— human is? —

[zero]

girlchild on a beach sifting wood and dried weed from the sand and puzzled by the pattern on a shell

[brightpearl]

fingerprints on the cover of a book

[MoJoRiSin]

Being human is figuring out the 'queen of clubs' is not Wilma ;)

[trisherina]

A teen boy and girl kissing and laughing and spinning each other around in the water, droplets flying from their hairtips, seeing nothing but one another.

[seebe]

feeling guilt for anything

[lukkucairi]

wearing shiny spots on the most-used letters on your keyboard

[trisherina]

altering our brain chemistry through ingestion of toxins

[Stephi_B]

doing the wrong thing for the right reason

[lukkucairi]

procrastinating on a monday morning

[zero]

the members of the audience cannot help themselves. the spectacle of the firemen racing the solo climber up the skyscraper causes them to spontaneously begin clapping in unison.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

not knowing

[lukkucairi]

being in pain, not being able to fix the pain, and deciding not to be in a bad mood after all.

[trisherina]

Going swimming at a big fancy pool and spending hours clinging to the side and chatting with your friend until they shut it down and kick you out.

[Stephi_B]

laughing

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

er(r)...

[Bman]

as human does

[lukkucairi]

the old man letting go of life and slipping away as his wife of 40 years sits by the hospital bed holding his hand

[MoJoRiSin]

h uman is.... loving this movie:


movie: the Diving Bell and the Butterfly
It is WAY better than anyone would imagine given its

subject matter

[zero]

an airborne handful of copper coins tossed from the window of a rolls royce silver shadow, idling on the deserted marine drive, early on a warm july morning in brighton.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

reading the same book over and over again for the sheer delight of enjoying well-stringed words

[lukkucairi]

skipping stones

[seebe]

suddenly wondering how you made it to there without having an accident because you were daydreaming.

[T.I.P.]

lowering metal canisters into the abyss to record the heartbeat of the earth

[Coffee]

fvcking up and getting defensive about it

[brightpearl]

^good one, Coffee

---------------

hurting oneself by going to great lengths to avoid pain

[treekisser]

human is blaming every other driver on the road for a traffic jam you find yourself enmeshed in

[trisherina]

She keeps her crepey eyes shut tight and refuses to open them because nothing is familiar out there anymore.

[zero]

a woman at the TESCO checkout, her shopping trolley filled with plastic 2-litre bottles of WHITE LIGHTNING EXTRA STRONG cider, as she smilingly shows me the rusty blade of the lock-knife in her handbag and tells me under her sickly-sweet breath that she's ready to use it to stab the man in front of her in the queue.

[lukkucairi]

praying to God, but rowing for shore

[Brynn]

a wise old woman nodding sympathetically to a younger one, who is fighting back tears.

[MoJoRiSin]

wanting your children to have better parents than you had.

[lukkucairi]

anchovy cravings

[monkeyknifightz]

Spending every moment conscious and unconscious thinking about your lover.

[lukkucairi]

accepting that your crush is self-destructive and learning how not to obsess about someone.

[zero]

stale afternoon. your neighbour stands in her yard and watches the sky: her children are gone; her husband lost at sea; how she remembers them now is by fragments of beachglass, pearls and seashells in a vase that she protects with saran wrap.

[MoJoRiSin]

Taking up meditation with the idea "there must be more to life than this".

[lukkucairi]

the feeling you get after you taste the capsaicin, but before the heat hits your tongue.

[trisherina]

she sees only pretty in the soft mirror, free as yet of the harsh glare of others' judgments of how she looks

[Hyakujo's Fox]

the fascination in destruction

[Bman]

"Fish got to swim, birds got to fly, man got to ask himself why why why"

[monkeyknifightz]

Staring into your lover's eyes thinking nothing else in life matters.

[Brynn]

lying on a wooden deck in the woods staring up - dazzled at the closeness of the stars and reluctant to go in where it's warm and dry.

[lukkucairi]

lying on a concrete slab still warm from the sun, watching the stars come out one by one (and the occasional jet going over at ~500 feet to land at the runway ~1/4 mile away).

