Kathleen VanBeek

20 Something lover, wanderer, and imagineer.

[bookmania]

I don’t care what you do to me, but I don’t want you to hurt me. I’ve had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via bookmania)

[kathleenvanbeek]

Seattle. I love you.

[bookmania]

As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are, too.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via bookmania)

[kathleenvanbeek]

The best thing I did for me this week: Trail Run.

[bookmania]

But for tonight, just for now, when everything hurts, let me just find someplace to drop.

J.D. Salinger, A Boy in France (via bookmania)

Amen. Tonight.

[kathleenvanbeek]

Love is about justice, not sentimentality. Standing on the side of love is choosing to stand with all those excluded, marginalized, and oppressed – without succumbing to hate for the oppressor. Nothing could be harder – or more essential for our common flourishing.

Serene Jones

[bookmania]

"Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love." — David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility (Photo by Geneviève Bjargardóttir)

[kathleenvanbeek]

Yes. Just yes.

[unconsumption]

Taiwan-based design firm Y Studio has taken old, defunct cameras and reused them as lampshades in a series of upcycled lighting called Reborn.

(via Cameras Reborn as Lighting by Y Studio - Design Milk)

[twloha]

World Suicide Prevention Day packs are available in the TWLOHA Online Store! Get yours here.

[bookmania]

The marks we leave are too often scars.

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via bookmania)

[kathleenvanbeek]

Rhythms matter.

[twloha]

World Suicide Prevention Day is coming up on September 10, and our WSPD pack is now available in the TWLOHA Online Store! Get yours here: store.twloha.com

[kathleenvanbeek]

So important.

[kathleenvanbeek]

She turned away. Donkey.

[tattoolit]

from Roethke’s “I Knew a Woman"

[kathleenvanbeek]

Brilliant.

[bookmania]

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Ernest Hemingway (via bookmania)

[kathleenvanbeek]

Rattlesnake Ledge. We made it up to the middle ledge then turned back. Hopefully East Peak next time!

[kathleenvanbeek]

Big glass of red wine, chocolate pudding, sweats, and Kathleen Norris. Beautiful Monday. #amazinggrace #kathleennorris #goodreads