June 2013
“I don’t care if people “think they can write”. What’s the difference? If you write, you write. If you write well, you write well. So you never read Moby Dick? Cool, me either, who cares? If writing was based on how much or what we read, or “old school education”, I guess I wouldn’t be a “real” writer. Maybe the Notorious B.I.G. wouldn’t be either. What’s the difference between “acting confident” and actually just being confident? There is none. Same with writing. There’s no need to snob it up.”
—Lesley Arfin (via unicornology)
April 2013
Strawberry
Paul Baribeau
To say that you are cute would be like saying a strawberry is sweet,
Because a strawberry has secret flavors that are sharp, and tart, and red, and deep,
And I would love to find you growing wild out by the woods.
I would make a basket with the front of my t-shirt and take home as many of you as I could.
And to say that you are pretty would be like saying that the ocean is blue,
‘Cause the ocean is full of all kinds of colors,
And I see all kinds of things when I look at you.
And I want to explore you with my tenni shoes off,
Standing ankle deep in a tide pool,
With my khaki pants rolled up,
And to say that you are funny would be like saying that the night sky is black,
‘Cause the night sky is filled with stars and comets and planets that no one has seen yet.
And I want to look at you,
Lying down on my front lawn,
I’ll try to take you all in at once,
But you just go on and on and on.Perfect.
“Beware of what you let enter your heart. There’ll come a day when you’d give anything to remove it.”
—Yasmin Mogahed (via leenyk)