[T.I.P.]

In his quest to be completely honest with himself, he stripped away layer after layer of fabrication. He was left with a wifebeater woven from his oldest lies, and he wore it with style.

[MoJoRiSin]

this:"Starting January 1st all bars bowling alleys and bingo halls in Oregon. must comply with the smoking ban"

[monkeyknifightz]

human is not knowing

[lukkucairi]

human is -- pretending to know

[brightpearl]

human is saying "yes" or "no"

[MoJoRiSin]

[NUL] or is this more correct =>[nil]
which is it? I have not taken math(s?)
for quite some time.

apostrophe s

ps is nun even a real word?

[MoJoRiSin]

human is: someone's football jersey has two zero's on it.
(there is one in every crowd)

[treekisser]

Needing to know what is in the nicely wrapped package.

[seebe]

He knows he can drive fast without worry even when he has no place to go in a hurry, because most of his fellow cops do it too.

[clubsamwich]

Overeating to clear the plate

[clubsamwich]

Getting excited over crossword puzzles.

[monkeyknifightz]

not knowing the future and it excites you and scares you shitless at the same time.

[lukkucairi]

she's proud of her pepper plant.

she grew it from seed, and it's four years old.

[MoJoRiSin]

human is: loosing your cool when you children are whining.

[trisherina]

try to want remembering at least as often as forgetting

[trisherina]

She says they stay together because of all the love, though mostly it is fear.

[zero]

a young woman in multiple pastel shades of GO!TEAMLADY workout attire; trainers, shorts and active-top; standing alone in a quiet aisle of a brightly lit supermarket, her arms folded in front of her chest, teardrops smudging her mascara while she gazes blankly at the store's range of baby-diapers.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

mostly habit

[lukkucairi]

not knowing where to look in an elevator

[Hyakujo's Fox]

tomorrow

[lukkucairi]

getting antsy while waiting for someone to arrive

[β cyg]

a raven-haired girl in a scarlet dress, white cardigan and red patent-leather sandals, giggling while she plays at hide and seek, peering out from her hiding place behind a man in a deckchair, a frowning minister eating a fish and chips.

[lukkucairi]

wishing you had better speakers, no matter how good your speakers are.

[Bman]

..not quitting while you're ahead

[monkeyknifightz]

...slowing down to remember why this cake is your favorite and enjoying each bite that much more.

[lukkucairi]

stubborn.

[Coffee]

flipping the bird to anyone who asks you to please get out of the way.

[lukkucairi]

having to change all your plans because you realize now that you began working at the wrong end of the string

[monkeyknifightz]

feeling the pit of your stomach when she is gone.

[lukkucairi]

pretending you weren't just picking your nose.

[monkeyknifightz]

wiping the booger somewhere while looking over your shoulder

[lukkucairi]

the subtle, unspoken acknowledgment and negotiation between two people who share a hidden understanding.

[monkeyknifightz]

a merry-go round and 5 heads rolled into one mass of lakesky.

[lukkucairi]

aaahhhh! that's so fwcking cool, and I MADE THAT.

[lukkucairi]

the beat comes up through your diaphragm skips your heart ratchets up your spine a vertebra at a time grabs your reptile brain and makes you move.

[zero]

a woman in a persimmon dress sitting outside a riverside cafe on a warm friday evening in autumn, a vivid tattoo of a child in an persimmon dress on the bare nape of her neck.

[xfox]

Where's Marcus!

? (http://gravematter.smugmug.com/gallery/1414837/1/67108307/Large)

[Odbe]

♪walks on his own
with thoughts he can't help thinking ♪

[lukkucairi]

this wine is adequate, but it could have been aged a little longer.

[monkeyknifightz]

is remembering to not forget, just learn a little.

[lukkucairi]

going out on a limb

[zero]

a milkman in all-white coveralls closing the door of his all-white milk-float, bathed in the white floodlighting of a BP station at 7am in the daybreak fog of nyton road.

