once wild

if the heart is wild, no fence will keep you

23. Portland Native. Tanzania Bound. Tattoo Lover. Jesus Follower. Believer in the Seamless Garment. World Citizen. Teacher. Bibliophile. Whimsical. Wild at Heart. HIV/AIDS Activist. Egalitarian. Feminist. Dreamer. Karaoke Queen. Writer. Constantly Changing.

Things I love (& tend to post): world maps, tattoos, trees, bird imagery, RENT, history from multiple perspectives, celebrating cultures, mason jars, owls, roller derby, quotes, nature

June 3, 2012 6:27 pm

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8:57 am
I always imagined it being the Smashing Pumpkins version.  Mostly because it’s my favorite version in all the land.

I always imagined it being the Smashing Pumpkins version.  Mostly because it’s my favorite version in all the land.

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7:22 am
booksandtea: “Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.” by Islay Rose on Flickr.

booksandtea:

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.” by Islay Rose on Flickr.

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June 2, 2012 11:03 pm
"I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I."

—

Greta Garbo (Picture Show Magazine Interview, 1927).

We’re having my step-dad’s “Awake Wake” at the ocean this weekend, and it is beautiful.

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9:59 pm
britticisms: I love this tweet because it is so true and universal. Perhaps we turn to dance music during times of confusion and upheaval. Perhaps we turn to dance music because a truly great dance song compacts euphoria in a only a few minutes. When necessary, we can turn back to what we heard before to relive the way it made us feel.  My friend turned 25 in January and we celebrated her birthday on the basement dance floor of a local bar and restaurant. I arrived to the space in a strange mood. The weather was warmer than average. It was January, but I took a long walk from my apartment, thinking about the day and the way I cried out of exhaustion and through exhaustion.  But then there was Azari & III and Robin S and Daft Punk and Nightcrawlers and Stardust and what was I thinking about before? What was upsetting me all day? What did I feel back then? I couldn’t say. I didn’t care.  Things that happen when I couch surf at my mom’s: I get her addicted to RuPaul’s Drag Race. 

britticisms:

I love this tweet because it is so true and universal. Perhaps we turn to dance music during times of confusion and upheaval. Perhaps we turn to dance music because a truly great dance song compacts euphoria in a only a few minutes. When necessary, we can turn back to what we heard before to relive the way it made us feel. 

My friend turned 25 in January and we celebrated her birthday on the basement dance floor of a local bar and restaurant. I arrived to the space in a strange mood. The weather was warmer than average. It was January, but I took a long walk from my apartment, thinking about the day and the way I cried out of exhaustion and through exhaustion. 

But then there was Azari & III and Robin S and Daft Punk and Nightcrawlers and Stardust and what was I thinking about before? What was upsetting me all day? What did I feel back then? I couldn’t say. I didn’t care. 

Things that happen when I couch surf at my mom’s: I get her addicted to RuPaul’s Drag Race. 

June 1, 2012 12:23 pm

literarytattoos

I’m not sure how I feel yet about introducing my little sister to Perks of Being a Wallflower because of her love of Emma Watson.  I guess it’s as good of a gateway drug as any.

May 30, 2012 4:56 pm
"You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again."

—

Azar Nafisi

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1:08 pm
"I am no bird, and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you."

—

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

I finally read this while living in Tanzania and…totally don’t get why people love it so much.  The whole time I was thinking, “Go your own way, girl.  Rochester is a creeper.”

May 29, 2012 4:47 pm

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May 28, 2012 8:44 am
bookmania: from Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan

bookmania:

from Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan

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May 27, 2012 11:56 pm
neil-gaiman: inkygirl: Illustrated my favourite Neil Gaiman quote for writers. :-) (and thanks to Neil for his permission) It’s as true now as when I first said it…

neil-gaiman:

inkygirl:

Illustrated my favourite Neil Gaiman quote for writers. :-) (and thanks to Neil for his permission)

It’s as true now as when I first said it…

11:37 pm
"Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is a proof that humans are capable of magic."

—

Carl Sagan
May 25, 2012 6:13 pm
theboyyouveknown: (via imgTumble)

theboyyouveknown:

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5:02 pm
"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply."

—

Stephen R. Covey

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1:22 am
Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.-Chaim Potok (favorite writer in all the land)

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.
-Chaim Potok (favorite writer in all the land)