depoliticize my rhyme

Eventually you can’t help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars.

—Imogen Binnie, Nevada

(Source: peninsulamamoenam, via emilybooks)

  • us government: *accidentally likes your pic from 2009*
aconversationoncool:

“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.” 
Kurt Vonnegut.

aconversationoncool:

“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.” 

Kurt Vonnegut.

(via thethinkingtank)

La peur n’évite pas le danger

In search of some inspiration I turned to an old journal. Specifically, the one I carried around two summers ago while farming, covoituraging and squatting my way through Europe. For those non-Francophiles out there, the sentence I found scribbled on the inside of its cover translates roughly to “Fearing doesn’t eliminate danger.” Two years later, it’s something I still need to be conscious of, but in the last year or two I’ve also minded that warning as I’ve kept myself moving and growing, rather than just running away.

Bleached

—Think of You