tylerknott:

Typewriter Series #411 by Tyler Knott Gregson
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY to every single one of you amazing mothers.  And to the one’s in my life, thank you, so very much, for showing me the nature of love.  I learn more of it by watching you than I could ever express in my silly words.
Text for Tired Eyes:
This is an ode to all of those that have never asked for one. A thank you in words to all of those that do not do what they do so well for the thanking. This is to the mothers. This is to the ones who match our first scream with their loudest scream; who harmonize in our shared pain and joy and terrified wonder when life begins. This is to the mothers. To the ones who stay up late and wake up early and always know the distance between their soft humming song and our tired ears. To the lips that find their way to our foreheads and know, somehow always know, if too much heat is living in our skin. To the hands that spread the jam on the bread and the mesmerizing patient removal of the crust we just cannot stomach. This is to the mothers. To the ones who shout the loudest and fight the hardest and sacrifice the most to keep the smiles glued to our faces and the magic spinning through our days.  To the pride they have for us that cannot fit inside after all they have endured. To the leaking of it out their eyes and onto the backs of their hands, to the trails of makeup left behind as they smile through those tears and somehow always manage a laugh. This is to the patience and perseverance and unyielding promise that at any moment they would give up their lives to protect ours.  This is to the mothers. To the single mom’s working four jobs to put the cheese in the mac and the apple back into the juice so their children, like birds in a nest, can find food in their mouths and pillows under their heads. To the dreams put on hold and the complete and total rearrangement of all priority.  This is to the stay-at-home moms and those that find the energy to go to work every day; to the widows and the happily married. To the young mothers and those that deal with the unexpected announcement of a new arrival far later than they ever anticipated. This is to the mothers. This is to the sack lunches and sleepover parties, to the soccer games and oranges slices at halftime.  This is to the hot chocolate after snowy walks and the arguing with the umpire at the little league game. To the frosting ofbirthday cakes and the candles that are always lit on time; to the Easter egg hunts, the slip-n-slides and the iced tea on summer days.  This is to the ones that show us the way to finding our own way. To the cutting of the cord, quite literally the first time and even more painfully and metaphorically the second time around. To the mothers who become grandmothers and great-grandmothers and if time is gentle enough, live to see the children of their children have children of their own.  To the love. My goodness to the love that never stops and comes from somewhere only mothers have seen and know the secret location of. To the love that grows stronger as their hands grow weaker and the spread of jam becomes slower and the Easter eggs get easier to find and sack lunches no longer need making. This is to the way the tears look falling from the smile lines around their eyes and the mascara that just might always be smeared with the remains of their pride for all they have created. This is to the mothers.

tylerknott:

Typewriter Series #411 by Tyler Knott Gregson

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY to every single one of you amazing mothers.  And to the one’s in my life, thank you, so very much, for showing me the nature of love.  I learn more of it by watching you than I could ever express in my silly words.

Text for Tired Eyes:

This is an ode to all of those that have never asked for one.
A thank you in words to all of those that do not do
what they do so well for the thanking.
This is to the mothers.
This is to the ones who match our first scream
with their loudest scream; who harmonize in our shared pain
and joy and terrified wonder when life begins.
This is to the mothers.
To the ones who stay up late and wake up early and always know
the distance between their soft humming song and our tired ears.
To the lips that find their way to our foreheads and know,
somehow always know, if too much heat is living in our skin.
To the hands that spread the jam on the bread and the mesmerizing
patient removal of the crust we just cannot stomach.
This is to the mothers.
To the ones who shout the loudest and fight the hardest and sacrifice
the most to keep the smiles glued to our faces and the magic
spinning through our days.  To the pride they have for us
that cannot fit inside after all they have endured.
To the leaking of it out their eyes and onto the backs of their
hands, to the trails of makeup left behind as they smile
through those tears and somehow always manage a laugh.
This is to the patience and perseverance and unyielding promise
that at any moment they would give up their lives to protect ours.
This is to the mothers.
To the single mom’s working four jobs to put the cheese in the mac
and the apple back into the juice so their children, like birds in
a nest, can find food in their mouths and pillows under their heads.
To the dreams put on hold and the complete and total rearrangement
of all priority.  This is to the stay-at-home moms and those that
find the energy to go to work every day; to the widows and the
happily married.
To the young mothers and those that deal with the unexpected
announcement of a new arrival far later than they ever anticipated.
This is to the mothers.
This is to the sack lunches and sleepover parties, to the soccer games
and oranges slices at halftime.  This is to the hot chocolate
after snowy walks and the arguing with the umpire
at the little league game. To the frosting ofbirthday cakes
and the candles that are always lit on time; to the Easter egg hunts,
the slip-n-slides and the iced tea on summer days.
This is to the ones that show us the way to finding our own way.
To the cutting of the cord, quite literally the first time
and even more painfully and metaphorically the second time around.
To the mothers who become grandmothers and great-grandmothers
and if time is gentle enough, live to see the children of their children
have children of their own.  To the love.
My goodness to the love that never stops and comes from somewhere
only mothers have seen and know the secret location of.
To the love that grows stronger as their hands grow weaker
and the spread of jam becomes slower and the Easter eggs get easier
to find and sack lunches no longer need making.
This is to the way the tears look falling from the smile lines
around their eyes and the mascara that just might always be
smeared with the remains of their pride for all they have created.
This is to the mothers.

