Jackie Lee

I miss One Tree Hill

Mon, 20 May 2013 01:37:29 -0400

I miss One Tree Hill

"When I was a little girl my dad used to read the paper every Sunday and my mom would read a book..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 01:30:00 -0400

“When I was a little girl my dad used to read the paper every Sunday and my mom would read a book near by. And I would sit on the top of the stairs and just watch them, watch them be still together. When I think of being in love that’s what I picture, days like that and nights like this.”

- Quin James (One Tree Hill)

"If you’re interested in making sure kids learn a lot in school, yes, intervening in early childhood..."

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:38:36 -0500

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If you’re interested in making sure kids learn a lot in school, yes, intervening in early childhood is the time to do it … But if you’re interested in how people become who they are, so much is going on in the adolescent years.

[…]

It turns out that just before adolescence, the prefrontal cortex—the part of the brain that governs our ability to reason, grasp abstractions, control impulses, and self-reflect—undergoes a huge flurry of activity, giving young adults the intellectual capacity to form an identity, to develop the notion of a self. Any cultural stimuli we are exposed to during puberty can, therefore, make more of an impression, because we’re now perceiving them discerningly and metacognitively as things to sweep into our self-concepts or reject (I am the kind of person who likes the Allman Brothers). “During times when your identity is in transition,” says Steinberg, “it’s possible you store memories better than you do in times of stability.”

At the same time, the prefrontal cortex has not yet finished developing in adolescents. It’s still adding myelin, the fatty white substance that speeds up and improves neural connections, and until those connections are consolidated—which most researchers now believe is sometime in our mid-twenties—the more primitive, emotional parts of the brain (known collectively as the limbic system) have a more significant influence. This explains why adolescents are such notoriously poor models of self-regulation, and why they’re so much more dramatic—“more Kirk than Spock,” in the words of B. J. Casey, a neuroscientist at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. In adolescence, the brain is also buzzing with more dopamine activity than at any other time in the human life cycle, so everything an adolescent does—everything an adolescent feels—is just a little bit more intense. “And you never get back to that intensity,” says Casey. (The British psychoanalyst Adam Phillips has a slightly different way of saying this: “Puberty,” he writes, “is everyone’s first experience of a sentient madness.”)

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- Fascinating read on how adolescence shapes who we are. (via explore-blog)
Didn’t know this! Too cool

This is too GREAT!!

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:36:32 -0500

This is too GREAT!!

"People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are..."

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:21:06 -0500

“People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”

- Neil Gaiman (via thoughtsdetained)

Love.

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:20:50 -0500

Love.

aseaofquotes: Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:20:33 -0500

aseaofquotes:

Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know

Top 10 Books of 2012. Need this for later

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:19:50 -0500

Top 10 Books of 2012.

Need this for later

This is awesome!

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:17:15 -0500

This is awesome!

“Buying books is immensely comforting. Maybe I won’t read them immediately, but they make me feel...

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:16:25 -0500

“Buying books is immensely comforting. Maybe I won’t read them immediately, but they make me feel so much better whenever I’m sad and blue. Just their presence, it’s like having more to look forward to.”

"Faulkner really gave me a kind of humanity that I might not have had. In that sense, literature is..."

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:13:16 -0500

“Faulkner really gave me a kind of humanity that I might not have had. In that sense, literature is Eucharistic. You take somebody else’s suffering into your body and you’re changed by it, you’re made larger by their pain. You come to understand pain in a way that maybe otherwise you wouldn’t.”

- Mary Karr echoes the idea that reading is always an act of empathy and fiction an empathy-expander. (via explore-blog)

Photo

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:49:58 -0500

"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting..."

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:47:52 -0500

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”

- Ernest Hemingway (via 24ribs)

Truth.

(via devouringbooks)

This is beautiful.

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:14:07 -0500

This is beautiful.

"The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like..."

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 23:00:01 -0500

“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”

- Neil deGrasse Tyson (via thegirlandherbooks)

"I think when it’s all over it just comes back in flashes, you know? It’s like a kaleidoscope of..."

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 02:29:14 -0500

““I think when it’s all over it just comes back in flashes, you know? It’s like a kaleidoscope of memories; it just all comes back.
But he never does.
I think part of me knew the second I saw him that this would happen. It’s not really anything he said, or anything he did; it was the feeling that came along with it. Crazy thing is, I don’t know if I’m ever going to feel that way again. But I don’t know if I should.
I knew his world moved too fast and burned to bright, but I just thought…
‘How can the devil be pulling you toward someone who looks so much like an angel when he smiles at you?’
Maybe he knew that when he saw me. I guess I just lost my balance.
I think that the worst part of it all wasn’t losing him. It was losing me.”

- wow. Taylor Swift (via beremi)

love it!

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 02:25:28 -0500

love it!

tcbheroine: All played out Gimme Gimme

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:04:32 -0500

tcbheroine:

All played out

Gimme Gimme

zackbumweg: Winterspaziergang im Englischen Garten

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:16:21 -0500

zackbumweg:

Winterspaziergang im Englischen Garten

Have you ever met someone..

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:38:24 -0500

josephemil:

That right off that bat, you instantly clicked with? You find them attractive in so many ways and love talking to them, you think about them all the time and wonder if they’re thinking the same about you. It’s not like you get attached, but you just really enjoy their company, in person and even just over the phone. You saw something different in them and you can see them as someone special in your life if the circumstances call for it. That is nice.