[thepoorplan]

...if there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don’t snuff it out, don’t be brutal with it. Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us awake at night, and watching others forget us sooner than we’d want to be forgotten is no better. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new.

A must watch. 

[thepoorplan]

A simple scene.

[thepoorplan]

She tried to learn Spanish for 12 years, achieving the ability to order beer and find a bathroom....  The words of love and respect we could give this woman would fill a library of books. She influenced every person she met in a different and remarkable way. She will be missed deeply.

The best obituary 

[thepoorplan]

🌴🌴🌴 (at San Diego, California)

[thepoorplan]

I’m a talker. I’m a listener. I’m a crier. I’m a wisecracker. How foolish to think any of us would be defined entirely by one part of our identity, whether it’s how we drink, or how we vote, or who we love. A human life is so much richer than that.

http://jezebel.com/ask-a-former-drunk-how-do-i-keep-my-sobriety-from-bein-1781921044

[thepoorplan]

Happiness hides in small things.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/lara-ghaoui/2016/05/the-30-things-i-learned-by-the-age-of-30/

[whiskandwhittle]

[thepoorplan]

at Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area

[thepoorplan]

When you say the music is abominable, listen to the sound of your own complaint.

http://disinfo.com/2015/11/tribute-alan-watts/

[thepoorplan]

Your eyes are the cockpit of a time machine, filmy wet orbs looking in the only direction any of us can ever look: backward.

You are the center of the universe

[thepoorplan]

...people these days are apparently learning who they are by choosing what they can do without.

The Evolution of Simplicity: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/opinion/the-evolution-of-simplicity.html?smid=fb-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&_r=0

[thepoorplan]

[thepoorplan]

Along the way it will beat them up and overwhelm them and punish or exploit what is best and bravest about them; it will make them feel small and lonely and bad about themselves, each and every one, because that is what the grown-up world does to all our little kids when they grow up into it

http://adequateman.deadspin.com/fuck-winning-1724810215

[thepoorplan]

Anxiety is a map where the X is constantly moving.

https://medium.com/@lauraortberg/what-is-it-4690bd454b36

[thepoorplan]

I'm on a strict diet these days of nothing but carbohydrates. It's extremely challenging, but in order to keep my body shitty, I need to stay focused. I'm eating a Hot Pocket literally at this moment.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/instagram-star-fat-jewish-signs-808901

[thepoorplan]

I did it for all the fierce black women on the front lines of the movement and for all the little black girls who are watching us. I did it because I am free.

http://bluenationreview.com/exclusive-bree-newsome-speaks-for-the-first-time-after-courageous-act-of-civil-disobedience/#ixzz3eYTZ4SCa

[thepoorplan]

...what I found was an enchanting woodland full of poetry that reminded me of my youth and a group of people with all the same hopes and fears as any of us have… but perhaps less trivial stresses distracting them from what is important.