[lukkucairi]

the pain of using your index finger to cool a dab of hot glue

[lukkucairi]

occasional misery

[zero]

dawn o'clock. he follows a trail to the edge of the woods, losing his nerve as he feels the shadow watching. he stands still, remembering how once, driving back to the room in glen view he'd wanted to stop the car and disappear; to pull in under a caledonian pine and slip away venturing into the nowhere of starlight and wind, leaving no trace.

[Coffee]

half hoping the disturbed individual just jumps so traffic can get going again...

[Brynn]

wanting that thing you're working on to be absolutely, heart-stoppingly, unassailably perfect

[Hyakujo's Fox]

assimiliating with the borg

[Hyakujo's Fox]

and by borg I mean the frightening regional management.

[lukkucairi]

watching the Wizard of Oz for the forty-seventh time in your life

[Frieda]

^ and the sound of music on christmas eve, sing-a-long version

[trisherina]

Knowing how old = good

and a boy looking sheepish

[lukkucairi]

taking the piss

[Coffee]

getting to it later

[dddrum]

picking at a scab even though you know it'll never heal that way

[MoJoRiSin]

^gross !!

[MoJoRiSin]

having it dawn on you one day
that the best actors
are merely
con men

[lukkucairi]

freefall

[lukkucairi]

doing it anyway

[brightpearl]

being too chicken to do anything other than the same thing that hasn't ever worked

[Jack Flanders]

saying again you're sorry but will be open to saying it again one more time.

[zero]

a cardboard box sitting on the pavement in front of arundel postal collections depot, like a package that somebody was so excited to collect they could hardly wait to open it, and they walked out into the street and tore the lid back to find it was filled with nothing but fallen leaves, and in bewilderment or sad ness, just left it there on the pavement, abandoned.

[monkeyknifightz]

saying again you're sorry but will be open to saying it again one more time.

Human is finding those bits of inspiration at just the right time.

[lukkucairi]

she's crying in the shower again

[Jack Flanders]

Human is finding those bits of inspiration at just the right time.

But will they understand that its to them that the apology is sent?

[monkeyknifightz]

But will they understand that its to them that the apology is sent?

Human is to hope, human is to be bitter, but it is also human to forgive.

[dddrum]

having it dawn on you one day
that the best actors
are merely
con men
and then when wondering why so many look to these folk for political/moral guidance

[Coffee]

...believing that Oprah's next diet will work this time for me

[lukkucairi]

a sword on the threshold

[lukkucairi]

everything goes by just a little too quick these days

[Pixie Cherries]

Thinking your house is messier than company would judge it to be.

[lapietra]

growing attached over the years to a houseful of stuff... putting most of it in storage because you have to move quickly, no time to sort through it all... two years of payments later throwing most of what you've stored away, seeing it for the old crap that it really is.

[MoJoRiSin]

human is not:
persecuting someone you perceive as a threat?

well what would a tribal chieftain do?

[lukkucairi]

human is

wanting it all to be in one place, just for once

[monkeyknifightz]

he pissed all over his territory

[lukkucairi]

sitting on a park bench, vaguely jealous of the pigeons

[lapietra]

analyzing other people's inner lives to feel better about your own

[monkeyknifightz]

human is not a condition, human is a struggle. human is not a disease, human is a privledge. human is createivity

[lukkucairi]

you don't really hate us, you just hate yourself

[treekisser]

...bitching and moaning about things that don't really matter very much in the scheme of things.

[lukkucairi]

putting on a brave face

farting because it's funny

being creatively self-destructive

saying you don't give a shit when you really do

taking it personally

letting go of the rope

deciding that brie tastes like testicles smell

[zero]

o (http://interviewproject.davidlynch.com/)

o (http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid3737074001?bctid=23165842001)

[MoJoRiSin]

http://epath.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/buddha_sarnath-3.jpg

[zero]

jenny brown and anthony (http://twitter.com/DAVID_LYNCH/statuses/1885413465)

[Hyakujo's Fox]

turning and returning

[lukkucairi]

coveting this beat

[MoJoRiSin]

showing off your small club

[lukkucairi]

being the small axe

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

being small

[dddrum]

being

[lukkucairi]

not being sure, not ever

[lukkucairi]

walking across the grass instead of following the concrete path

[MoJoRiSin]

thinking up

apple rhubarb pie:)

[lukkucairi]

allergies

[lukkucairi]

Little My at the control booth of the heart.

