June 2009
7 posts
I stopped believing in you. I want to tell you...
Glory At Sea - A short film →
Siken says, “Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes again.”
Says Adam Duritz, who knows my insides.
Change, change, change.
What Makes Us Happy? - The Atlantic →
[Vaillant’s] central question is not how much or how little trouble these men met, but rather precisely how—and to what effect—they responded to that trouble. His main interpretive lens has been the psychoanalytic metaphor of “adaptations,” or unconscious responses to pain, conflict, or uncertainty. Formalized by Anna Freud on the basis of her father’s work, adaptations (also called...
my mother says that rain is angels
who are crying...
the nearly-severely depressed bird by Tao Lin
The nearly-severely depressed bird has many interests. She enjoys making smoothies; drawing different foods she has eaten; packaging things to send to other birds; stealing from corporations; supporting independent, organic vegan restaurants and grocery stores; and adhering to an organic vegan diet low in non-fruit carbohydrates, high in nuts and seeds and raw produce, and free of sugar and other...
Name: Eva
Origin: Hebrew
Meaning(s): Life. Living one. Giver of life.
The girl’s name Eva \e-va\, also used as boy’s name Eva, is pronounced EE-vah. It is of Hebrew origin, derived from the Hebrew chava (life), which is from hayya (alive, animal). Latinate form of Eve. Also an Anglicisation of the Gaelic name Aoife (beauty).
May 2009
4 posts
“Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”
– Joseph Campbell
The Emancipated Earth: Ecuador’s constitution... →
Save for land in Antarctica, the terrestrial earth is entirely owned: Considered property, it has no rights of its own. For centuries humans have capitalized on this point of view, using and abusing nature—that is, natural resources—as they’ve seen fit. This proprietary outlook might soon be displaced, and not a day too soon, given its complicity in our present environmental quagmire. In...
Smog - Running the Loping
It’s summer now...
Derek Jensen. A Language Older Than Words.
“When dams were erected on the the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I except no less from us. We too must hurl ourselves against and through the literal and metaphorical concrete that contains and constrains us, that keeps us from talking about what is most important to us, that keeps us from living the way our bones know we can, that bars us from...