January 2012
6 posts
“Well, I mean, to break it down, the surgery I want to have, I’d like to have the...”
– Chaz Bono: I’m Saving to Buy a Penis - Rolling Stone (via brooklynmutt)
Chaz Bono kinda gets it. But then doesn’t all at the same time. I really wish he would not be the poster child for the trans community.
Mohandas Gandhi: Dear Customer who stuck up for... →
sweetupndown:
you thought I didn’t really notice. But I did. I wanted to high-five you.
Yesterday I had a pair of brothers in my store. One was maybe between 15-17. He was a wrestler at the local high school. Kind of tall, stocky and handsome. He had a younger brother, who was maybe about…
Healy in Africa: My Cameroonian Adventure: My last... →
healyinafrica:
As I sit waiting to board the plane to Addis Ababa, I still can’t really believe that I am getting on a plane to A.F.R.I.C.A. Not sure when reality will set in but in the meantime, I’ve been able to do some thinking about what I want to get out of this trip/my game plan for the next ten weeks. (In…
My sister is in Cameroon for 10 weeks doing research. All my research can...
Traumatic Experiences May Make You Tough (APS) →
psychotherapy:
via The Association for Psychological Science:
“Your parents were right: Hard experiences may indeed make you tough. Psychological scientists have found that, while going through many experiences like assault, hurricanes, and bereavement can be psychologically damaging, small amounts of trauma may help people develop resilience.
“Of course, everybody’s heard the aphorism,...
December 2011
4 posts
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
5 posts
LGBT Spirit Day
From 10-20-2010:
Today has been an extremely emotional day for me. As I’m sure it has for many people. I have spent periods of the day in tears. Tears for the kids who didn’t make it to find out that it got better. Tears for the kid I was in high school, who wanted nothing more than to die. Tears for the kids who sit alone at the lunch table each day. Tears for the kids who are still getting...
Gamblers All -Charles Bukowski
Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think,
I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside remembering all the times you’ve felt that way, and you walk to the bathroom, do your toilet, see that face in the mirror, oh my oh my oh my, but you comb your hair anyway, get into your street clothes, feed the cats, fetch the newspaper of horror, place it on the coffee table, kiss your...
August 2011
4 posts
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July 2011
22 posts
“‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that...”
– LOUIS C.K., to his kids, on Louie (via inothernews)
“It’s a really pathetic state of affairs for our politics when you have...”
– Jonathan Alter (via inothernews)
Watchfuckkyeahchicago:
A collection of Chicago fireworks shows, courtesy of Vimeo artist Chris Pritchard. (via buzzfeed)
June 2011
23 posts
