art, oddities, halloween, circus, sideshow, inspiration, things in jars, the moon, astronomy, creep. I’m just an ordinary ghoul waiting for my mr. fright.Tumblr (3.0; @memoirofaghost)http://memoirofaghost.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0ryy5GmAi1rpp1a2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p>“Damn everything but the circus!<br/>…damn everything that is grim, dull,<br/>motionless, unrisking, inward turning,<br/>damn everything that won’t get into the<br/>circle, that won’t enjoy, that won’t throw<br/>its heart into the tension, surprise, fear<br/>and delight of the circus, the round<br/>world, the full existence…”</p> <p>-E.E. Cummings</p> </blockquote>http://memoirofaghost.tumblr.com/post/19178842632http://memoirofaghost.tumblr.com/post/19178842632Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:01:17 -0400inspirationalpoetrye. e. cummingscircusvintagequote<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m05slmxI9w1rpp1a2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p>“<strong>Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.”</strong></p> <p>- Ralph Waldo Emerson</p> </blockquote>http://memoirofaghost.tumblr.com/post/18494360181http://memoirofaghost.tumblr.com/post/18494360181Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:36:00 -0500circusinspirationinspirationalquoteralph waldo emersonvintage<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m022xezWdP1rpp1a2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">“The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created—created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. <strong>The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating.</strong> The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.”</span></span></p> </blockquote> <p><strong><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></strong></p>http://memoirofaghost.tumblr.com/post/18379275942http://memoirofaghost.tumblr.com/post/18379275942Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:29:00 -0500inspirationalquote<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzswhzqB321rpp1a2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“<strong>Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you</strong>.”</p> <p>- Lao Tzu</p>http://memoirofaghost.tumblr.com/post/18072083638http://memoirofaghost.tumblr.com/post/18072083638Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:32:00 -0500inspirationlao tzuinspirationalquote<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzfru2JS8z1rpp1a2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p>Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.</p> <p> <em>Explore. