Rambles with Emily

Law student by day, feminist crayola-wielding blogger by night (or vice versa)

trisarahtoops:

superheronights:

Marriage Proposal of the Day: The planning! The dorkiness! The tears!

I just wept. Gahhhhhh. 

Heartwarming tear-jerker of the day.

howtotalktogirlsatparties:

Kurt Vonnegut’s time working at Sports Illustrated was brief.

(via bradleywarshauer)

getoutoftherecat:

get out of there cat. i don’t have time to file you.

I finished Some Assembly Required this morning, when I unintentionally woke up at 6:30 and didn’t want to wake B. up.  The book continued to be just as delicious all the way to the end.  And now I’m packing and doing laundry and getting ready to leave tomorrow for the summer.

Message to self: Stepback, because then you can pick up stuff that is actually going right […] Maybe what we say to each other is not so important after all, but just that we are alive together, and present for each other as best as we can be.

-Anne Lamott

The single most radical thing I know, which took me only forty-plus years to learn, is that I get to take care of myself.
Anne Lamott, Some Assembly Required

fortuneandglory replied to your photo: My, you look pretty today, New Haven (Taken with…

New Haven is gorgeous.

It really is!  I’d have never known it, from the way people talked about the city before I moved here, but it’s quite charming, especially in the summer with all the blooming flowers and dog-walkers and lack of homework.

No one got the instructions. That is the secret of life. Everyone is flailing around, winging it most of the time, trying to find a way out, or through, or up, without a map. This lack of instruction manual is how must people develop compassion, and how they figure out to show up, care, help and serve, as the only way of filling up and being free.
Anne Lamott, Some Assembly Required

Someday I want a porch with a porch swing (Taken with instagram)

My, you look pretty today, New Haven (Taken with instagram)