collecting myself.

My greatest success

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:18:35 -0400

One time, you told me
you aren’t really good
at anything.

I wanted to tell you
‘You are perfect’
and didn’t;

but you are not
a failure, my love.

You are sunshine,
warm and bright.

You are lightning,
electric.

My greatest success
is having you,

and I am pretty good
at a lot
of things.

"It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly...."

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:05:47 -0400

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…Lightly, lightly—it’s the best advice ever given me. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly, my darling.”

- Aldous Huxley (via didyoueatallthisacid)

If love were only black or white,

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:23:06 -0400

What would we ever paint with?
I think we stand, stuck, in the shadows,
Seeing hints of blue, poking through,
Sticking to your face.

Oh, I would sing you blue, if I could,
I would only ever hide from the rain and learn,
Every syllable of the words that,
Have been hibernating for so long.

Inside of your eyes, I live in a place,
That has always existed, yet is brand new.
And while your thumb is pulsing just to move,
I feel two quick motions too far from you.

Shoulder angled, left arm bent, right arm hidden,
Maybe clumsy and maybe awkward,
Like I would ever notice. Like I could ever focus,
On anything if I were tangled up in you.

Let me touch you with my words,
Three too few of them, I know. I know. I know.
I lift the back of these feet, avoiding searching,
For a way to explain this thing we are knowing.

How many words can I paint you,
In vibrant colors of everything outside of black and white,
In poems without structure, in the freedom of Eve,
To try and explain how warm it is in this garden.

theannieplanet: im laughing so hard

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:52:09 -0400

theannieplanet:

im laughing so hard

Photo

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:49:13 -0400

Photo

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:38:33 -0400

I don’t think many people know what it means to love, like...

Sun, 12 May 2013 11:26:25 -0400

I don’t think many people know what it means to love, like we do.

Now I feel the burdens of the past hurts,Mistrusts, miscommunications, misuse of personal...

Thu, 09 May 2013 20:18:25 -0400

Now I feel the burdens of the past hurts,
Mistrusts, miscommunications, misuse of personal property.
Now I hear the silence responding to the words,
I need someone to answer just sometimes.
Now I see you shutting down, laying down,
Disappearing into the other half of the room we share.

Forgive me for leaving,
For disappearing to those places where my future lives.
Forgive me for the fog in front of my eyes,
I cannot lift due to the heaviness of the present moment,
And all that it bears for us to continue carrying.

He will bring me new baggage.
Others have already put the weight of the New World,
Upon my shoulders.

As the shape of the weight changes,
I feel excitement in the moment of relief,
In the way I can adjust my body
To carry all of this new stuff.

I’m sorry for the way I’ve been running,
You know I’ve always cared the most.

Photo

Mon, 06 May 2013 07:38:09 -0400

tylerknott: Typewriter Series #6 by Tyler Knott...

Mon, 06 May 2013 07:37:22 -0400

tylerknott:

Typewriter Series #6 by Tyler Knott Gregson

exorcise the fears that haunt our wishes.

I dream about

Sat, 04 May 2013 08:29:02 -0400

1. A dark house full of Christmas lights,
2. and full of people,
3. and full of music,
4. and full of God.
5. A lighter heart full of freedom,
6. and a lighter pair of shoulders,
7. resting with your body,
8. hanging over them.

This is the soundtrack to my heart burning.

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 08:53:50 -0400

This is the soundtrack to my heart burning.

The College Town EP, by Ashley Hames

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 08:32:21 -0400

The College Town EP, by Ashley Hames:

5 track album

I haven’t even graduated college yet, and I already found a way to make a little bit of money doing what I love. I mean, it came way harder than that. Those were the hardest-earned $100 in the Universe. I’ve been writing and singing one of those songs since I was 17. I was the most depressed I’d ever been, and there was a glimmer of joy in just letting my heart do what it does and express itself in song. I think God meets me when I write. I don’t know why He hasn’t given me deeper material. I don’t know why I can’t write music about Him. I don’t know why, when I’m in love or in losing, I pick up a guitar and my heart will pour out in 15 minutes. But someone told me they put their daughter to sleep with the EP. Someone else told me the songs are a gift from my heart to theirs. Someone else that the EP makes them feel good. Another that they can feel my heart when they listen to it. I don’t know what God is up to, but I know this deep connection I have with other human beings through this stuff I write is pretty mystical and one of my favorite things about this life.

The College Town EP, by Ashley Hames

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:54:47 -0400

The College Town EP, by Ashley Hames:

5 track album

My EP is online for $4. That’s batshit.

somethingcleanandclever: Desert Sunrise (by cloudlessssss)

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:10:43 -0400

somethingcleanandclever:

Desert Sunrise (by cloudlessssss)

holstee: She says she knows about jokes; this time the joke is...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:39:25 -0400

holstee:

She says she knows about jokes; this time the joke is on me.

I don’t have any idea how to pick a favorite song from this particular singer/songwriter, Brett Dennen. I love them all, each one more the last.

So, I won’t: instead, I’ll go for his top-notch acoustic cover of Paul Simon’s “Crazy Love Vol. II” from Simon’s 7th studio release, Graceland. Swoon and swoon.

You should also check out this still tragically unreleased track, “You and I,” if for nothing more than his ukelele-hula-hooping skills. Highly anticipating this on his next folksy, funky album.

I really can’t wait for the next album. Except I can. We keep saying, “There’s such high standards… What if it doesn’t meet our expectations?”

"I’d rather be a starving artist than succeed at getting fucked."

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:40:46 -0400

“I’d rather be a starving artist than succeed at getting fucked.”

- Macklemore

Take my whole life, too.

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:38:35 -0400

Take my whole life, too.

momentsifeelfaint: This is my favorite Taizé chant God, let my...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:46:55 -0400

momentsifeelfaint:

This is my favorite Taizé chant

God, let my thoughts gather themselves to you. With you is the light, you do not forget me. With you there is help, with you there is patience. I understand your ways, but you know the way for me.

Abba.

cantwaittoteach: accidentully: “I still believe, in spite of...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:08:06 -0400

cantwaittoteach:

accidentully:

“I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are really good at heart.”

i can’t not reblog her

Amazing photos…