life

risk your heart

In life, poem of the day on 26 January 2012 tagged louise erdrich, risk your heart with no comments

life will break you. nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. you have to love. you have to feel. it is the reason you are here on earth. you are here to risk your heart. you are here to be swallowed up. [...]

in blackwater woods

In life, poem of the day on 25 January 2012 tagged blackwater woods, mary oliver with 1 comment

Every year everything I have ever learned in my lifetime leads back to this: the fires and the black river of loss whose other side is salvation, whose meaning none of us will ever know. To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold [...]

2 0 1 2

In life, quotes on 1 January 2012 tagged 2012, louis l'amour with no comments

there will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning. (louis l’amour)

thirty one | year four

In images, iphone, life, nablopomo, photography on 31 December 2011 tagged cheers, december, nablopomo, thirty one with no comments

words of another

In life, quotes on 31 December 2011 tagged f scott fitzgerald, goodbye 2011 - hello 2012 with no comments

as this year draws to a close, and the door to a new year opens, remember these words: it’s never too late or too early to be whoever you want to be. you can change or stay the same. you can make the best or the worst of it.  i hope you make the best [...]