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.
Sans Merci by Johnna Adams
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.

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
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.
“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.”
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.
<3So 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
zomg. I need a wife like this. *ugly sobbing*
(via eversoawkward)
Day 14: Details in the Fabric- Jason Mraz
Last song for the last day.
This song is the anthem of my life.