[lukkucairi]

a no-win situation

[trisherina]

balancing the desire to do SFA with the desire to fix it all for everyone tomorrow

[Hyakujo's Fox]

waiting til new year's

[Marcus Bales]

wondering what the fuss is all about

[lukkucairi]

feeling better after the D3 supplements kick in

[trisherina]

deciding you no longer want to be sure about that many things

[Marcus Bales]

arguing about inconsequential things as if they mattered because something has to matter.

[xfox]

Adopting, babies and other things

[Hyakujo's Fox]

desperately avoiding what human is

[lukkucairi]

unable to resist the beat

[Jack Flanders]

punching windows because of cats

[trisherina]

not being sure, but hoping so anyway

[Marcus Bales]

showing off your small club

Only to very close friends, Mojo, only to VERY close friends.

[xfox]

Collectively, sometimes similar to a hornet's nest.

[lukkucairi]

wilting in the heat

[xfox]

Springing ahead

[lukkucairi]

same as it ever was

[trisherina]

coming back to life all at once

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

addiction

[lukkucairi]

putting your foot down, finally

[xfox]

reading

[trisherina]

not trusting your good fortune.

[lukkucairi]

doing the thing that's correct, but only after exhausting every other option.

[MoJoRiSin]

he who loved eveyone won

[lukkucairi]

being compassionate, but being bitchy about it.

[MoJoRiSin]

[CENTER][/CTHOU SHALT NOT !ENTER]

[Coffee]

Agreeing sympathetically with the crazy lady long enough to get the uncompleted (and way overdue) work out of her hands, then firing her.

[lukkucairi]

feeling the fear but standing inside it, facing it down and not being driven before it.

again and again and again, apparently.

[MoJoRiSin]

Not wanting to stop *fighting* when the physician gives you a death sentence

[lukkucairi]

^ pfft, doctors, what do THEY know? :rolleyes:

human is living your life til your life runs out enough to let you die.

[Coffee]

dealing with it

[Coffee]

not dealing with it very well

[ironicgoose]

Drinking milk after your mother stops lactating

[MoJoRiSin]

^ :D

[lukkucairi]

pretty weird

[MoJoRiSin]

U ndertanding mo because she makes it so simple. : )

B oise newyorktimes dance
A spen newyorktimes music

[MoJoRiSin]

Big read won

[MoJoRiSin]

Being inspired by the 21st century enlightenment vid
Posted lest Wed
At boing boing dot com

[lukkucairi]

right about now, the FuuuuuuuunnnnnkkkkkkSsssoooouuuullllllllBroooooooo othhhhh...

[Marcus Bales]

turning fear into aggression

[lukkucairi]

not acting on your aggression because you know it's fear-based.

understanding that when you start a spiral of anger outward, it's very difficult to stop...

[Bman]

backing out of a perfectly sweet deal

[lukkucairi]

just going with it

[Coffee]

Human is realizing there is nothing you can do to force your "in-denial" friend go to the doctor :(

[lukkucairi]

^ :(

Human is the delicious tingle of fear you get when you sense someone about to step into the room.

[Bman]

wanting to be in a loop, any loop (can I just be in one already, seriously?)

[trisherina]

Autobiography in Five Chapters

I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk
I fall in.
I am lost... I am hopeless.
It isn't my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don't see it.
I fall in again.
I can't believe I'm in the same place.
But it isn't my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it is there.
I still fall in... it's a habit
My eyes are open
I know where I am
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.

I walk down another street.

Portia Nelson

[Brynn]

wanting something other than what you have

[Bman]

^^^^^^^^^


.....ffffffffffffffffff

[lukkucairi]

burning your fingers