November 2008
20 posts
tales as tall as cliffs
i made a new tumblr. this one is strictly things i write and pictures i take and things that inspire me so deeply that it needs to be with those other things.
i love that tumblr is a place of so many reblogs, of sharing other people’s work and images and stories. it keeps me away from the self-centered part of the internet, my facebook and email and yadayada. now i...
“that’s the way they did it in the old country. two people battle the...”
– rob sheffield, love is a mixed tape.
i can’t believe i said i would go back to monmouth to see melissa this weekend. really? was i on meth? maybe i’m being a big baby, but there are nights i have nightmares about being forced to move back there. nightmares. it’s been since may. it snowed yesterday. it’s been two seasons ago!
i know i’ll survive it, and it’ll be whatever. there’ll be some...
“lighting a candle somewhere challenges darkness everywhere.
i don’t...”
– Dr. Ayers at monmouth college, fall of 2007.
lindsey’s quotes from his convocation in 2005 made me want to look up my notes from last fall. i remember defending him then from the people who thought it was bad to just listen to him talk; that he would tell us to go blow everything up, and you...
“We are all more than any superficial statement made about us. We are all works...”
– Dr. William Ayers (aka BILL AYERS AHHH RUN AWAY TERRORIST MCCAIN 08 OBAMA’S A MUSLIN), in a talk he gave at my alma mater in 2005. I went to this convocation as part of my gig assistant-teaching Willhardt’s freshman liberal arts class, and I remember loving it.
I just found my notes today, in an...
