February 2012
The Darker Sooner
BY CATHERINE WING
Then came the darker sooner,
came the later lower.
We were no longer a sweeter-here
happily-ever-after. We were after ever.
We were farther and further.
More was the word we used for harder.
Lost was our standard-bearer.
Our gods were fallen faster,
and fallen larger.
The day was duller,
duller was disaster.
Our charge was error.
Instead of leader we had...
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Washington State Passes Same-Sex Marriage Bill →
Washington on Wednesday became the seventh state to legalize same-sex marriage, with the State House giving final passage to the bill and Gov. Christine Gregoire having promised to sign it.
Forget
tylerknott:
Why do we forget that the snow was born to melt and the leaves were born to fall and the sun was born to set? Why do we forget that the snow was born to dance and the leaves were born to float and the sun was born to rise? -Tyler Knott Gregson-
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January 2012
‘Drama’ also implies something not to be taken seriously, to be risen above,...
– Tyler Clementi’s Suicide and Dharun Ravi’s Trial : The New Yorker (via interweber)
strangertongues:
Now the whole wide world is moving, ‘Cause there’s iron in my heart And I just can’t keep from cryin’ ‘Cause you say we’ve got to part Sorrow grips my voice As I stand here all alone And watch you slowly take away A love I’ve never known I was born without you baby, But my feelings were a little bit too strong Just a little bit too strong