February 2012
21 posts
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“I’ve got death inside me. It’s just a question of whether or not I can outlive...”
– Don DeLillo, White Noise (via libraryland)
Lovely Advice →
pinkelephantintheroom: Lovely Advice
Health: 1. Drink plenty of water. 2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar. 3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants. 4. Live with the 3 E’s - Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy 5. Play more games. 6. Read more books than you did in 2009. 7. Sit in silence for at least 10...
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“Read, read, read. Write, write, write. Draw, draw, draw. Shoot, shoot, shoot....”
– Me on Twitter
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Walking in Lapeyrouse
“Lapeyrouse has an air of genteel decay about it. It is tropical Gothic – largely overgrown, rusty and beautiful. We don’t believe in lush, manicured lawns and tidy graves here. Our cemeteries are things of storybooks and magic, of spirits walking in the night, midnight lovers’ trysts and Lord KitchenerCalypsos. Even on All Souls’ when families come to clean their graves, when flowers are...
“The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may...”
– W.H. Auden (via misswallflower)
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Garma – Stories My Mother Told Me
My mother speaks of my great-grandmother as if she knew her, even though she died many years before my mother’s birth. “Garma was something else, yes,” she said to me with a smile. Garma was what they all called her, a child’s mispronunciation of the word Grandma before they were old enough to properly frame the word. For the rest of her life this is what she was called. She is called Garma still...
