The woods are lovely dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep
— Robert Frost
Goodbye, Nashville. It’s been marvelous.
Try to imagine a life without timekeeping.
You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays.
Man alone measures time.
Man alone chimes the hour.
And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures.
A fear of time running out.
— The Time Keeper
Keep It Kind: Making it Happen One Rainy Day Note at a Time
Leo Buscaglia once said, “too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” When I posted a video over a month ago asking people to write a rainy day…
The most amazing email…
So, I moved to LA almost 9 years ago and signed with my very first manager, Molly, at 13 yrs old. Along the years she’s become a close family friend and personal mentor. Molly is now semi-retired and lives, literally, in the middle-of-nowhere Montana. She’ll occasionally keep me updated on her life in the wild (which is especially funny coming from her considering she was a full blown city girl that lived on coffee and cigarettes and went to the tanning salon everyday during her lunch breaks… and I am in no way exaggerating the frequency of her tanning salon visitations), but I thought that the email she just sent me tonight was most share worthy. Hope you get a kick out of it as well. :)
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Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 7:51 PM
Subject: Tonight
“I knew we’d get in trouble. We knew people would be worried, but we did it anyway. But something also happened, when we first met. Something that we didn’t do on purpose. Something happened, to us.” - Sam Shakusky
Moonrise Kingdom.
(Source: ohlivyuhuxtable)
Society’s standards. Lets change it, shall we?
I have read of those sent to the gallows and guillotines of Europe. I have read of the great wars of ages past, and men slaughtered by the tens of thousands. And we give but fleeting consideration to their deaths, for it is our nature to banish such thoughts. But in doing so we forget that they were each as alive as we, and that one length of rope— one bullet or blade— took the whole of their lives in that last, fragile instant. Took their earliest days as swaddled infants, and their grayest unfulfilled futures.
— excerpt from Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