But you came after me, and we talked. And I just borrowed your strength. I just reached out and borrowed it. Sans Merci by Johnna Adams
When I was in grad school, I read a great deal of literary criticism. And I read something in a book by Gaston Bachelard that I have never forgotten. It was a book on poetic reverie, and in the first chapter he gave his definition of love. “Love is the intersection,” he said, “of two poetries.” Two people are stumbling around in the world. And each exists in his or her own personal bubble of poetic pain and lyrical dreams. And then one day the two people collide and share some of their interior madness with one another. And if the poetries overlap, if they build and resonate together, if they cradle and reinforce one another, we call it love… . But our personal poetry is mad. Look at the poetry you and I are filled with. It’s the stuff of nightmares. And it’s all like that. Inside every human, there’s a locked cabinet of vicious demons. And they decide who we love. The demons.

Sans Merci by Johnna Adams

Album Art

stuffaboutminneapolis:

Love Is The Law - The New Standards

Today the Minnesota House will vote on whether gay couples can get married in Minnesota. If it passes, the Senate is scheduled to vote on the bill on Monday, and Gov. Mark Dayton says he will sign the bill, which would allow weddings between same-sex couples starting on Aug. 1.

Chan Poling of legendary Minneapolis band The Suburbs, proposed that the group’s 1983 hit, “Love Is The Law” become the unofficial theme song for the movement to legalize gay marriage in Minnesota.

Here is a jazz infused cover of Love Is The Law, by Chan’s current group, The New Standards.

Let’s make love the law, you guys.

ArtistThe New Standards
TitleLove Is The Law
AlbumThe New Standards
When one of my friends in the US is online and I am online and even though its only 8am there but ohmygoshmaybewecanskype?!?!?!?

When one of my friends in the US is online and I am online and even though its only 8am there but ohmygoshmaybewecanskype?!?!?!?

Dear Lydia

erinwert:

My dear Lydia,

I hate that I’m having to write you a letter instead of having this conversation face to face. I want nothing more than to be able to rush to your side and laugh and cry and hug and just be there with you and for you. But unfortunately circumstances are such that I can’t be there with you, so this letter will have to serve in my absence.

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“You opened yourself up and you let yourself love someone, and let someone love you, all of you, even the parts of you you were scared to show anyone. That is not wrong. That is brave. That is amazing. That is the scariest thing that we can do as humans, and you did that. It’s beautiful and wonderful and I am so so proud of you.”

Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It’s like the tide going out, revealing whatever’s been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. The ruin you’ve made. — Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

Listen, I have a hard time.
I cry as often as most people pee.

And I don’t shut the door behind me.

Farewell tumblr.  See you on or after Easter.

Any Tumblypoos who aren’t very good at keeping in touch, you shall have to try a bit harder. I am in need of some serious growth and healing, and I spend too much time on tumblr trying to numb myself.


<3

So steal my heart and take the pain 
Wash the feet and cleanse my pride 
Take the selfish, take the weak 
And all the things I cannot hide 
Take the beauty, take my tears 
The sin-soaked heart and make it yours 
Take my world all apart 

afterellen:

We get it, Ellen. You’re the best wife ever!

zomg. I need a wife like this. *ugly sobbing*

sergidelgado:

love = &lt;3

sergidelgado:

love = <3

(via urhajos)

Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don’t blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being “in love”, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. — Louis de Bernières
barackobama:

(via)

With the little batman button!!!

barackobama:

(via)

With the little batman button!!!

Day 14: Details in the Fabric- Jason Mraz

Last song for the last day.
This song is the anthem of my life.

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