Xing. Country style.

Music is a way of expression whether it be pop, rock, heavy metal, classical, or my personal favorite - country. The genre of country music appeals to me because the songs have a message that transcends 'words on a page' to real life and actual experiences. This blog will focus on how country music meshes perfectly with events in my life and how sometimes it is able to explain the memories better than words.

[The heart
never fits
the journey.]
Always
one ends
first.

Jack Gilbert, from “Islands and Figs” (via the-final-sentence)

Love is like this at the bone, we hope, love
is like this, Sweetheart, all sore and dumb
and dangerous, ignited, blessed—always,
regardless, no exceptions,
always in blazing matters like these: blessed.

Thomas Lux, from “I Love You Sweatheart” (via the-final-sentence)

(via the-final-sentence)

newyorker:

Conservative Bedtime Stories

Jack Sprat

Jack Sprat could eat no fat
His wife could eat no lean
So the government stepped in with mandatory dietary guidelines
And the two starved to death.

…

Jack and Jill

Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water
Jack fell down
And broke his crown
And Jill rushed him to the hospital before Obamacare ruined the greatest health-care system in the world.

- In an online-only Shouts & Murmurs, Tom McNichol shares conservative bedtime stories. For more, including The Tortoise and the Hare, London Bridge, The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Three Little Pigs, and The Boy Who Cried Wolf: http://nyr.kr/HFdf0f

These are hilarious

Apt Insight

“There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them through a telescope you realize you are looking at twins. The two stars rotate around each other, sometimes taking nearly a hundred years to do it. They create so much gravitational pull there’s no room for anything else. You might see a blue star, for example, and realize only later that it has a white dwarf as a companion - that first one shines so bright, by the time you notice the second one, it’s really too late.” - My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult

How can I be anti-woman? I even judged the Miss America pageant.

–Rush Limbaugh’s response to the National Organization for Women’s outrage over his nickname for the group – National Association of Gals, or ‘Nags.’ (via officialssay)

I love people sometimes.

(via twloha)

Let’s not wait for an ending.

Mikael de Lara Co, from “Poem That Had Some Difficulty With the First Line” (via ahuntersheart)

(via the-final-sentence)

(via twloha)

‘I’ll tell you,’ I said, ‘Tomorrow.’

Jacqueline Carey, from Kushiel’s Dart (thank you, imsosrsly)

This was probably one of the most ‘unique’ books I have ever read.