'And my whole body's in flames'

How is he so patient?

Luke, you are an angel.

Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away?

I hope, that when you see this, you are just as fucking ashamed to be a human being as I am sometimes.

Most people will not watch this at all. Some will give up half way through because it's too painful to watch - I can understand this but pleasethink about how painful it is for those animals. And a few, rare people will have the guts to watch the video until the end, a few people will have the courage to accept that this is happening and that this is wrong. Which one are you? Will you turn away into that old familiar selfish comfort?


Learn more at PETA.org.

'What does it matter if I change the world at all?'

I am suffocated by routine. I need to just go and be wild.

'My respect to the ones in the forest
standing up for our old trees'

you can still ruin my day

'I don't wait by the phone like I used to,
I don't hope for kind words you might say,
you don't prey on my mind like you used to
but you can still ruin my day.'

I thought I had forgiven but in reality, I just hadn't accepted it. I am now swimming in the deep realisation of it all. Muddy, polluted waters spin around my ears and eyes and there are so many islands I'm neglecting because the filth surrounding me is in the way. Saying things aloud to people has helped - a lover, a soul-mate, and a teacher - and all three of them have handed me wood, now I just need to learn how to build a raft, never expecting I'd need one in such a shape.

'I don't easily forgive like I used to
and I seldom get carried away;
no, you don't have the pull that you used to
but you can still ruin my day.'

This all must come out, in whatever form. And soon. Because burying the past no longer works for me. Illumination, clarity and perhaps one day a forgiveness is what will set this free.

'Now, I don't lose my place like I used to;
I'm not moved by your artful display.
No, you can't draw me in like you used to
but you can still ruin my day.'

'I do not wish to treat friendships daintily...

but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know.'
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Congratulations Mandymoo!

Follow your heart and may your soul continue in its radiant brilliance.

The dream is alive

Obama, even though you fucked up your oath, I still have faith in you.

I am practically living in two houses.

I am actually freezing.

Nellie McKay, I love you

...aaaand my brother has just left the house wearing leggings

'Everything popular is wrong'

Yesterday I had a history exam, went out for dinner, yada yada yada.

I can't remember the last weekend I had at home, with nobody far away to visit and no festivities to attend. This weekend is no different either!

Joanna needs to rest her tired mind, and yet, it buzzes! Will Joanna's mind ever relax? Even when her mind is done of homework, studying, and continual ponderings about feminism and spirituality, it invents something to worry about! I blame society. Once my mind is finished with the important things it focuses on the indoctrination it's been subjected to its entire life - THIS IS WHAT YOU SHOULD LOOK LIKE, THIS IS HOW YOU ARE EXPECTED TO BEHAVE, IF YOU DO NOT FOLLOW THE RIDICULOUS, SHALLOW RULES OF MEDIA AND ADVERTISING THEN YOU ARE WORTHLESS!

Although that doesn't happen very often at all these days, which I'm rather pleased about. I actually feel rather triumphant about it.

I've been trying to find articles for my English coursework all morning and, after going through about 70 articles, I'm now undecided about the subject I wish to approach. Back to the drawing board, it seems. I need some sort of divine inspiration!

Oh yes, I did

“ 'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.” - Naomi Wolf