December 2008
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All I Want For Christmas...
George Orwell’s unabashed & confrontational approach to writing, thinking and living
Sigh. The courage, motivation, work ethic, time, money, to acheive my myriad dreams.
Vintage Fur vests like the one Diana Ross wore in Mahogany. (the whole wardrobe is amazing down to the hair) I wish I had gotten one years ago when I first started obsessing over it and now EVERYBODY is rocking them....
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October 2008
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When I Typed In "Silence Is My Portion"
Piedad Bonnet
ORACIÓN
Para mis días pido, Señor de los naufragios, no agua para la sed, sino la sed, no sueños sino ganas de soñar. Para las noches, toda la oscuridad que sea necesaria para ahogar mi propia oscuridad.
PRAYER
For my days I ask, Lord of shipwrecks, not for water for my thirst, but thirst, not for dreams, but for the desire to dream. For the nights, all the darkness that will be...
September 2008
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August 2008
5 posts
My life seems to be an increasing revelation of the intimate face of universal...
July 2008
5 posts
I am one beautiful and powerful son of a bitch…Smart as a whip, respected,...
– Im reading Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Salt Eaters”. The book is hard to get into but once you do get in deep you realize that its about all the myriad ways that healing comes to us and the struggles that we must undertake in order to acheive it. I’m still learning…But...
My journeys to South Africa are akin to pilgrimages that begin with ambivalence,...
– Everyone has been asking me about my trip to South Africa and today I came across the words that I have been unable to find and articulate for myself. Any travel outside of your home country renders you simultaneously excited and crippled. Excited for the experience, and yet strangely crippled by...
May 2008
4 posts
ca’line’s prayer
i have got old
in a desert country
i am dry...
– Lucille Clifton, “ca’line’s prayer”
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April 2008
6 posts
Invoices, First Names, & Commissions
I don’t like callin and botherin people. “Hello this is Darnell calling from EastLine Asset Management…” It’s the job I never wanted. “Hello this is Darnell calling from EastLine Asset Management…” Sometimes calling a invoice is like trying to get with silly girls in high school. The kind of girl who would say she was goin with you and then switch once she fucked a basketball player. Those are...
I think that writing is a way of continuing to hope. When things
sometimes...
“Art should have some level of depth and mystery and ambiguity, so that...
–
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March 2008
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There’s always this search for the vernacular. There’s always this...
– ” Word Alchemy: Diane DiPrima on Art, Honesty and Selling Out”, by Joe Pachinko http://www.lipmagazine.org/
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