Friday, December 27, 2013

"Beautiful things don't ask for attention."


To see things thousands of miles away,
things hidden behind walls and within rooms
things dangerous to come to,
to draw closer,
to see life,
see the world,
that is the purpose of life.

Thursday, December 26, 2013

"just to love, and be loved in return"




Vincent van Gogh supposedly said:

The way to know life is to love many things.

To me, this is easily one of the most beautiful thoughts ever had.

The way to know life is to love many things.
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But it is my guess that he was lonely when he spoke these words.

The way to know life is to love many things?
The way to know life is just to love.

Beantown Brunch #2



Beantown Brunches #2 : Doo Wop Diner 


You know the type. We all have one: that go-to hole-in-the-wall breakfast provider and hangover healer beloved by locals and misunderstood by everyone else. For Bostonians that grew up down the Orange Line anywhere from Wellington to Oak Grove, this place is the Doo Wop Diner on Main Street in Malden. Between its $3.50 breakfast plate and its two-block distance from the city's high school, there's probably not an adolescent in that corner of greater Boston that doesn't know the place. It can't hurt that it's only a block away from the New England Coffee Company either.

 Unless you're from the Everett-Malden-Medford area, Doo Wop's hardly a destination brunchspot, but if you find yourself at that end of the Orange Line, I recommend the Ted Williams with a nice hot mug of Beantown's finest joe (sorry, Dunks). 

Stay far, far away from the oatmeal, though.








Sunday, December 1, 2013


I encourage you, reader, to do as I did 
on this lovely first night of December.

Megan Chance wrote:

"You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. 
To deny is to invite madness. 
To accept is to control."

Take a walk in the place you feel most comfortable 
and face the matters you find most uncomfortable. 
You might just stumble upon some control.