Joleen LohTumblr (3.0; @lemonjunction)http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/<p>projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects projects </p> <p>balance</p>http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/48759842199http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/48759842199Wed, 24 Apr 2013 02:38:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m45285XjKw1qafjvyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/48759753469http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/48759753469Wed, 24 Apr 2013 02:36:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3de443fc3cce175c80b2539b83bbc60d/tumblr_milo1pJkZl1qe2f6oo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/43714570721http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/43714570721Fri, 22 Feb 2013 04:52:27 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/94496c3dcbb55797a536c206d3ba2a96/tumblr_mgcaew1PlX1r9hbk7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/40088120200http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/40088120200Wed, 09 Jan 2013 06:34:58 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f66b76851fe5b290dc87fd7e274648ed/tumblr_mfpfo8fOG01qbpdcto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/38972103480http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/38972103480Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:03:31 -0500<p><span class="Apple-style-span"><span>Learning to love differently is hard,</span><br/><span>love with the hands wide open, love</span><br/><span>with the doors banging on their hinges,</span><br/><span>the cupboard unlocked, the wind </span><br/><span>roaring and whimpering in the rooms</span><br/><span>rustling the sheets and snapping the blinds</span><br/><span>that thwack like rubber bands</span><br/><span>in an open palm.</span><br/><br/><span>It hurts to love wide open</span><br/><span>stretching the muscles that feel</span><br/><span>as if they are made of wet plaster,</span><br/><span>then of blunt knives, then</span><br/><span>of sharp knives.</span><br/><br/><span>It hurts to thwart the reflexes</span><br/><span>of grab, of clutch; to love and let</span><br/><span>go again and again. It pesters to remember</span><br/><span>the lover who is not in the bed,</span><br/><span>to hold back what is owed to the work</span><br/><span>that gutters like a candle in a cave</span><br/><span>without air, to love consciously, </span><br/><span>conscientiously, concretely, constructively.</span><br/><br/><span>I can’t do it, you say it’s killing</span><br/><span>me, but you thrive, you glow</span><br/><span>on the street like a neon raspberry,</span><br/><span>You float and sail, a helium balloon</span><br/><span>bright bachelor’s button blue and bobbing</span><br/><span>on the cold and hot winds of our breath,</span><br/><span>as we make and unmake in passionate</span><br/><span>diastole and systole the rhythm</span><br/><span>of our unbound bonding, to have</span><br/><span>and not to hold, to love</span><br/><span>with minimized malice, hunger</span><br/><span>and anger moment by moment balanced.</span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span"><span><br/></span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span"><span><em>Marge Piercy</em><span> </span><br/></span></span></p>http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/38960562414http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/38960562414Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:29:20 -0500<p>PRIORITIES </p>http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/38720164731http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/38720164731Mon, 24 Dec 2012 11:18:17 -0500<p>We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are. - Anais Nin</p>http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/38719223409http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/38719223409Mon, 24 Dec 2012 11:03:40 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e63e35fa0fa5d4865061c6ebb4ced480/tumblr_mfhwnoMIOT1rzlsc1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/38719146526http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/38719146526Mon, 24 Dec 2012 11:02:27 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7pffhBNZ41qjg75jo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://pikeys.tumblr.com/post/28651124088/by-a-f-vandevorst" target="_blank">pikeys</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>by A.F. Vandevorst</p> </blockquote>http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/37974437042http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/37974437042Sat, 15 Dec 2012 05:54:06 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md5kxcQXhv1qbou55o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/37974391314http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/37974391314Sat, 15 Dec 2012 05:52:15 -0500<img src="http://assets.tumblr.com/images/content_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/37974374622http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/37974374622Sat, 15 Dec 2012 05:51:36 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/7f308167c6752cdb80fa201dd39c79a0/tumblr_mf1smu3Owy1r2khmeo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/37974360799http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/37974360799Sat, 15 Dec 2012 05:51:04 -0500<p>Happiness is a fragile thing.</p>http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/37921827063http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/37921827063Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:24:24 -0500<p>pushing, pulling.</p>http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/36498321105http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/36498321105Sun, 25 Nov 2012 03:49:20 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m24rhyngOS1qbuq9fo1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/36495473709http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/36495473709Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:33:43 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4llc50Jst1qbpdcto1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/36495443334http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/36495443334Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:33:00 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdhf2c30xq1qfncxao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/36495442081http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/36495442081Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:32:58 -0500“I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of ‘living a lie’. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.”<br/><br/> - <em>Lynn Barber, <em>An Education</em>  </em>http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/36271588174http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/36271588174Thu, 22 Nov 2012 02:20:59 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdgahkaW7T1qi0gaeo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/36271581821http://lemonjunction.tumblr.com/post/36271581821Thu, 22 Nov 2012 02:20:50 -0500