February 2012
12 posts
“People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.”
– John Harrigan
“I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on the day you’re feeling...”
– Andrea Gibson, “Asking Too Much” (via vivalacaitlin)
So, yeah. That 24-hr. period where you romanticized the idea of shaking your money-maker, showed up to a Lower East Side audition (to dance for a DJ Company) you found on Craigslist, and promptly realized: THIS IS *UTTERLY* INCONGRUOUS WITH *ALL* THE WORK I’M TRYING TO DO ON MYSELF.
Now, this gig wouldn’t even have required me to take off my clothes. But I just got a very brief,...
Letter from a Haunted Room by Lisa Sewell
Dear K., there’s a mosquito stain between the pages of your book, a streak of platelets beside my index finger. The broken microscopic cells have escaped the hurly-burly of the wide aorta, the stark unholy flow through veins and tubules. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t mistake anatomy for emotion. My heart is meat and gristle, like Artaud’s: a simple pump, it never falters. If I weep it’s for the...
An Exercise That Everyone Should Try...
Last night, in Christina Berkly and Ran Baron’s Valentine’s Day For the Rest of Us Workshop at NYC’s Reflections Yoga, we did several exercises designed to unearth our deeper needs, feelings, expectations, and desires. Let me describe to you one free-association exercise that I think EVERYONE should try [in a safe, intentional space, with your boyfriend/girlfriend/partner, etc.,...
Last Night: Ran Baron's Lecture On Tantra
…He made an interesting point: The first time a couple has sex, the man concentrates 95% of his energy/attention on the woman’s experience. What does she think of me? What is she going to tell her friends? Am I good enough? Is she enjoying this? He focuses only about 5% of his energy on his own pleasure. And guess what: The same goes for the woman. Now, if each party is only 5% present...
“Unless it’s mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it’s a waste of your time....”
– Dream of an Insomniac (via believour)
Excerpt from Willing by Lorrie Moore
“Men could be with whomever they pleased, but women had to date better, kinder, richer, and bright, bright, bright, or else people got embarrassed. It suggested sexual things. ’I’m a very average person,’ she said desperately, somehow detecting that Charlotte already knew that, knew that deep, dark, wildly obvious secret of that…”
