please notice when you are happy

freewrite because there's no other way:


nostalgia abuzz in the ear amuck with honey

a scent in the dark
bloomscents, wakescents, sleepscents
f a d e s c e n t s
skingulpingsun, growing grassdreams
falling in love alloveragain with skyfluff
things like that
that bring me back
to i don't know what
what
pores opening memories pouring
an open membrane so many little slots like for
raindrops or the smallest speck of sunray
maybe back to 厦门, back to 亲戚, 阿姨,
奶奶's big house
王老吉 王老吉 王老吉
a puzzle
a very big puzzle
don't know howwherewhy every piece fits
but feeling the locks turn


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so i have yet to read a book by kurt vonnegut. that's ok. right now. because i should be reading for class. i'm already in the library! with e.b. (sans white)! but one of my favorite webcomics (i have favorites yes), a softer world or perhaps more accurately, the writer for the comic joey comeau, has informed me (in his little news update blurb) of a wonderful kurt vonnegut quote i'd like to share with all of you. even if you already know it - and are probably a much bigger vonnegut buff than i could ever hope to be - i think this quote is still well worth a repetition:

I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'

while searching for the context of this quote - since joey comeau does not, in spite of all his generosity and good intentions, provide much context - i came across 15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will, Vonnegut's speech/essay 'Knowing What's Nice', and some funny Vonnegut-related blog posts by austin kleon.

and well, i just thought the quote's really simple and lovely. a nice reminder to say hi to the nice moments.

'cause personally, although i really really should be plowing through mounds of work...i've been having such a *happy* weekend of conversations, poetry reading, music sharing, campus walking...and i'd just like to acknowledge/remember that =D