It is not the mountains we conquer, but ourselves.

preserved.

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:16:00 -0400

Sealed in a mason jar,
formaldehyde holds my heart.
“you’ve got no one to love
so you don’t need this part.”
That’s the only thing they said
when they left me out for dead.

I had a heart, and it had a beat.
I had a beat, and I kept it pretty well.

But without a reason, it won’t do what it’s suppose to do.
I just need you here to encourage it through.
Cause I can’t do it alone,
with you scrambling opposite of home.

When you get far enough,
turn back and tell me what you find,
You’re running toward the unknown,
knowing you got better on your mind.

I served you well, I wanted your best!
“but there’s better out there” you certainly attest.
Least it’s stored well,
so you can revive it back,
when you realize everything out yonder
eventually begins to attack.

They don’t want your best,
they don’t want your style,
all they will take is your dress and your smile.
So wherever you sleep,
keep home on your mind.
cause this formaldehyde heart has been preserved for you to find.

Video

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 23:00:08 -0400

a trespasser

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:51:00 -0400

I’m empty, got a crack
that cannot be filled
from the direction I run.
I sit here and know you must pour me to full,
but there’s always distance between reality and my mind.
I stumble toward the water trough, thirsty
but am not fulfilled.
I was parched as I went, parched as I came.
These dry bones amble on.
I will accept none as a substitute,
yet cannot rest in reliance.

They set me on fire.
I’m burning
past the point where I need putting out;
i’m racking up the lessons.
There may be nothing valuable to salvage
if you don’t arrive in another instant.

I am bland, tasteless, as my tongue tastes no longer.
I was suppose to be the salt,
I was suppose to be the light,
but I am weak and dim.

This was not about the battalion,
but the warfare waged in my own spirit.
I heard squeals from the anguish on the inside,
but was unable to diagnose this dense pride.
You have pried opened my eyes,
as my own blood drips from my hands;
I need saving from myself.

You stripped me naked and brought on this valley,
for only you knew I would discover life !
Please expel breath into this creation
for our shallow lungs reveal all the wear.
Yet the extent of our pains
parallel the capabilities of our joy.
I fervently recognize you are everything forever claimed I am.
I will accept all you take away.
Open these doors to whatever makes me love you more,
because the others in which I eagerly knock whisper only of death.

My grave was this life,
yet you vindicate the broken.
You gift anew as if we held innocence.
Why did it take me so long to ask
for what you already promised you’d give ?

//ordered

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:56:43 -0400

//ordered

Take the road we take, then we improvise. Let’s let a...

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:02:00 -0400

Take the road we take, then we improvise. Let’s let a garden grow around us.

“I have an existential map. It has ‘You are...

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:51:00 -0400

“I have an existential map. It has ‘You are here’ written all over it.”

Steven Wright

“Tempted and tried, I wondered why the good man died, the...

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:02:00 -0400

“Tempted and tried, I wondered why
the good man died, the bad man thrives,
and Jesus cries because he loves ‘em both.
We’re all cast-aways in need of rope,
hangin’ on by the last threads of our hope.”

So much more to life than we’ve been told.
It’s full of beauty that will unfold
and shine like you struck gold, my wayward son,
that deadweight burden weighs a ton
go down into the river and let it run
wash away all the things you’ve done
forgiveness alright.”

“For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive...

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:21:00 -0400

“For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.”

William Wordsworth

always wondered about this one; now I can put it into practice.

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:25:00 -0400

always wondered about this one; now I can put it into practice.

“Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear...

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 01:05:00 -0400

“Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”

John Muir

“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought,...

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:02:43 -0400

“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.”

John Muir

whattup Mediterraneans.

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 22:17:02 -0400

whattup Mediterraneans.

“a feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and...

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:04:00 -0400

“a feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
Gloria Steinem

“A man is rich in proportion to what he can do...

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:52:00 -0400

“
A man is rich in proportion to what he can do without.
”
John Muir

“ I’d rather be working for a paycheck, then waiting...

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:58:12 -0400

“
I’d rather be working for a paycheck,
then waiting to win the lottery.
“

“do you realize, that happiness makes you cry? do you...

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:05:00 -0400

“do you realize, that happiness makes you cry?
do you realize, that everyone you know someday will die?

and instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know
you realize that life goes fast
it’s hard to make the good things last
you realize the sun doesn’t go down
It’s just an illusion caused by the world spinning round”

Photo

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 14:47:01 -0400

"I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to..."

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 14:41:39 -0400

““I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.”

- Neil Gaiman (via atomos)

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/hil0bio-1 what a man; a...

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 07:38:00 -0400

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/hil0bio-1

what a man; a man with manageability.

Photo

Sun, 07 Aug 2011 16:56:59 -0400