Leslie Jamison - The Empathy Exams
Baseball season is in a couple days! Reblog your excitement!
Love this!
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
Burdens
I like to think of life's struggles as if they were ankle weights. They alter your stride, they're uncomfortable, and they seem like an unwieldy burden, but when they're removed you can move through your days unshackled, with the light steps of experience propelling you forward.
Vladimir Nabokov
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven - Sherman Alexie
I'm having "vision" problems, and I needed this today.
Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated
Two 12 page papers and one book and I'm done! The semester and my undergrad status will be no more!
Wait, You're Serious?
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because sometimes the only thing that makes any sense at all is to collect your thoughts in the smallest of boxes that can be tucked away at the very center of your chest
She's good at what she does.
If sense is lost tonight, then at least hold fast to hope. Safely conceal what's yours until the right person comes to find it.
Sherry Turkle
Like Water
Flowing words of blue and green.
Crystal waves of phrases, like glass.
Opaque rivers of metaphor, coursing.
Wade out into the stream,
Probe with bare feet for
Stability, for meaning. Grasp for
Balance with numb toes.
Fight for leverage.
A drip from my pen
Down the back of your neck.
Sense its touch.
Feel its tickle.
I want words that soak.
Writing oceans and emerald waves,
Soaring through the sparkling ideas
Of those that came before.
The Winds of Time propel the
Ship towards words meant
Just for you. Words that wash
Away the stain of years, and
Deliver you to shore.
I'll ink the sky with tears,
With scattered showers,
Rolling thunderstorms, sprinkles
Of life pouring into your soul.
Drowning screams of doubt,
Rinsing hidden shame.
No parching thirst, but poetry.
When urged by Faith
To take that step,
I'll write the sea you walk on.