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This amazes me.

One day, one rhyme- Day 1944

I’m creating a pile of words

To catch me when I fall.

They’re growing and they’re spreading out

A quite impressive haul.

Nice soft ones with rounded edges

That are easy to say,

That flow quite gently off the tongue

And sound a pleasant way,

A nice springy hill to halt me

From flailing through the air,

Though I know the fall is coming,

I find that I don’t care.

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Be still my heart

I know that You are God.

Of Dirt and Grace

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My beliefs

My beliefs as an individual:

- [ ] I am not worthy of any form of love

- [ ] I am worthy of loneliness, shame, and humiliation

- [ ] I am worthy of pain

- [ ] I accept defeats and failures because whatever I do, I am and will always be a failure

- [ ] I believe that it is a someone's loss to love me because (just read the very first belief)

- [ ] I am a sinner and will always be a sinner

- [ ] I will never be forgiven

- [ ] I am a piece of nothing

- [ ] I am a fool

- [ ] I am a trash

- [ ] I am selfish

- [ ] I am not in the option list

- [ ] I am weak

- [ ] I don't give my best because I am not the best and I will never be the best and i don't have that "best" to show off to the world

- [ ] I am REALLY a Waste

- [ ] I am a shame

- [ ] I am ugly holistically, honestly. I know myself better that you.

- [ ] I am a liar telling people i have something to show off

- [ ] I hate drama because this is the real me

- [ ] I doubt my faith

- [ ] I want to die in my own hands

- [ ] I want to do it now

- [ ] I am LemonYellowJojo, my presence is such an ACCIDENT in this world.

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Let’s explore Bacolod’s bookstores this summer to look for these treasures! 

10 Books Recommended by President Barack Obama

Last year President Barack Obama shared with WIRED magazine a list of 10 books he highly recommends. These are the books. (Click the links for descriptions.)  - The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln - Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch - The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro - The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin - Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American by Richard S. Tedlow - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari - Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman - In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck - Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo - The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert Have your read any of these? What are you thoughts on this list? 

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"All" By Bei Dao

Poem translated from Chinese by Donald Finkel & Xueliang Chen

All is fated,

all is cloudy,

 all an endless beginning,

all a search for what vanishes,

 all joys grave,

all griefs tearless,

 every speech a repetition,

every meeting a first encounter,

 all love buried in the heart,

all history prisoned in a dream,

 all hope hedged with doubt,

all faith drowned in lamentation.

 Every explosion heralds an instant of stillness,

every death reverberates forever.

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What does this poem mean?

Simply,  The repetition of "all" supports the idea that what we experience in our lives is unavoidable, and is simply a normal everyday event; In addition,   despite the tragic and depressing events experienced in our reality, their is still some sort of positive result or outcome.

#hugotteacher

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Hoping that i will be one of the winners 😊

Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away ten vintage paperback classics by Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Kate Chopin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ray Bradbury, and others. Won’t these look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will randomly choose a winner on March 5, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

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So awesome to be here on tumblr. I follow those who love posting literary pieces :)