About
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Eyes open, and walk with the shadows.
!To The End Of All Things!
Jsem Romský aktivista!
Jsem porodní asistentka!
my writing=my thinking: nonlinear, spontaneous, & w/o much censoring or boundary
Languages used
- American English
- British English
- Latin
- Romani
Education
- University of Pittsburgh
- Community College of Allegheny County
Favorite saying
- ""Science, like any religion, has its zealots." ~ Michele James-Parham (me)
“I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic -- in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.” ~ Anais Nin
"You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened." ~ John Green
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I will meet you there." ~ Rumi
“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.” ~ Billy - age 4
"Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it." ~ Brene Brown
"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself." ~ Thich Nhat Hann
"Birth is as safe as Life gets." ~ Harriette Hartigan
"imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia" ~ John Green
"fuck security. security is low hanging fruit. reach for the sun." ~ Maia Williams
"People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain!" ~ Rumi
"If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs. And maybe your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance. Of how much you really want to do it. And you'll do it, despite rejection in the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods. And the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is." ~ Henry Chinaski (Factotum by Bukowski, Hamer & Stark)
“I exist as I am, that is enough.” ~ Whitman
"Through a small amount of sacrifice we realize great things about ourselves, but through a large amount, we can lose ourselves." ~ Rachel Northrip
"most of art is a graveyard of horrible people and great ideas" ~ James Gyre
"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes." ~ Whitman
"Nothing ever goes as planned, so don't take anything for granted; if you do, the world will kick your ass." ~ Kimya Dawson
"I am 32 flavors and then some" ~ Ani Difranco
"It makes instinctual sense to want to run from pain, but sometimes, like in childbirth, what might lie in wait on the other side of the pain is worth wading through it." ~ Michele James-Parham (me)
"I’m from a working-class background (that means I grew up with a great work ethic and without a college fund)." ~ Maribeth Hamel
"I can't see through the bushes while I'm laughing." ~ Raven Gyre"
