December 2008
2 posts
Good Intentions
Just ain’t worth what they used to be.
My good marked as bad by you.
But I’m still good to me.
-QD, 12.11.08
2 tags
For seekers of Peace of Mind →
Soul to Squeeze. To be listened to while reading the lyrics, of course: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/r/red+hot+chili+peppers/soul+to+squeeze_20114837.html
November 2008
1 post
Pray for Rain
“There are so many clouds in the air
I can’t imagine it not raining.
Once it starts raining the harvest comes in.
Pray for rain.”
October 2008
2 posts
Divorce
is filthy rubbish. but sometimes pretty things spring up from the rot. some blood thins with separation. and sometimes blood ties get stronger.
there’s a lot of strength in my family, in my friends.
we get by.
August 2008
1 post
My body is missing its other half.
I met a girl last night who loves to dance as unashamedly as me - if not more so.
It’s been too long since I danced in a focused way. This, after 15 years of ballet, pointe and more.
My first language was Choreography. It came so easily. Now my feet and brain don’t talk the way they used to. This is probably how I will feel the effects of aging, starting today: not being able to move...
July 2008
4 posts
I want to live on the Med.
Bono
I love you man.
i am always
learning.
even if i hate it.
May 2008
4 posts
“You do not have a soul. You ARE a soul. You have a body.”
– C.S. Lewis via Anne Lamott
rain
still
i believe after all that we’ve been (all you’ve put me) through i belive in my heart i still believe in you. - Qui Diaz (me, probably written in the late ’90s)
April 2008
22 posts
i think God sings to us.
Piece of Peace
After two years of silence, I extended an olive branch last night via voicemail. “Congratulations,” I said. “I wish you all the happiness in the world.” The reply text message said my words were a blessing, that God is a miracle-worker, that I am invited to the wedding. Things might not be restored to their original state of grace. Still, there is enough beauty in this...
“We were made to be lovers bold in broken places, pouring ourselves out again and...”
– To Write Love on Her Arms
“Life is at work in you.”
– Open | Nooma
“The place where God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the...”
– Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking
Reverse Commuting
On the George Washington Parkway, in the Spring, against traffic.
“Remember Everything. And time remembered is grief forgotten. Blossom by blossom...”
– Algernon Charles Swineburn
My love language
is Quality Time. And I hade a focused, friend-filled weekend: Laura @ Spezie with Kristen, Alison and Kaitlyn Linedancing with Donna (and the horrific match.com date stories) Brunch with Alison - too many mimosas Spa-time with myself 7.5 hours with Minjae (dinner, white Lambrusco, house party, Across the Universe) Jog & Dupont market with myself Auntie time with Samiyah and Adeela Cooking:...
Aware
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. - henry miller
“It’s a disappointment. We have them. All of us have them.
You use it....”
– Al Pacino, Devil’s Advocate
“A charity wants to teach a man to fish.
An entrepreneur wants to...”
– something, courtesy of @rmoede
sun showers.
“Everyone needs beauty as well as bread.”
– John Muir (via Nest)
Sleep.
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“You can’t rely on one person to make you happy. That’s just too big...”
– Me
“Tell me - what is it you want to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
The cruelist month.
“April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too much, the world burgeons with promises it can’t keep, all passion is really a set up, and we’re doomed to get our hearts broken yet again. I agree, and would further add: Who cares? Every spring I go there anyway, around the bend,...
“I arise each morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to...”
– e.b. white