July 7, 2012
Stranger Suggests Issue
You can't ever say, "There's nothing to do in this city".
Tiny Beautiful Things
By Cheryl Strayed
The same woman that wrote "Wild" penned this collection of her advice column.
She wrote "Dear Sugar" for The Rumpus.
Here's a sample:
You can't ever say, "There's nothing to do in this city".
Tiny Beautiful Things
By Cheryl Strayed
The same woman that wrote "Wild" penned this collection of her advice column.
She wrote "Dear Sugar" for The Rumpus.
Here's a sample:
Don’t lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don’t have a career. You have a life. Do the work. Keep the faith. Be true blue. You are a writer because you write. Keep writing and quit your bitching. Your book has a birthday. You don’t know what it is yet.
You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.
Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.
One hot afternoon during the era in which you’ve gotten yourself ridiculously tangled up with heroin you will be riding the bus and thinking what a worthless piece of crap you are when a little girl will get on the bus holding the strings of two purple balloons. She’ll offer you one of the balloons, but you won’t take it because you believe you no longer have a right to such tiny beautiful things. You’re wrong. You do.
Today's Photos:
Enjoying Beerfest
I walked through the heart of the city down to the Sounders game.
I love Seattle.
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