December 2010
34 posts
I haven’t posted in awhile. Too much fun skating and sledding and baking rum cakes.
Watchbarefeetanddandelions:
i love my school.
“Some people go crazy and some people never do. You never will. Not even when you...”
– Amy Bloom, Silver Water
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Baking With Sylvia
Tomato soup cake à la Sylvia Plath
2 cups sifted cake flour
1 tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
1 cup seedless raisins
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1 can (about 11 fluid ounces) condensed tomato soup
1/2 cup chopped walnuts, optional
Preheat the oven to 375F (190C/gas mark 5). Grease and flour two...
I GOTTA BOUNCE
Taking a train to Virginia today, though I will be back in Vermont by Christmas, and back at Bennington two days after New Years, life still feels slightly punctuation-marked.
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mute prophet
Hollowness greeted him, no grief was left to him. “Who can mourn those who’ve never lived,” It escaped his lips almost a whisper. The knowledge of his powerless sank deep into him. Motionless on his cot until morning without blinking the logger waited. When the morning wissel blew he sat up and put on his corks, only clockwork. A mute prophet.
“It is no answer to say that streams and forests cannot have standing because...”
– Christopher D. Stone
“Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
bridges & birth
To dream that you are crossing a bridge, signifies an important decision or a critical junction in your life. This decision will prove to be a positive change filled with prosperity and wealth in the horizon. Bridges represent a transitional period in your life where you will be moving on to a new stage. If the bridge is over water, then it suggests that your transition will be an emotional one.
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“I like McDonalds, you always know what you’re going to get at a McDonalds....”
– my friend Charlie who may or may not be becoming a priest
