“When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.” ― Aleksandar Hemon, …
the silent treatment
“When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” ― Rumi — maybe maybe, you don’t love me anymore maybe you can’t contain all of me tears and …
lunch break
“I like to prowl ordinary places and taste the people- from a distance.” ― Charles Bukowski — “you need to get the booger sucker”, one dad says to another dad to be he smiles …
a vacation from life
“To be, or not to be: that is the question” – William Shakespeare, Hamlet — i wonder if one can take a break from being alive a vacation from existence a mere moment to not …
smell of summer rain
“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — the steamy air worms through narrow pine needles perching one drop at …
loneliness
“If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre — do i feel lonely? with my mother oceans away my father mountains of continents away and my brother in …
an evening swing
“It is the evening that questions thus from within me.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra — spring evening the sun sits low almost kissing the horizon its blinding glow leaks into the …
once, on an early morning…
“The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.” ― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin — I woke up before 6 am only once, and wrote …
comfortable pain
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary — why is emotional …
Notre Dame
“With each passing [and passage], there is a further wearing away of the layers or coverings that obscure our essential selves. And so, as we say “goodbye” again and again, we feel thinner, narrower, more …