I’ll take a quiet life, a handshake…

Tired of always being the one to try. Need to listen to the wisdom of my quote of the week. Or perhaps have it tattooed on me.

so you bite on a towel, hope it won’t hurt too bad

Have you heard of the film Boy A?
British film about a boy you commits a murder as a child, and is institutionalized, and then released at the age of 24 and tries to make a new life for himself, amidst ghosts of his past. I highly recommend it. A real coming of age picture, and [...]

see those headlights coming toward us, that’s someone going back

A machine, when it tries the way it does makes it seem like it can love

The robots are winning, and I no longer have the strength to defeat them.
I wish I didn’t care, yet I wish they cared back.
On a lighter note, it is my goal in life to see these guys live.
Would you rather, hamburgers, donuts or pieces of meat stuck to your body if you had to choose?

raspberry

Do you ever feel that the problems in your life seem to get bigger but you never really feel grown-up?
I’m glad its Friday.
Song of the Minute: All In It – British Sea Power

providing needles for your balloons

technology is such a double edge sword. in someways i wish i never entered into this realm in the first place. life was simpler when it was just the sound of keys hitting the paper on my grandfathers old typewriter, my thoughts drifting into cups of tea. earl grey with a slice of lemon.
dante was [...]

and take care

I was walking home this evening huddling into my zip-up sweater as the sun went down. There was a couple a few paces ahead of me, walking slowly, holding hands. The wind was picking up and I was wishing I had brought a coat. The couple in front of me pulled over to the [...]

lacing fingers threw the notches in your spine

Exactly a year ago today I moved out of my apartment in Kingston.
I remember on my last night after my friends had left, sitting on the hardwood floor listening to music and crying just a wee bit. Okay, perhaps more than a wee bit.
That feels like a lifetime ago. So much has happened since, most [...]

reeling in fog. kneeling in fog.

bbc news. world. americas.
i remember last year when a similar incident happened, but i heard about it on television. and it looped. for hours. for days. i specifically remember being at my friend annie’s house, numb around the television, open textbooks sitting on our laps, suddenly deconstructing theories seemed irrelevant.
now, i have no television and [...]

haven’t been gone very long, but it feels like a lifetime

so, i’m a little homesick.
its honestly the first time that i’ve been here where i have felt truly, truly homesick. not homesick for a specific person or place, just generally, yet i think a large part of it has to do with what i was attempting not to ramble about in the previous entry.
as usual [...]