Michael Cunningham, Specimen Days
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Thomas Jefferson described our inalienable rights as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I do no think the order of those important words was haphazard and casual. The liberty of any person to own a military assault weapon and high-capacity magazine and to keep them in their home is second to the right of my son to his life.
Dave Wheeler, whose son Benjamin died at Sandy Hook Elementary on Dec. 14, speaking at the Connecticut Task Force on Gun Violence
My weekend included such fun as having my husband’s wallet stolen and having my best friend of twenty years defriend me. The fact I made it out of bed at all this morning is an accomplishment in and of itself.
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I don’t know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
Edith Wharton
A Letter To The Guy Who Harassed Me Outside The Bar
“Ask your female friends, if you have any, if they’ve ever walked home late at night with a key pushed through their knuckles, just in case, if they’ve ever crossed the street to avoid a stranger, just in case, if they’ve ever taken the long way home because of the weird guy on the corner, just in case. Ask them if they’ve ever made up a boyfriend to get a guy to leave them alone, if they’ve ever gotten off a train car and moved to the next because you just never know, if they’ve ever shelled out for a cab because men like you were at the bus stop.”
Worth the read.
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(Reblogged from fishingboatproceeds)
Hollywood has given us two, equally false, notions of marriage. either it’s the joining of two gorgeous young people “destined” to be together, or as a wheezing and cold institution inhabited by miserable and middle-aged wheezebags, usually meant to illustrate a counterpoint to the love the gorgeous young couple in the film will share once their destinies are realized, and they are able to finally be together against all odds. yawn. boring. wrong. …
it’s doing laundry. it’s paying bills. cleaning the kitty litter. marriage is a hundred thousand tiny tasks you share. it is peeling vegetables and changing lightbulbs and giving each other quick kisses and wishing for each other “a nice day.” it is coming home and smelling dinner cooking, and running out on a cold winter night for antacid because she has a headache and cannot sleep. sometimes marriage is being pissed off at each other for weeks at a time. and sometimes it’s walking into your children’s bedrooms and watching them sleep.
Michael Ian Black
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I seriously had the worst freak out for a few moments just now doing my bills and budget. How perfectly amazing it would be to live without constantly worrying about money. I can’t even imagine it…
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(Reblogged from stapes)
We believe a line between work and life is important.
Seeley Booth, Bones
A Love Story in 22 Pictures
If you only click one link today, this should be the one.
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(Reblogged from quote-book)
Life is truly a ride. We’re all strapped in and no one can stop it. When the doctor slaps your behind, he’s ripping your ticket and away you go. As you make each passage from youth to adulthood to maturity, sometimes you put your arms up and scream, sometimes you just hang on to that bar in front of you. But the ride is the thing. I think the most you can hope for at the end of life is that your hair’s messed, you’re out of breath, and you didn’t throw up.
