when you grow up on a farm in georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule

crazy radio shows

i used to build nests too

[image: giant nest by Benjamin Verdonck; rotterdam, netherlands]
[currently listening to: the gandharvas - the first day of spring]

It's missing more bird shit smears but other than that, I like it!

Alicante

Une orange sur la table
Ta robe sur le tapis
Et toi dans mon lit
Doux présent du présent
Fraîcheur de la nuit
Chaleur de ma vie

-- Jacques Prevert

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ooooh so warm and gooey inside

no dream is ever just a dream

[images: claudia rogge]
[currently listening to: yoav - club thing]

bitter melon

"She cried, "No choice! No choice!" She doesn't know. If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever.
I know this, because I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness."
-- Amy Tan, "The Joy Luck Club"

And now I question so many things when I look at the reflection of my naked body in the mirror. I cover my breasts horrified that it will never see the sun again. For the first time, I feel ashamed of this body. Any attempt at covering it up is fruitless. My thoughts of double happiness starts to wander into the realm of double standard but I catch my tongue. It is better 'to eat my own bitterness' than to say anything at all.

after awhile, even bitter melon starts to taste sweet.

atop the granite dome of the stawamus

[image: katia]

i will one day return on this pilgrimage
and re-kindle the fuel
to feed what could be,
a roaring flame.
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meditate in the alpenglow
of this spiritual bliss -
resonating the earth's deep calm.