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Tricia is a 1st year law student, a procrastinator, and a travel junkie. She likes surfing the net in class. You can see here some snapshots of her everyday life in Manila and also her photos of random places in the Philippines. You can also jump to her posts of her favorite songs and her favorite quotes.

poetry as tonic, #8


Love Poem With Toast

Some of what we do, we do
to make things happen,
the alarm to wake us up, the coffee to perc,
the car to start.

The rest of what we do, we do
trying to keep something from doing something,
the skin from aging, the hoe from rusting,
the truth from getting out.

With yes and no like the poles of a battery
powering our passage through the days,
we move, as we call it, forward,
wanting to be wanted,
wanting not to lose the rain forest,
wanting the water to boil,
wanting not to have cancer,
wanting to be home by dark,
wanting not to run out of gas,

as each of us wants the other
watching at the end,
as both want not to leave the other alone,
as wanting to love beyond this meat and bone,
we gaze across breakfast and pretend.

- Miller Williams



(interesting side note: Miller Williams is also the father of singer/songwriter Lucinda Williams)

— 1 month ago with 44 notes

Learn to be Quiet

Franz Kafka

You need not do anything.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
You need not even listen, just wait.
You need not even wait,
just learn to be quiet, still and solitary.
And the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked.
It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

— 1 month ago with 70 notes

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever."
Lance Armstrong
— 1 month ago with 350 notes

loveishere:

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What if things go right?

loveishere:

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What if things go right?

— 1 month ago with 85 notes

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#song