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

January 7, 2012 2:19 pm
"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out."

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Stephen King
July 20, 2011 5:34 pm
nevver: Hate it

nevver:

Hate it

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March 2, 2011 8:15 pm
"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge."

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Toni Morrison, Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1993.

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February 8, 2011 10:06 pm

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December 20, 2010 9:26 pm
"Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we’ll never meet.
It’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave:
The history of how you felt."

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Simon Van Booy
December 17, 2010 3:56 am
Emily’s Team Pick: 20 Untranslatable Words From Around the World

autostraddle:

Ya’aburnee - Arabic – Both morbid and beautiful at once, this incantatory word means “You bury me,” a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person because of how difficult it…

dépaysement: the feeling that comes from not being in one’s home country

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