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    plays: 5

    sprawl ii - arcade fire

    add it to the list below.

     


  2. things i am loving right now:

    - all of my classes. YAY
    - the farmers market
    - femsex
    - swing dancing!
    - barbara kingsolver’s “animal, vegetable, miracle”
    - my friend dana’s (still warm!) strawberry-thyme jam
    - listening to krista practice music from “amélie” on the piano
    - tea, all day/erry day 
    - mix CDs
    - the prospect of reading french children’s books with allie
    - my new ADORABLE ballet slippers. they’re little and pink!
    - love in the mail 
    - newly regained leg muscles
    - quiet nights
    - walking fifty blocks in one evening, and not even realizing it. i love that.

     

  3. i love my friends. (Taken with instagram)

     


  4. i have never

    told anyone these things.

     


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    a sunday kind of love – etta james

    rip, etta, a few days late.

     


  6. today was completely wonderful

     

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  8. but of course some things are neither omnipotent nor nonsentient but highly vulnerable and simultaneously highly sentient – or, more accurately, since there are no degrees of sentience, unnegotiably alive.
    — 

    elaine scarry, “on beauty and being just”

    (unnegotiably alive!) 

     


  9. and go to pieces on the stones at the bottom of my mind

     


  10. plums.
    — archilochus, “89”