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April 2013

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I Will Eat Your English: In class, we had to write our own kind of epistle... → iwilleatyourenglish.tumblr.com

iwilleatyourenglish:

Not sure how I feel about this one — it’s not like my usual style at all.

—-

For the Girl with the Peaches

I think sometimes that I am afraid

that you will wait for me,

creasing your future at its corners

so it may not yet unfurl, pinning it up

along the clothesline, or folding it

like…

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“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.” —Frederick Douglass
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June 2012

23 posts

I learned a lot today.

misiantaylor:

I learned about group of fiesty women on a bridge in Amsterdam who dropped trou to change small policy, I learned how fist my heart is when confronted with 1930’s racism in south central Wisconsin newspaper comics, about my own ability to grow out of old molds I made and labeled ”supposed to be,” I saw and felt how a heart stretches well past the dotted lines of its seams.

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ABCDETC.: evidently → misiantaylor.tumblr.com

misiantaylor:

the way to have a phenomenal morning is to wake up at 7am, kiss your girlfriend twice, doddle until 8:30, get dressed quickly, wear a bridesmaids dress, bike to a cafe with big framed photos of trees for windows to meet a friend where you will write unapologetically and forget that anyone has ever…

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ABCDETC.: When we’re sad, we have a tendency to rollup like newspapers and... → misiantaylor.tumblr.com

misiantaylor:

When we’re sad, we have a tendency to roll
up like newspapers and detach ourselves
from the world. In a bed. Beneath every blanket.
With the lights out.

If every time we are sad, we detach
fall of the side of the mountain we’re climbing
we’re never gonna get to the top.

Next time you feel like…

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