Taylor Chiotti
@botgirl2000
Taylor Chiotti
@botgirl2000
People were losing excitement about the internet, starting to articulate a set of new truisms. Facebook had become tedious, trivial, exhausting. Instagram seemed better, but would soon reveal its underlying function as a three-ring circus of happiness and popularity and success. Twitter, for all its discursive promise, was where everyone tweeted
... See moreHow it felt to me: that is getting closer to the truth about a note book. I sometimes delude myself about why I keep a notebook, imagine that some thrifty virtue derives from preserving everything observed. See enough and write it down, I tell myself, and then some morning when the world seems drained of wonder, some day when I am only going
... See morePerfectionism is based on the belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping stone just right you don’t have to die. The truth is you’re going to die anyway and a lot of people who aren’t even looking at their feet are going to do a lot better than you and have a lot more fun
-anne lamott, bird by bird
although the men I have known have had many virtues and have taken me to live in many places I have come to love, they have never been John Wayne, and they have never taken me to that bend in the river where the cottonwoods grow. Deep in that part of my heart where the artificial rain forever falls, that is still the line I wait to hear.
