March 23, 2012

airports

There is something I find grossly satisfying about the rough plodding of strangers in the airport, in the communally isolated and disinterested stance of the fleeing faces our minds pass over. There is exhilaration in the possibility of a million blank slates, a gratifying knowledge that the minimal bits of words shared between persons, and the meaningless moments of eye contact that grudgingly occur despite our un-verbalized, agreed-upon avoidance, are the single-most interactions that are ever planned to occur. Yet, in the gloriously impersonal, numb-minded and inconsequential exchanges made in a mere matter of seconds, we have tied the eternal string of acquaintanceship to one more person’s soul. There is a deep camaraderie in the stark and silent ecosystem of a plane, in the waiting area filled with people bent over their own, unique, and selfish concerns… In the distinctly unmemorable smile or thank you from our nameless companions, in the random jumble of strangers stuck together in a mere means to an end, the world has been touched with one more spark of love as a single and cohesive humanity, that drifts in the air above unknowing, apathetic heads…

December 18, 2011
Encounters Professor: Do you guys think you're optimists or pessimists?
Class: ...
Encounters Professor: Well, I think the fact that you're all sitting here shows that you're optimists. The idea that you're sitting in a class in Walla Walla instead of laying on the beach in California smoking weed and getting laid means that you think there's something more important in life. You think there's something that matters.
December 18, 2011 • 2 notes

Drawing Autism

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November 24, 2011

thisss is sick.

November 21, 2011

"Love"

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November 21, 2011 • 1 note
November 21, 2011 • 7 notes • peoplenevernoticeanything

NKSN:: Life Story

Life Story

After you’ve been to bed together for the first time,

without the advantage or disadvantage of any prior aquaintance,

the other party very often says to you,

tell me about yourself, I want to know all about you,

what’s your story? And you think maybe they really and truly do

sincerely want to know your life story, and so you light up

a cigarette and begin to tell it to them, the two of you

lying together in completely relaxed positions

like a pair of rag dolls a bored child dropped on a bed.

You tell them your story, or as much of your story

as time or a fair degree of prudence allows, and they say,

     Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

each time a little more faintly, until the oh

is just an audible breath, and then of course

there’s some interruption. Slow room service comes up

with a bowl of melting ice cubes, or one of you rises to pee

and gaze at himself with mild astonishment in the bathroom mirror.

And then, the first thing you know, before you’ve had time

to pick up where you left off with your enthralling life story,

they’re telling you their life story, exactly as they’d intended to all

     along,

and you’re saying, Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

each time a little more fainlty, the vowel at last becoming

no more than an audible sigh,

as the elevator, halfway down the corridor and a turn to the left,

draws one last, long, deep breath of exhaustion

and stops breathing forever. Then?

Well, one of you falls asleep

and the other one does likewise with a lighted cigarette in his mouth,

and that’s how people burn to death in hotel rooms.

—Tennesee Williams

August 9, 2011
‎”Happiness doesn’t exist on the far side of distant mountains. It is within you, yourself. Not you, however, sitting in idle passivity. It is to be found in the vibrant dynamism of your own life as you struggle to challenge and overcome one obstacle after another, as you clamber up a perilous ridge in pursuit of that which lies beyond.
August 2, 2011 • 8tracks.com
August 2, 2011 • SoundCloud / Szabom
Chad Valley - Shell Suite
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