time’s a goon

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There are so many ways to go wrong. All we’ve got are metaphors, and they’re never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing.

th blu nyt
th stRs u can’t c
th hum tht nevr gOs awy

The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back.

jennifer egan, a visit from the goon squad

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it’s been too long; what a long few weeks. everything has become so intense; there are simply not enough hours in the day to do it all.

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On the girl’s brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

little bee

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end of summer party tonight for work ya’ll

get ready

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we hosted quite the end-of-summer party on saturday night with masses of people kept pouring through our home into the backyard. a perfect way to end summer.

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The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

from The Start-Up of You

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The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?
Doesn’t that make life a story?
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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