You know me, I’ve always been the kind with easy confidence—confident enough to believe that nothing out there’s stopping me, especially not someone who’s not loving me.
—The Avett Brothers
The small changes I’ve been making for the last 6 months have all of a sudden added up to something much larger than I ever could have anticipated.
In a month I’ll be in Chicago with my new roommates, my new job, my new car and my new life.
Here’s to the people I haven’t met yet that I’ll come to love before August. Here’s to the friends I’ve already fallen in love with all over the country. Here’s to my 21st year. Two days in and it’s already the best yet.
I ain’t saying you treated me unkind. You could have dont better, but I don’t mind. You just kind of wasted my precious time. But don’t think twice, it’s alright.
—Bob Dylan
I think the big picture I’m trying to form in my conscious heart is the fundamental understanding that we were never meant to end our life with anything left. Like, we’re born FULL, and our job is to wake up from this dream of a life EMPTY. If I get to the end and still have a heart, fortified by stone, and full—- I will have ended without finishing. I think I’m understanding I’m supposed to arrive in the great unknown hollow. I’m supposed to have given every glimpse of this glittery heart I have been graciously given away. Because its of no deed of mine that I aquired it. I woke from the womb with it. To keep something that was inherently never mine is stealing…. I think society has it all wrong. There is no honor in protection. There is no respect for the greed. The great task before us is to reach an empty-hearted finish. To be empty is not missing out. To be empty is to have filled others. To surround yourself with the empty people is to feel inexplicable direction and purpose. I think when we talk about being around people who ‘inspire’ us. We’re trying to describe the rush of looking around and being able to see we’ve found a piece of the yellow brick road, and its the only way to Oz.
You, upsidedown
I wrote this over a year ago, and today it’s everything I needed to hear someone say. I’ve already said it. This is why I blog…. I know I’ll need to hear it all again one day.
summer’s coming
(Source: zerahzerahzerah, via s-antorini)
A lot of things have changed since the last full moon.
It’s been 21 days
and I’m out of the habit.
As it turns out,
protecting was a kolasal waste of time.
yep
“This is the first day of my life. I swear I was born right in the doorway…These things take forever. I especially am slow, but I realize that I need you and I wondered if I could come home.”
Something broke that I can’t seem to mend. ‘Cause some things break before they bend.
—Dr. Dog
Dr. Dog’s new album “Be The Void” comes out next Tuesday, but you can listen to the entire thing on TeamCoco.com today! It’s Internet magic! Also, be sure to tune in next Wednesday, February 8th to see them on the show!
Gowa’s Cabin on Flickr.
I want to transform others.
When I go,
I hope what people miss about me is my love.
By the time I go,
I hope they don’t need it anymore.
