Nov 2014

Nov 6
cleaning up a little

Deleted a bunch of spambot comments. It's interesting which posts they've been hammering.

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Nov 15
time traveling

"This weekend left me thinking about the nature of courage: To stay in the fight, even without any hope of winning, and let yourself be destroyed ingloriously? Or to look at the darkness with both eyes wide open, and realize, it's time to let go, there's no point in hanging on and tearing the whole thing down with me? Each to their own, I guess."

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Nov 17
Love and Luck

I love you so much
And the more I know you
The longer I know you
The more I love you
The more I learn about you
The more I love you

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Nov 20
it's always darkest before the dawn

Hyperbolically speaking, it does seem like things have a tendency to end up working out for me once I've lost all hope #LetItGo

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Nov 22
equilibrium

Only in silence the word
only in dark the light,
only in dying life:
bright the hawk's flight
on the empty sky
—Ursula K. Le Guin The Wizard of Earthsea

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Nov 22
feelings of inadequacy

Everything that happened had to have happened, because I wasn't enough. Some lessons are hard and painful, but live and learn.

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Nov 23
rewind

It has been more than 14 years since I started writing down my thoughts and posting them. It has only really been in the last year or so that I've chanced to look back and trawl through the vast tracts of ephemera and melodrama. And it occurs to me that I only write here when I am sad and anguished. I rarely write when I am happy and joyful, or if I do, usually it's tempered by melancholy. So these blog posts provide a skewed picture. (Although I haven't really chronicled the grimmest moments, either.)

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