Posts tagged: live

Because making a home out of all the places I’ve lived has been simultaneously exhilarating and exhausting. Some days I delight in the fact that my soul is deposited in several pockets of the world. Other days it makes me feel empty. I wonder if I’ll ever be able to retrieve those parts of myself, or if they were meant to stay there, unbeknownst to all those who come after me.
Does anybody know where this is in Valpo?? I really want to buy one of those “Apaga la tele/Vive tu vida” things but I haven’t been able to find them anywhere!
Alguien sabe donde puedo encontrar esa en Valpo?? Quiero comprar una de esas cosas que dice ”Apaga la tele/Vive tu vida” pero no lo puedo encontrar en ningun parte! 

Does anybody know where this is in Valpo?? I really want to buy one of those “Apaga la tele/Vive tu vida” things but I haven’t been able to find them anywhere!

Alguien sabe donde puedo encontrar esa en Valpo?? Quiero comprar una de esas cosas que dice ”Apaga la tele/Vive tu vida” pero no lo puedo encontrar en ningun parte! 


from The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich

“Let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness.  Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”

from The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich

“Let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness.  Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
Carlos Fuentes
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights