Hazrat Inayat Khan:

It is better to have a thousand known enemies before one than to have one within one and not to know it.

Today's Ani Difranco lyrics are inspired in part by tonight's discussion on DLC:

....from Napolean (Dilate).

they told you your music could reach millions
the choice was up to you
you told me they always pay for lunch
and they believe in what i do
and i wonder if you'll miss your old friends
once you've proven what you're worth
and i wonder when you're a ( Read more... )

R. and I ate at teany - Moby's cafe - the other day. We had the (vegan) chicken salad, described as "the best in the world." The menu also awards "the best in the world" status to their BLT. They seem very into the "best in the world" title at teany ( Read more... )

Today my grandmother told me that all she wants for me is for me to love myself.

_____________
i always wanted to be
commander in chief
of my one woman army

- Ani Difranco from "not so soft"

I have no idea how he falls on the issues important to me and he may have a voting record with which I disagree 100%, but today Senator Voinovich of Ohio is my hero for breaking from party ranks because his "conscience got to [him]," thus delaying the Senate Foreign Relations Committee vote on John Bolton ( Read more... )

Posting the lyrics to "more than a million" the other day reminded me of how often I listened to Ani Difranco in college. So many of her songs seemed applicable to my life at the time and I'd play her CDs for hours absorbing the lyrics that "spoke to me." Oh, 19 year old morethanimagine...I can only shake my head at your dramatics ( Read more... )

While I can detail my quarter-life crises for pages and hours on end, in real life I'm just as likely to focus on finding a pair of socks that resemble ones about which I've dreamed the night before than on a passage by Rilke. So today, my audience of maybe 3, I decided to share with you two of my very important, very superficial, quests. Welcome ( Read more... )

From The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge ~ Rainier Maria Rilke

You felt how your heart intensified unceasingly toward an immense reality and, frightened, you tried once more to take people's gaze off you like long gossamer threads....

Invisibility is an unnatural disaster ~ Mitsuye Yamada

It's starting again. The scrutiny, the demands, the ( Read more... )

taken from "million you never made" ~ ani difranco ( Read more... )

Countdown from three. Yesterday I saw A. for the third last time in this city.

Countdown from two. R. leaves in two weeks.

One. Of my close friends only F. remains here.

All the moving from state to state, country to country had I thought prepared me for leave-takings. But this other side...it isn't sadder, but right now feels lonelier. I hated ( Read more... )