—THAT’S THE SOUND OF LETTING GO
…I hate when I’m being selfish and don’t even know I am.
…Or when I’m the least important thing in that moment, yet I feel as if I’m the most.
…Yesterday one of my friends, in an attempt to be helpful and get me to my goal of writing hopeful, happy endings, suggested that I write down all my thoughts each day and go back and make them into a story. Again, they were totally sweet and so well-meaning, so I nodded, said, “Thanks,” and thought—I do that here, already, and no princess has ever kissed a frog that’s turned into a prince.
...You can be on the same side and still shoot that other person through the heart without meaning to.
…“You’re particularly cute, aren’t you?”
…You’ve got better things to do than making my day.
…After 1989, I’ll never stop noticing the racial mix of any crowd I’m in. It’s probably obnoxious as fuck to the people I’m with, but I can’t help it.
…Anyone who writes “full disclosure” and then proceeds to disclose something vulnerable is always going to own a piece of my heart.
…You only get so many gifts in your life, yet somehow, more seem to drop in my lap all the time. And I know I don’t deserve them, but I am grateful nonetheless.
…“We all live caught between fear and love.” Jim Moore
…I think I’d be in a lot better place if I could just teach myself to expect less. I don’t mean that arrogantly. I mean it from a position of mishandling my expectations and being unable to establish the boundaries other people seem to do without even thinking about it.
…“It’s hard not to act privileged when you are.” Rorry Dunbar
…I wouldn’t trust me either.
…One thing that made me happy this week was seeing a video of a momma duck crossing 4th Street in Marysville with her five ducklings in tow, a police car having cordoned off the intersection and one of the officers sort of shooing them through the crosswalk. Why those little guys didn’t up and fly off is anybody’s guess. Maybe because they couldn’t yet? Anyway, pretty adorable.
…Sometimes the best stuff I get is found in my Junk box. You might want to take a look yourself.
…Writing down random things that interest me, no matter where I am or what I’m doing, is probably going to be a habit I’ll never kick.
…I never mind other peoples’ typos, but I sure hate mine.
…“We all want to forget something, so we tell stories. It's easier that way.” Sam Rasnake
…It only hurts if you care.
…One of my favorite things is feeling grateful to be alive, and really meaning it.
…“Meanwhile in my head I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.” Anne Sexton
…When you’re brave enough to send a piece of yourself to someone and you get no reply of any kind, that’s the worst shun in the world.
…I pull a Britney every other week.
…The other day I was cleaning up my office and rifling through long-dormant files (like, the paper kind) and I found clippings and old photos of me with Jewel and Linda Evangelista and Prince Andrew (at the time, he was a “Trade Emissary” in the US, but creepy AF even then), and I’m looking at myself thinking, Who was that guy?
…That wasn’t the first time I left a message, and you know as well as I do that it won’t be the last.
…People without vices should inspire me, but really they just make me suspicious.
…"I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art." Helena Bonham Carter
…“No one’s ever heard that song.”
…I always wonder what people mean when they say, “Hey, stranger,” when I’m not one.
…I could be wrong, but it seems like grateful people are the ones to trust.
…Better watch your back. You can get hurt like that.
…“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter” -John Keats
…Can you brainwash yourself? Because I think I have a few times.
…Some days you do your best. Some days you do what gets you out of bed.
…“I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.” William Trevor
…The paradox with reading a lot is it’s a complete joy discovering a new writer, but then after you have, you need to go out and buy everything they’ve ever written.
…You hear what you want to hear. I guess everyone does, even if they don’t think so.
…After all this time, I’ve still got an awful lot to learn.
…It’s a little too easy to up and run.
…“There are obvious problems with measuring happiness.”
…You’re gonna hate me later.
…This is probably TMI, but I’m not a fan of showers and I take as few as possible. I hate feeling cold when you first get in, and then freezing when you get out.
…And I called the doctor. He said, Nothing’s wrong.
…It seems like, if you try hard and long enough, you can find symbolism in anything, and while your take might be wrong, it might be right to you. And isn’t that something worthwhile?
…"I was writing it [thinking], 'This is how I feel. There's got to be some other people that feel this way.'" Zach Braff on A Good Person
…It doesn’t do any good to remember the bad parts, so why do I?
…REPORTING 14 ASSAULTS NEAR YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD OVER THE LAST 7 DAYS. THAT’S 2.4 TIMES MORE THAN AVERAGE
…“And like all lovers and sad people, I am a poet.” Allen Ginsberg
…Just one more time, I promise. Pinkie swear.
…“I may or may not be…”
…“I found a wooden shoe in my toilet today. It was clogged.” --Someone
…“I saw a shoe singing Motown songs the other day. It had sole.” –Someone else
…What was I saying again?
…Sometimes I don’t know what the fuck I’m feeling.
…Eyes on me. Tell me what you want.
… “We are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being.” Martin Amis, “London Fields"
…Convict and convicted—after all this time, I just made the connection.
…If you don’t have a waterpik, you don’t know what you’re missing.
…Isn’t missing something, or someone, the worst thing ever?
…Here’s a happy thought—while you and I were here, a baby, and then another baby, and then another beautiful baby, was being born.
…The Cantril Ladder:
Please imagine a ladder with steps numbered from 0 at the bottom to 10 at the top. The top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you. On which step of the ladder would you say you personally feel you stand at this time?
…“How would I know? I only have this one life?” Mikko Tirronen
…It’s Friday. I know how special or liberating that day is for a lot of people, and maybe for you, too, so I hope it launches your weekend in all the ways you hope it will.
…All your life, all your life, I really hope you’re happy all your life.