Hold the pulse.

everythingyousaywilldestroyyou:

His best novel, I think.

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, comformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. 

-Christopher McCandless

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I went to my Southern Grandma’s house tonight, Betty A, and she gave me these medical books. Betty  (80 years-old) has not worked at my work in three years now but we keep in touch. After a fall out with my family in those days, she was the person I went to for advice. She is not biological to me but she might as well be.

Recently, her partner died. They were together for 46+ years. Betty even left her husband for this woman, and I love to sit at her house and hear the stories about how she went against the odds. Betty worked for the government in Washington D.C.  back in the day, so it was even more extreme to go against the heterosexual agenda.

Nowadays, Betty just sits on her rocking swing outside and mourns the loss of her only true love and she reminds me every day to pull the closest people to me closer. She does not move on. Is there ever really moving on from the one person that made you the most sane? Isn’t that what life is about?

Thank you, Grandma Betty A.

le-royaume-du-prep:

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at the typewriter and bleed.”- Ernest Hemingway.

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"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."

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x0leeanne:

Day twenty-three/ 365

I like to buy vintage books, and I like them even more when I find writing inside.

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I’m leaving to go to Colorado tomorrow

and I need book suggestions for my Kindle, please?

teachingliteracy:

lost—in—memories:

Old Book shop, Madrid by j.labrado on Flickr.

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annarack:

Book Diorama made for Jessica Gowling on Flickr.

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Today I purchased this book for $1 at our annual work book fair. It is an advanced copy that isn’t set to be released until January 1st, 2012.

Needless to say this is a delightful book. The book is love letters of Fridtjof Nansen, a great explorer and Nobel Peace Prize winner from Norway, to Brenda Ueland, a journalist from New York. He was 30 years her senior. They met and had a year long correspondence until his death.

It is quite funny that these letters would be considered semi-pornographic only half a century ago.

“O Brenda, you cannot possibly understand what your letter means to me… there is not a corner of my heart or soul which I do not wish you to look into… I have the feeling that I could talk to you about everything, as I never had before, and you would always understand.”