November 2011
12 posts
October 2011
4 posts
June 2011
1 post
March 2011
4 posts
An Email
Olga:
It is still your birthday in San Francisco! And by that virtue: HAPPY BIRTHDAY :D
Elaine:
HURRAY! I love birthdays! :D
Did I tell you that I’ve reached perfection?
Because I have. I have reached perfection.
Which is no small thing.
Olga:
Jesus! Can you share that little secret with me? Save me some time :D
Elaine:
It turns out that 28 is a perfect number.
A perfect number...
August 2010
1 post
February 2010
16 posts
The Darling Letters
Some keep them in shoeboxes away from the light, sore memories blinking out as the lid lifts, their own recklessness written all over them. My own… Private jokes, no longer comprehended, pull their punchlines, fall flat in the gaps between the endearments. What are you wearing? Don’t ever change. They start with Darling; end in recriminations, absence, sense of loss. Even now,...
“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to...”
– Joan Didion (via psychotherapy) (via somethingchanged) (via buyhercandy) (via unicornology)
House On A Cliff
Indoors the tang of a tiny oil lamp. Outdoors The winking signal on the waste of sea. Indoors the sound of the wind. Outdoors the wind. Indoors the locked heart and the lost key. Outdoors the chill, the void, the siren. Indoors The strong man pained to find his red blood cools, While the blind clock grows louder, faster. Outdoors The silent moon, the garrulous tides she rules. Indoors...
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the...”
– James Baldwin (via skyisland)
