Around the world, people are clicking a link to a video titled "The Most POWERFUL Wisdom You Will Ever Hear" and it presents Alice Herz-Sommer, a 109 year old Holocaust survivor. When asked "What is the secret of feeling so good at your age?" she answered "Optimism and looking for the good." and this reminded me of you.

It reminded me of you


Don't give up

Don't focus on the pain
The only thing that is real
Is what makes your heart scream
Perception is a needle
It will tear and it will sting
You can try to hide it all away
But through it I will remain

You have disappeared my friend
Forever lost to this world
Here I stand unknown, in the end
On this fresh pile of dirt
Above seeds and rotten eggs

Don't push away the pain
The only thing that is real
Is what makes your heart bleed
Perception is inception
It will build and it will breathe
You can try to push them away
But through it all I remain

You have disappeared my friend
Forever lost to this world
Here I stand alone, with a stain
Of your heart on my shirt
Above ashes, flames and Jane

Labels: artform, buckley, To a person who never returned to the world, video

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

- Carl Jung

Labels: passages, please feel secure, spring

There are people I might have loved had they gotten on the airplane or run down the street after me or called me up drunk at four in the morning because they need to tell me right now and because they cannot regret this and I always thought I’d be the only one doing crazy things for people who would never give enough of a fuck to do it back or to act like idiots or be entirely vulnerable and honest and making someone fall in love with you is easy and flying 3000 miles on four days notice because you can’t just sit there and do nothing and breathe into telephones is not everyone’s idea of love but it is the way I can recognize it because that is what I do.

- Harvey Milk

Labels: alarming truthness, diy, rant