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In blogging, friends, letters, personal, quote on 2 November 2008 with 58 comments

It’s strange reading your blog lately – you seem to be in such a different world, such a different state of mind than me. It’s kind of a nostalgic, vacationing vibe, like there’s infinite time to think about that tiny leaf on the end of a fern frond – no, not the littlest one at [...]

futreme.org

In letters, personal on 21 October 2008 with 54 comments

I’m kind of in love with the concept of FutureMe.org, an internet time capsule of sorts where you send a letter to yourself at a pre-decided time in the future, the clock automatically set to one year. I read through a bunch of the letters on the site, some ranging from one liners like “I’m [...]

More Bolano

In books, letters, quote on 9 June 2008 with 8 comments

Still wading through The Savage Detectives tonight.  My favorite part of reading is coming a passage that you love so wholly it becomes impossible not to want to share it with everyone:
And then comes the funny part…they just stood there and asked me whether I wrote love letters. Everything, boys, I told them, setting the [...]

Dear James, I could kiss you

In Paris, letters on 3 April 2008 with 7 comments

Dear James who mans the front desk at the St. Christopher Hostel from time to time.

Giving me a room that I can stay in without checking out every morning and rechecking into a different room every night, has provided me with a raison d’être. You made me momentarily forget what a suck-fest this [...]

Love Letters: Robert Browning to Elizabeth Browning

In letters on 14 February 2008 with 7 comments

You will only expect a few words, what will those be?
When the heart is full it may run over, but the real fullness stays within.
You asked me yesterday “if I should repent?”
Yes, my own Ba, I could with all the past were to do over again, that in it I might somewhat more, never so [...]

Love Letters: Napoleon to Josephine

In letters on 14 February 2008 with 15 comments

I wake filled with thoughts of you. Your portrait and the intoxicating evening which we spent yesterday have left my senses in turmoil.Sweet incomparable Josephine, what a strange effect you have on my heart!Are you angry?Do I see you looking sad? Are you worried? …My soul aches with sorrow, and there can be no rest [...]

Love Letters: Franz Kafka to Felice Bauer (Excerpt)

In letters on 14 February 2008 with 16 comments

Fräulein Felice!
I am now going to ask you a favor which sounds quite crazy, and which I should regard as such, were I the one to receive the letter. It is also the very greatest test that even the kindest person could be put to. Well, this is it:
Write to me only once a week, [...]

Viva la Difference

In letters, personal on 2 January 2008 with 4 comments

A letter I found from an old friend, who taught me a lot about living and gave me words to live by. Dated September 10, 1999.
“My mother died this summer, and the months leading up to her passing and the months since have been times of great introspection and soul searching. I think you will [...]

Everything We Never Knew (another letter)

In letters, personal on 7 November 2007 with 19 comments

I was thinking of the whole planetarium experience, and how you asked me if seeing all that, the size of the universe, made me feel small. It put me in awe really, it amazed me, but I think it affected you a bit differently than it did me. I’m always feeling the weight of [...]

An Open Letter to a Good Friend

In letters, personal on 1 October 2007 with 16 comments

I wrote this to an old friend late last night and decided to post it.
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I’ve quit my job to pursue something bigger than myself, my destiny if there is such a thing. I’m writing to you as you are one of the many inspirations that moved me to make the decision. You always remind [...]