January 2012
36 posts
December 2011
26 posts
“And the dangerous thing about excuses is that if we recite them enough times, we...”
– Robin Sharma (via tylerknott)
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via boxofoctaves)
Lost & Found
tylerknott:
I found myself the moment I found you and I am petrified that if you stop seeing something beautiful in me then I’ll stop seeing it too. -Tyler Knott Gregson-
Watchadambozarth:
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Last night, Taylor mentioned this chart from the webcomic XKCD that illustrates how most of the Christmas music we listen to on the radio is from the Baby Boomer’s childhood. Similarly, A Charlie Brown Christmas was released in 1965 (when my parents were 10 and 6 years old) became the longest running special of all time.
Watching it now, you can hear the...
Faith in Faith
No matter how much you believe in something, if you talk about having faith in it you will sound foolish. It doesn’t matter if it’s a deity, a job prospect, or the weather patterns of the southern coast. As someone who is rebuilding my own faith, I am hyper aware of how pretentious it sounds to people who do not believe when I talk about my faith in God.
The thing about faith, though,...
“What would be the point of living if we didn’t let life change us?”
– Downton Abbey
Braided
I never really had much experience with them, other than the small, unnoticeable one on my forehead from a bad case of chicken pox in 1989, but after my surgery I have five, very distinct scars. My only real experience seeing how people react to someone having a scar is my the large scar on my brother’s right (maybe left?) shoulder from running and crashing into a glass lamp as a...
Tyler Knott: I Believe →
tylerknott:
There are certain and altogether unalienable threads that tie me together and are wound so tightly around each other that they create the framework for these tired bones. The skeleton that will one day be covered with the skin of my experiences and the scars of longing and some ache that stains it…
Tyler’s work is fantastic, but for those who won’t read it because...
“The sun,—the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and...”
– Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (via bookmania)
trees
Do trees grow first with arrogance, then with reluctance, then with wisdom like us? Some have grow cragged with age like the people I love the most. Straight and strong stand some, while others seem to gradually lean as if the universe decided there was a better place for them to be. But my favorites are the ones that seem to twist and wrap themselves around other trees for support, and no...