You may have seen the world dear
But you don’t know me
That’s why all of this
Seems so absurd
I lie awake at night
Picturing me and you
I wish I could make it
All clear you see
I could love you

And soon the fall is here
Turning us cold
And I can’t help it
You’re so beautiful
I can’t help it
You’re so beautiful

Oh the morning light
But the demons they come at night
I want to be your appetite
I want to be your good dreams,
your bad dreams
I can’t help it
You’re so beautiful

-first aid kit

Rain

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:20:08 -0500

Coffee,
Pink Floyd,
And stop motion films.

Yeah.

On Being Present

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:01:52 -0500

Being present means getting out of your head and actually experiencing the world around you. Most of us go through our day thinking about something else: what we have to do that day, what we’re going to eat for dinner, our plans for the weekend – pretty much anything besides what we are actually doing at that current moment. Although this type multitasking is often beneficial; I believe that it results in a shallow experience of life. Sometimes I’ll arrive home from a 30 minute drive to realize that I can’t remember the journey at all. I don’t want to wake up 10 years from now and have a similar revelation.

So what do you do? For me, focusing on a simple, minute detail of my environment helps train my brain to slow down and notice things. For example, sometimes in a crowded place I’ll close my eyes are just listen. I’ll try to pick apart every layer, every source of sound and focus on it for a moment – give it my full attention. Other times I will go somewhere quiet, like a park or wooded area. Being alone in nature has a calming, relaxing effect on the mind. The absence of evidence of the modern world helps you forget for a moment about stress, deadlines, or insecurities and in turn will turn your focus toward the beauty of the present moment.

"Bliss is what comes when you have let go of all the things that keep you from feeling blissful"

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:14:19 -0500

“Bliss is what comes when you have let go of all the things that keep you from feeling blissful”

Uneffected?

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:27:00 -0500

Damn.

You keep using all these big words like “together” and “relationship” while...

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:15:19 -0500

You keep using all these big words like “together” and “relationship” while all I can think about is the method for sabotaging things I’ll choose this time.

Pretending to care By pretending not to care.

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:36:55 -0500

Pretending to care
By pretending not to care.

Well Fuck Me.

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:40:04 -0500

I will destroy you.

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Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:18:50 -0500

"Give yourself a good, solid, clear and meaningful reason to do whatever you’re doing. Give yourself..."

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:42:38 -0500

“

Give yourself a good, solid, clear and meaningful reason to
do whatever you’re doing. Give yourself a real, authentic
dream.

Give yourself a dream that has meaning, and that compels you
forward. Keep yourself solidly connected to that dream.

Let your dream flow naturally and honestly from the vision
you have for how life can be. Make your dream so big and
exciting that you cannot fail to put the best of yourself
into it.

Give yourself a dream, and give it to all the world as well.
Choose a dream that enables you to lift others higher as you
lift yourself higher and do what you truly love.

Let go of the excuses, the complaints, the anger, envy and
frustration. Put the miraculous power of your thoughts,
words and actions into the good and positive things that
truly matter.

At this time of new beginnings, choose to live with more
substance and meaning than ever before. Give yourself a
dream, and give all of life the unique benefit of the very
best you can be.

”

- Ralph Marston (via liliezencoach)

Right now it’s still awkward for us to switch from serious to light. It’s beautiful.

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:51:55 -0500

Right now it’s still awkward for us to switch from serious to light.
It’s beautiful.

"He’s like a man with a candle looking for the sun."

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:30:42 -0500

“He’s like a man with a candle looking for the sun.””

- Rumi

Neuroscience Sheds New Light on Creativity - Rewiring the Creative Mind | Fast Company - StumbleUpon

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:20:21 -0500

Neuroscience Sheds New Light on Creativity - Rewiring the Creative Mind | Fast Company - StumbleUpon:

What you conjured illuminates how our brains work, why it can be so hard to come up with new ideas — and how you can rewire your mind to open up the holy grail of creativity. Recent advances in neuroscience, driven by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) that lets scientists watch brain activity as never before, have changed what we know about key attributes of creativity. These advances, for example, have swept away the idea that there is a pleasure center in the brain that somehow acts as an accelerator to the engine of human behavior. Rather, chemicals such as dopamine shuttle between neurons in ways that look remarkably like the calculations modern robots perform.

Creativity and imagination begin with perception. Neuroscientists have come to realize that how you perceive something isn’t simply a product of what your eyes and ears transmit to your brain. It’s a product of your brain itself. And iconoclasts, a class of people I define as those who do something that others say can’t be done — think Walt Disney, Steve Jobs, or Florence Nightingale — see things differently. Literally. Some iconoclasts are born that way, but we all can learn how to see things not for what they are, but for what they might be.

Perception and imagination are linked because the brain uses the same neural circuits for both functions. Imagination is like running perception in reverse. The reason it’s so difficult to imagine truly novel ideas has to do with how the brain interprets signals from your eyes. The images that strike your retina do not, by themselves, tell you with certainty what you are seeing. Visual perception is largely a result of statistical expectations, the brain’s way of explaining ambiguous visual signals in the most likely way. And the likelihood of these explanations is a direct result of past experience.

Entire books have been written about learning, but the important elements for creative thinkers can be boiled down to this: Experience modifies the connections between neurons so that they become more efficient at processing information. Neuroscientists have observed that while an entire network of neurons might process a stimulus initially, by about the sixth presentation, the heavy lifting is performed by only a subset of neurons. Because fewer neurons are being used, the network becomes more efficient in carrying out its function.

"Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines..."

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:27:59 -0500

“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.”

- Henry Miller (via ala-lani)

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Tue, 27 Dec 2011 02:03:40 -0500

I have a date with the devil tomorrow. Approximately 3 p.m.

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 02:03:15 -0500

I have a date with the devil tomorrow.
Approximately 3 p.m.

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Mon, 26 Dec 2011 03:29:17 -0500