profoundly limited

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Tue, 21 May 2013 12:20:54 -0400

kateoplis: Shiba Ryotaro library | Tadao Ando

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:23:01 -0400

Shiba Ryotaro library | Tadao Ando

"People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:24:49 -0400

“People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage. The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience. The lady that only read books that improved her mind was taking a safe course—and a hopeless one. She’ll never know whether her mind is improved or not, but should she ever, by some mistake, read a great novel, she’ll know mighty well that something is happening to her.”

- Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose (with thanks to settledthingsstrange and habitofbeing)

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Thu, 09 May 2013 21:57:35 -0400

prayforprada: Tian Yi By Oliver Stalmans For Elle Vietnam May...

Wed, 08 May 2013 11:39:46 -0400

prayforprada:

Tian Yi By Oliver Stalmans For Elle Vietnam May 2013

stopdropandvogue: literally

Mon, 06 May 2013 21:51:16 -0400

stopdropandvogue:

literally

nevver: The Alphabet

Fri, 03 May 2013 00:29:17 -0400

nevver:

The Alphabet

Lana Del Rey - Prom Song (Gone Wrong) So I’m sitting here...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:31:11 -0400

Lana Del Rey - Prom Song (Gone Wrong)

So I’m sitting here with some frozen food, a Calpico lychee drink, and a cookie I put in the fridge yesterday (what? yes.). Finals. It’s not beautiful.

browncoat-named-cauthon: gpoy

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:58:53 -0400

browncoat-named-cauthon:

gpoy

rxn.

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:02:38 -0400

rxn.

Law sk00l.

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:10:09 -0400

Law sk00l.

kateoplis: City of Books Heaven.

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:43:57 -0400

kateoplis:

City of Books

Heaven.

by Grant Snider

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:35:29 -0400

by Grant Snider

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Thu, 04 Apr 2013 23:31:52 -0400

I fear I am running out of things to say these days. There is...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:01:00 -0400

I fear I am running out of things to say these days. There is something to be missed in how I used to document my life more through this ‘blog’ or whatever you call it. It’s National Poetry Month, which reminds me that I may have lost all literary ability over the past few months of briefing cases. A part of me that refuses to believe it, and hopes that it’s just the wear-and-tear of monotony that is dragging me down a bit. All I know is that I was walking down the street and couldn’t recall the part of me that used to allow life to pass through me, that would absorb what I observed and transform it into something more abstract, but emotionally precise. It didn’t even have to be with words, but I couldn’t step back into the feeling.

We all need touchstones of humanity, and rather than make this my exception to a reductive life, I want to be more than that.

Sometimes I’m encouraged to write about my experiences here, but it’s not that I harbor general feelings of ill will towards school. Rather, there is nothing soft to it. Nothing that presses down into anything moldable. Everything is sharp, everything is logic, everything is bickering and sudden movements and ill-disguised intentions. I want to bite into life and have it burst into a messy, far-reaching stain. And wipe it away years later to see which patterns remain. And start all over again. I miss taking the time. The smell of humidity. The sting of wind over jazz. The poem that makes me put down the book. The emptiness that precedes a new memory.

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Sun, 31 Mar 2013 12:28:12 -0400

lauramcphee: Profile study, c1944 (Erwin Blumenfeld)

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:20:18 -0400

lauramcphee:

Profile study, c1944 (Erwin Blumenfeld)

I don't know how I stumbled upon your blog, but I did somehow (such is the way of the internet I guess), and before I knew it I'd been following for almost a year. You remind me that there's more beauty in life than what I can see from down here. So thanks

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:42:00 -0400

well thank you! the older we get (especially now in law school…) the harder it is to see the beauty, especially when the pressures we used to ignore in pursuit of some higher truth smack us in the face in the name of reality. but I believe that once you know you can feel strongly and deeply about things, no one can take that away from you. empathy. it is real.

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Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:54:09 -0400

highonflowers: tanya dziahileva by carlotta mainago

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:18:49 -0400

highonflowers:

tanya dziahileva by carlotta mainago