"I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."
— L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
(via booklover)
"I mean, has anybody been watching the debates lately? You’ve got a governor whose state is on fire denying climate change. It’s true. You’ve got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don’t have healthcare. And booing a service member in Iraq because they’re gay. That’s not reflective of who we are."
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-Barack Obama, on Sunday.
(Related: I rejoiced —rejoiced— when the DADT repeal was finally enacted last week. Now to kill DOMA and secure benefits for all military partners. Why is this so hard? Oh yeah, it’s because we live in a society where Rick Perry thinks he deserves to be president [and, frighteningly, other functioning adult humans actually do too].)
(Source: motherjones)
(Love / if you like and i like,for the reason that i / hate people and lean out of this window is love,love / and the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love and the reason / that i do not fall into this street is love.” —e.e. cummings, from “you being in love”)
- Love, of course, but also (in no particular order):
- Books and paper ephemera
- Trees and other vegetation
- Housecats, specifically those that live in my house
- Mixing paint, preparing a canvas
- Old things in new lives
- When one of my students “gets it”
- Handsome penmanship
- Not being as new as I used be
- Participating in history
- Interests that are truly inexhaustible
"Dress shields, armed guard at breastwork, a hard mail covering. Brazen privates, testing their mettle. Bolder soldiers make advances, breasting hills. Whose armor is brassier."
— Harryette Mullen, from Trimmings
that our tiny cat’s jaws unhinge like a snake’s, allowing her to carry, and ultimately consume, items many times her body weight. A roll of toilet paper, for example.
That is: I’m quite certain I lost a few and it was frustrating yet weirdly cute.