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“The Laughing Heart” by Charles Bukowski

December 27, 2017

your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.

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December 21, 2017

“Music is a total constant. That’s why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen.

“The Hangman at Home” poem by Carl Sandburg

November 8, 2017

What does a hangman think about
When he goes home at night from work?
When he sits down with his wife and
Children for a cup of coffee and a
Plate of ham and eggs, do they ask
Him if it was a good day’s work
And everything went well or do they
Stay off some topics and kill about
The weather, baseball, politics
And the comic strips in the papers
And the movies? Do they look at his
Hands when he reaches for the coffee
Or the ham and eggs? If the little
Ones say, Daddy, play horse, here’s
A rope–does he answer like a joke:
I seen enough rope for today?
Or does his face light up like a
Bonfire of joy and does he say:
It’s a good and dandy world we live
‘In. And if a white face moon looks
In through a window where a baby girl
Sleeps and the moon-gleams mix with
Baby ears and baby hair–the hangman–
How does he act then? It must be easy
For him. Anything is easy for a hangman,
I guess.

I found this beautiful poem today and I fell in love with it.

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September 2, 2017

“Do not fall in love with people like me. 
I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.
I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.” 
― Caitlyn Siehl, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems.

Poem from Movie

August 18, 2017

I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair.

I hate the way you drive my car,

I hate it when you stare.

I hate your big dumb combat boots and the way you read my mind.

I hate you so much it makes me sick, it even makes my rhyme.

I hate the way you’re always right, I hate it when you lie,

I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry.

I hate it when you’re not around and the fact that you didn’t call

but mostly I hate the way I don’t hate you, not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.

From The Movie 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

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August 3, 2017

I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.” 
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Short Film: Skhizein

July 28, 2017

Skhizein (from Ancient Greek σχίζειν / s’chizein “split off”/schizophrenia ) is a French, an animated short film from 2008 by Jérémy Clapin , who led both directed and wrote the screenplay. The film has been nominated and honored at various film festivals . He won, among others, the Kodak Short Film Award at Cannes Film Festival , where he was also premiered at the Festival d’Animation Annecy and in 2009 the SWR audience at the Trickfilmfestival Stuttgart.

Mental health is important. We should care more about ourselves and people around us.

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July 11, 2017

In my religion, we’re taught that every living thing, every leaf, every bird, is only alive because it contains the secret word for life. That’s the only difference between us and a lump of clay. A word. Words are life, Liesel.

From the movie The Book Theif (2013).