“something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.” -anais nin anais nin continues to be a saving grace for me. her profound wisdom somewhat like a bucket of ice water splashed onto my face. her words perfectly confronting and comforting….
j’aime montreal … très beaucoup.
i love montreal … with her french allure and jazz cafes, dimmed in red lights / smoke-filled footpaths and leonard cohen muses / her melbourne mimics and city pedals to beatniks vintage / to la lumiere du mile end … yes i love montreal. french infatuations, those day long affairs with saint denis, laurent and…
every moment is a memory.
on memory and personal relationships joshua foer suggests that “a meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present time.” i warrant this to be untrue for in some moments, the present is the only time two people have together. revel in your present company. for every moment offers a precious second…
old fashion charm is the way to get into this girl’s pants.
i must disclose that i’ve become addicted to the crass charm and unapologetic honesty of the thought catalog, an experimental digital magazine out of williamsburg, brooklyn that aspires to “shape culture by empowering writers to share their ideas and stories with the world.” that’s the kind of platform i want to shout my words from….
the good life.
by profession i am a development specialist. my job requires me to be on pulse with trends, ahead of the curve in popular philanthropy. i’m an avid notetaker. i pulled out my notes from 2011 and flipped to a page with the header “buzz words”. half way down the page i had recorded the following…
the tasmanian devil (in me).
i love unconventional get-to-know-you conversations. the kind where i ask you random questions like if you could be a muppet which one would you be? … trumpet or trombone? … which ninja turtle best reflects you or your personality? …. what was the last book you read? … if i gave you a one-way plane…
a self-portrait / an argument.
“i don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. i want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” (from the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde) july creative writing challenge day 18: a self-portrait. to read the picture of dorian gray is to lose yourself in perhaps the finest literary exploration…
a savant.
“our memories make us who we are. they are the seat of our values and source of our character … [memorizing is] about taking a stand against forgetfulness; and embracing primal capacities from which too many of us have become estranged … it’s about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human .” (joshua foer) july creative…
the formula for happiness.
“sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” (marilyn monroe) july creative writing challenge day 16: the formula for happiness. the pursuit of happiness. It seems like a perpetual chase. we seek it in every aspect of life. as if the stark emotion of it all defines us; qualifies us. but what…
i noticed you were in a hurry.
“here in the moment we share, trembling between the worlds we stare, out at starlight enshrined, veiled like diamonds in time.” (daniel cavanagh) creative writing challenge day 15: i noticed you were in a hurry. every so often my curiosity is piqued by the fascinating thing that is astronomy … the twilight beyond the horizon….
static confusion. 