Ode to Future Husband

quarter-lifeuncertaincies: shygirl364: Jenna Fischer on her...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:01:59 -0400

shygirl364:

Jenna Fischer on her bond with John Krasinski - Late Night With Jimmy Fallon - 5/6/13

They were always meant to be!

brotips: Me and her? Dude, not even if she was...

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:02:14 -0400

brotips:

Me and her? Dude, not even if she was hot.

-Sketch

Posters

“He didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity."

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:01:55 -0400

panic-moonwalker:

"Don’t go far off, not even for a day, because — because — I don’t know how to say it: a day is long..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:02:13 -0400

“

Don’t go far off, not even for a day, because —
because — I don’t know how to say it: a day is long
and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station
when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.

Don’t leave me, even for an hour, because
then the little drops of anguish will all run together,
the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift
into me, choking my lost heart.

Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach;
may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance.
Don’t leave me for a second, my dearest,

because in that moment you’ll have gone so far
I’ll wander mazily over all the earth, asking,
Will you come back? Will you leave me here, dying?

”

- Pablo Neruda (via mazychartreuse)

humansofnewyork: “One of my plays is getting produced!” “What’s...

Fri, 10 May 2013 12:01:54 -0400

humansofnewyork:

“One of my plays is getting produced!”
“What’s it about?”
“So there’s this guy, and he really loves this one girl— she’s the girl of his dreams. But she’s going off to college. So he applies to every nearby college, just so he can be close to her. But the only college that accepts him is a clown college. But here’s the thing— he’s terrified of clowns.”

awww. i wanna watch this play.

timeshaiku: A haiku from the article: Kierkegaard’s ‘Antigone’...

Wed, 08 May 2013 12:02:01 -0400

timeshaiku:

A haiku from the article: Kierkegaard’s ‘Antigone’

Surviving wedding season: Sanity-saving strategies for brides, grooms, attendants and guests.

Mon, 06 May 2013 12:02:02 -0400

Surviving wedding season: Sanity-saving strategies for brides, grooms, attendants and guests.:

Sanity-saving strategies for brides, grooms, attendants and guests.

via myfriendsaremarried

humansofnewyork: “What happened?” “It has to do with alcohol. I...

Thu, 02 May 2013 12:02:02 -0400

humansofnewyork:

“What happened?”

“It has to do with alcohol. I haven’t really told the story to anyone.”

“Will you tell me?”

“…well, I’d been drinking everyday for several years. In 2009 I tried to quit. So I stopped drinking for two days, and I got so sick that I couldn’t eat or sleep. But I still decided to try to go to work. I got so weak that I passed out in the BART station while I was waiting for the train. When I woke up, I was paralyzed from the waist down.”

“Oh man.”

“You want to know the sad part?”

“What’s that?”

“I’m still drinking. Because of the loneliness.”

(San Francisco, CA)

not quite germane to the theme, but this breaks my heart.

humansofnewyork: “What’s the most romantic thing he’s ever...

Thu, 02 May 2013 00:20:50 -0400

humansofnewyork:

“What’s the most romantic thing he’s ever done?”
“Oh God, he’s hopeless. During our first year of marriage, he celebrated our anniversary every single month.”

(San Francisco, CA)

brotips: Dropping hints, yo. -Sketch Posters

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:01:48 -0400

brotips:

Dropping hints, yo.

-Sketch

Posters

humansofnewyork: “I didn’t marry the woman I should have...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:02:11 -0400

humansofnewyork:

“I didn’t marry the woman I should have married.”

“What happened?”

“We got in a big fight. Then the war came.”

The Storm

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:02:22 -0400

arynkyle:

We had a hurricane a couple months ago—you might have heard about it. Turned out to be a bit of a non-event, this hurricane. At least in New York. But the day-or-so leading up to it? Total shit-storm.

Originally, I had plans to spend Hurricane Night with friends in Brooklyn, but as the hullabaloo about taped windows and bottled water and “go bags” grew in intensity, my friends began to vacillate: Maybe we should all stay put. Maybe we should hunker down. The difference between my friends and me, however, was that they were all hunkering down with someone else, whilst I was hunkering alone.

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Jessi Marquez: Best dating advice I could ever give

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:01:48 -0400

Jessi Marquez: Best dating advice I could ever give:

jessimarquez:

The best dating advice I could ever give.

Stop dating imaginary people. Period.

I know, I know this sounds like a huge revelation - the truth remains - half the people reading this blog are dating a person in their head that isn’t real.

I did it myself.

I have a picture…

nothing more attractive than...

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 12:02:10 -0400

steveyeun:

there is nothing more attractive on a woman than talent. well maybe if they are kind too. but equally with the talent. but then if they are funny that’s cool too. ok there is nothing more attractive on a woman than talent, kindness, funny, oh and attractive. ok cool, just women. there is nothing more attractive than a woman.

