June 2011
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Passing Remark
goodpoetry:
In scenery I like flat country. In life I don’t like much to happen. In personalities I like mild colorless people. And in colors I prefer gray and brown. My wife, a vivid girl from the mountains, says, “Then why did you choose me?” Mildly I lower my brown eyes— there are so many things admirable people do not understand.
William Stafford
May 2011
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My friend in high school wrote this great farewell...
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At one point, this was my absolute favorite song....
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I walked across an empty land I knew the pathway...
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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
– Aldous Huxley
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“It’s the one about the guy.
Who fell of the skyscraper.
on his way down...”
– La Haine
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“Curiouser
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Sometimes, I want to write. I open up my tumblr...
But I’ll find that I have nothing to say. Or more accurately, nothing I can say though there is a lot to be said.
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Live in my house. I’ll be your shelter Just...
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Swallowed by the Sea by Coldplay
The streets...
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My dad emailed me:
자랑스럽다. You are worth bragging about.
Love,
Dad.
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Finally got my hands on a copy of Extremely Loud...
And today, this is a bit of what I read while reading on the way to work (which, by the way, I found out is extremely dangerous due to the tendency to walk into things you don’t notice are there…). And for anyone doesn’t know, I think letters are the sweetest things, tangible forms of expression (I put a lot of weight on words).
A little girl asked her father for a letter. She...
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You got a fast car Is it fast enough so we can...
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“It’s easy to be emotional. You can always make a scene… Highs and...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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“So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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Gravity
has got a bad rep. Kids wish they can fly. Women wish they weighed less. Adults want flying cars. There are songs about gravity, defying gravity, being pulled, falling, and rising. In short, it seems that gravity isn’t too loved.
And it makes sense to feel that way. Falling, whether it’s falling in love or falling on pavement, brings scrapes, aches, and cuts. And rising, on the other...
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“She wants to know if I love her, that’s all anyone wants from anyone else,...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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“I spent my life learning to feel less.
Every day I felt less.
Is that growing...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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Movies are...
“fragmented pieces that give an illusion of a continuous flow of life, information, and ideas.”
It’s easy to fall into the life of characters because we are watching the forward, sequential life of a character. Yet, these scenes and shots are parts that were filmed out of order. With wardrobe and makeup, movies create and preserve a new reality. We can watch a movie over and...
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Phrases and ideas I am in love with right now:
1) The ghost of Grace Kelly (What a compliment! Via Kurt)
2) Two old souls who encountered each other for the first time
3) A crescendo of violence (From Amanda Knox)
4) Soak up the sun (I am imagining a sort of lazy day, kind of walking around PB to thrift shop, sunsets, flip-flops warming in the sun, iced tea)
5) Under the TV lights, you feel asleep again. You don’t know I’m...
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“What great gravity is this that drew my soul toward yours? What great force,...”
– Donald Miller, Blue like Jazz
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Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don’t make sense
Refrigerator
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I don’t have time to be in love,
Kissing...
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B: I'm going to miss you like you can't even imagine.
H: Of course I can. I'm going to miss you the same.
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“And the church can be anywhere you want it to be - In a field, on a mountain,...”
– Miranda Bailey
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The more I learn
about language, friendships, relationships, people, etc., the less carelessly I use the word love. I love you, I love this, I love that. Over time, such a powerful word has been degraded down to common use. Often times, “love” is substituted for “strongly like” or “really enjoy” but is rarely properly used. The Eskimo language has 32 words for love and yet,...
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“We must learn to be vulnerable enough to allow our world to turn upside down in...”
– Lisa D. Delpit, The Silenced Dialogue
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“I hadn’t realized how much I’d been needing to meet someone I might be able to...”
– Elizabeth Berg, Talk Before Sleep
“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way that a forest fire was...”
– Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, Good Omens
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Things that need to happen:
Flying cars. A decade and a year into the millennium. Where my flying cars at?
Textbooks need a ctrl+F button.
Emails need a Take Back button.
Gmail needs an email thread merger.
Life needs a ctrl+z or rewind function.
Inexpensive (maybe not universal), quality health care.
Education system (especially UCs) need to be fixed.
After recognizing tests are not the best measure of academic...
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100 Most Beautiful Words In English
1 adroit Dexterous, agile. 2 adumbrate To very gently suggest. 3 aestivate To summer, to spend the summer. 4 ailurophile A cat-lover. 5 beatific Befitting an angel or saint. 6 beleaguer To exhaust with attacks. 7 blandiloquent Beautiful and flattering. 8 caliginous Dark and misty. 9 champagne An effervescent wine. 10 chatoyant Like a cat’s eye. 11 chiaroscuro The arrangement of dark and...
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My friend told me
one of the most accurate and sad things I’ve heard in a while. She described a rocket to me (and apologies to engineer majors and engineers; we are both non-engineer majors so this is probably vague and maybe inaccurate): a rocket needs certain parts to launch. But once in the air, the rocket has to shed these parts but it’s not to say these parts were a waste. They were essential to...
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“Don’t you want to give me a chance to miss you?”
– David, Eat Pray Love 