"I did it for the lulz."
Frank Sinatra (via magnificentruin)
homeward bound, yes I am.
I feel that feeling you get when you stand at the edge of a cliff facing water for just a second too long. Rethink. Halt. When you walk up to the cliff ready to jump and then something happened and you stop and look over and there’s something painful in it - a physical inability to jump, jump,jump. I feel like I stopped on the cliff. Friends and family are calling bellow “chicken” “coward” “just jump!”But I can’t. It’s not that far, I’m not empirically afraid. Physically I can’t. I can’t jump. What is it? Come on! That second, you looked and you knew
all at once
all the bad things that could happen
that won’t happen
but could.
So you didn’t jump. And you never will.
"Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms — his fun, for it was half made up, as he knew very well; invented, this escapade with the girl; made up, as one makes up the better part of life, he thought — making oneself up; making her up; creating an exquisite amusement, and something more. But odd it was, and quite true; all this one could never share — it smashed to atoms."
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
(via firlane)
I’m broken.
I literally CANNOT do homework.
Asa - Bami dele- “follow me home” in Yoruba! (and English)
Amsterdam, Summer 2011
Florence, Summer 2011
While we’re on the subject, could we change the subject now?
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
"Thales was so intent on watching the stars that he neglected a very practical thing and fell into a well. The milkmaid laughed, as she couldn’t see how anyone could miss something so obvious. But in her busy practical life the milkmaid had perhaps missed something too: had it ever occurred to her to wonder what the stars were made of?"
First Dissertation, Monsignor Terry J. Tekippe’s summary of an analogy used by Bernard Longergan in his essay Common Sense.