Twenty years ago, on April 1, tragedy struck my family; since...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:50:00 -0400

Twenty years ago, on April 1, tragedy struck my family; since then, I had vowed never to join in on the joking around.

Ironically (I guess I’ll find out if I’m using that term correctly), I’ve decided as an adult to break that vow, which in retrospect I made rather precociously.

Now given my age, this will probably be the first & last time I play this joke!

So to be clear, my responses to JB’s questions:

Yes; happy April Fools’ day, y’all.
Hadn’t thought that. Nice sentiment, but I hope I’ll never have rely on Facebook to make my relationship with Jesus official/legitimate. :-P
Not for real; I totally remembered today is April 1st (and for some friends, it’s already April 2nd).

Wouldn’t that be something if it were real, though? Thankful for the friends and loved ones who would be as excited about such a development as I would be — if not more so.

So my thankful apologies (or rather, apologetic thank yous) to those who were duped. I hope that today continues to be filled with only benign mischief. :)

goodwomenproject: By Emily Bronte From @cassieclerget Happy...

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 12:01:57 -0400

goodwomenproject:

By Emily Bronte From @cassieclerget Happy Easter weekend everyone! #goodwomenpoetry http://bit.ly/11Z2vpT

When I notice that some women on The Bachelor are younger than me

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:02:05 -0400

myfriendsaremarried:

teehee, kinda guilty.

The Seventh Story

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:01:51 -0400

The Seventh Story:

goodwomenproject:

By @EvanDunnPoet

I used to be that guy who would argue
that this world has really gotten better,
that women – at least in this country – are equal,
and sure, there are a few remaining inequalities
but women even have a few advantages over men.

And then I heard the statistics,
but that wasn’t what changed my mind.
This is more of a big-picture issue
than a bunch of numbers
or the fact that only women’s bathrooms have perfume sprays.
And this is more of a story
than a big-picture issue.

The first time I heard her story
was in the upper chamber of a church
that looked like it was decorated two generations ago.
I heard what it means to have two generations
of your own family
wage uncivil war
on you.

The second time I heard her story
was in the front seat of a Volkswagen – you know they all smell like crayons?
I heard what it means to be attacked
with such slow patience
that some see it and still call it love;
they disregarded the battlescars of battered dignity,
claimed to be community,
and in the dust-settled aftermath,
condemned her.

The third time I heard her story
was a poem
in an auditorium
with only 30 people in the 500 seats.
No one wants to hear that poem.
No wants to hear that story,
the one about the shelling,
carpet-bombing,
total war,
two, three, four… twenty times from twenty men
to both her and her friend.

The fourth time I heard her story
was at 3 in the morning
sitting on a living room couch
the sound of the freeway providing the white noise
to her dark narrative.
Her grandfather
should have been an ally.

The fifth time,
I heard a chorus of dozens of middle and high school girls
most of them singing war story-songs
about when they were 8 or 7 or 6,
and I had to ask them if they wanted counseling
and they had to say “no”
because who wants to relive that?
But they all wanted to live again.

The sixth story
was a night out with a friend,
and some strange man pulled her away,
took her around the corner
unseen, unknown,
but not unscathed.

And this one
hit too close to home
to stay silent.

A woman once told me
that poets write about these stories too much,
but until I find a story with a different conclusion
I can’t keep my pen from this paper.

I will pray that shellshock does not keep my ears shut,
I will listen quickly and speak sparingly,
and hear each story sung in my direction.

I cannot win a war for anyone,
but I can put down my gun,
and pen what peace I know
until this war is written back into the dust where it belongs;
until the battleground becomes a barely-audible breeze,
the whisper of a time when an army landed on this shore,
and then
the seventh story sung into perfection,
no more will the fighters fight;
no more will the poets write;
no more
will my sisters know
this
war.

beautiful. press on, poet.

The Friend Zone: It’s Not Just for Men

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:01:45 -0400

The Friend Zone: It’s Not Just for Men :

goodmenproject:

The Friend Zone exists, and it’s not just something women do to men, Neil Sheppard reports. “I know, because I’ve done it.

When confident, social people get stuck in this situation, they cut their losses and move on. When lonely, isolated, awkward people get stuck in the Friend Zone, however, it can hit them hard.

I really liked this graf:

There’s been a lot of angry words passed back and forth between men who think the Friend Zone is some sort of female conspiracy and women who think it’s patriarchal propaganda. Personally, I think it has very little to do with the battle of the sexes. It’s just a mistake people make—on one side for being a bad loser in love and, sometimes, on the other for not giving someone who cares about you a chance.

"It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He creates."

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 12:01:41 -0500

“It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He creates.”

- Amy Carmichael (via definedbyyou)

Werd.