Steve Mccurry, Katrina Vandenberg, the Extra & the Ordinary

It's strange how much we actually depend on living in the present.

It's harder not to...


"You want a big piece / of this world. You would love to have the whole thing."

~Katrina Vandenberg


Somethings just get to me, and others so significant I want to ignore...
I like the way my thoughts never connect.

"No one laughs at God at a hospital, no one laughs at God in a war."
~Regina Spektor

How do we get used to things so quickly? or rather why?
It's an disadventage sometimes.

Rain makes me happy, because it gives me a better reason to go outside.

Why doesn't time stop? Maybe it does, maybe we don't know anything at all.

Why do we trust ourselves?

The women of an African tribe make themselves more attractive by permanently scaring their faces.

George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.

In 1726, at only 7 years old, Charles Sauson inherited the post of official executioner.

It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.

The Toltecs, Seventh-century native Mexicans, went into battle with wooden swords so as not to kill their enemies.

and I wonder why I like the world the way it is.


"but aren’t you sorry you will never see / a tulip that would make you offer all / you own for the layered, translucent promise // in its brown paper wrapper?
~Katrina Vandenberg