to maybe at least get myself to listen

[rkt]

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitdue will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happpens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.

Louise Erdrich
the painted drum

Comments

reading it

[mystic-toxicity.livejournal.com]

right now... gotta love this woman.

Re: reading it

[rkt.livejournal.com]

everyone really shoul.

i am posting here because my reply option was frozen

[mao-meow.livejournal.com]

I recognise my wronddoings in using the term "retarded" in the feminist forum.... Ive been warned already by another moderator for that same reason, i dont have access to change it, so please take it upon yourself to change it since its such an issue!