konfessions of a ( )

Big Questions

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:35:02 +0800

How do we fall in love?
Answered by Jeanette Winterson:

You don’t fall in love like you fall in a hole. You fall like falling through space. It’s like you jump off your own private planet to visit someone else’s planet. And when you get there it all looks different: the flowers, the animals, the colors people wear. It is a big surprise falling in love because you thought you had everything just right in your own planet, and that was true, in a way, but then somebody signalled to you across space and the only way you could visit was to take a giant jump. Away you go, falling into someone else’s orbit and after a while you might decide to pull your two planets together and call it home. And you can bring your dog. Or your cat. Your goldfish, hamster, collection of stones, all your odd socks. (The ones you lost, including the holes, are on the new planet you found.)

And you can bring your friends to visit. And read your favorite stories to each other. And the falling was really the big jump that you had to make to be with someone you don’t want to be without. That’s it.

PS You have to be brave.

From the book “Big Questions from Little People and Simple Answers from Great Minds” by Gemma Elwin Harris

i hate perfume by christopher brosius

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:07:26 +0800

i hate perfume by christopher brosius

intellect badge

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:43:08 +0800

intellect badge:

i really want a library in my future home. not just any library. a statement library. ladders are a must.

someday

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:34:49 +0800

someday

I want a Tuesday kind of love.

Thu, 31 May 2012 17:10:00 +0800

I want a Tuesday kind of love. :

I want a Tuesday kind of love. The sort of thing that involves little dreaming and scheming; the sort of thing that comes paired with too-strong coffee and too-loud songbirds and the drone of the news at 6 a.m. or any time before the sky finds its identity, really. A Tuesday kind of love that isn’t indulgent, one that doesn’t stop the earth from spinning but maybe keeps us grounded in spite of all that uncontrollable movement.

I want to split the bill and pay the bills and not get lost in some unsustainable delusion where the rest of our lives become inconsequential. I want us to be human, I want to argue, I want to take too long in the shower. I want to hear about the horrific lines at the DMV, about a boss who doesn’t get it, about plans to pick up the laundry after work. I want stories of strangers on the bus, of a child who looked lost but turned out not to be, of chance encounters with high school classmates because these seemingly colorless instances are meaningful when filtered through the eyes of someone I care about. A Tuesday kind of love, breathing relevance into otherwise monotonous moments.

A Tuesday kind of love is this: commuting to work knowing that someone cares about what you’re going to have for lunch; understanding that you do not have to be your dynamic, charming, weekend self this time; this time you can butcher sentences and make bad jokes and trip over thin air and it won’t change anything. A Tuesday kind of love is when weekends and weekdays are one and the same, expanses of time where unpredictable, irreplaceable closeness exists, swells, bursts. Tuesday is directionless conversation about things that happened five hours or five years ago; it’s knowing where he keeps his receipts and when he has a doctor appointment; it’s ordering Chinese food or taking his parents out for dinner because they’re in town or forgetting to eat because you’re full of each other’s words and there’s just no room for anything else.

I don’t want to dream through our lives together, don’t want to sleep in, don’t want to put on my sunglasses and pretend that life’s a vacation. The fantasy is that I want to exist in reality; the fantasy is to be there for someone on a Sunday morning but also on a Tuesday night, when the haze and laze of the weekend has worn thin and seems far away as ever. I want a Tuesday kind of love.

GSD

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:19:23 +0800

someone has brought to my attention the fact that i am seven and a half months away from turning quarter century. well that’s a rude awakening. i thought i’d be much farther along than where i am right now. time to Get Shit Done.

did i need a #hashtag for that?

ive always wanted this type of flooring. and windows. i like the...

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:13:50 +0800

ive always wanted this type of flooring. and windows. i like the floor to ceiling windows. it helps that the weather is nice too.

Photo

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:11:29 +0800

Photo

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:08:18 +0800

remind me to get a fluorescent-colored door one day. how could...

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:01:24 +0800

remind me to get a fluorescent-colored door one day. how could you not be excited for what’s on the other side?

"let go and let be."

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:48:15 +0800

“let go and let be.”

Photo

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:56:20 +0800

i cant begin to explain how much i like this outfit.

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:55:38 +0800

i cant begin to explain how much i like this outfit.

fashiongonerogue: (via Nicola Roberts by Catherine Servel for...

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:43:37 +0800

fashiongonerogue:

(via Nicola Roberts by Catherine Servel for Ponystep #2)

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/160/tech-wars-2012-amazon-apple-google-facebook

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:45:07 +0800

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/160/tech-wars-2012-amazon-apple-google-facebook:

and to completely refute my previous post: article worth reading if you have the time to read it.

a back-to-the-basics reminder

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:40:03 +0800

a back-to-the-basics reminder

P2

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:34:33 +0800

On the first page of our story
the future seemed so bright
then this thing turned out so evil
I don’t know why I’m still surprised
even angels have their wicked schemes
and you take that to new extremes
but you’ll always be my hero
even though you’ve lost your mind

powerful stuff.

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:57:33 +0800

powerful stuff.

i can imagine the jabbawockeez making something sick out of this...

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:23:00 +0800

i can imagine the jabbawockeez making something sick out of this song.

nice way to wake up in the morning

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:13:51 +0800

nice way to wake up in the morning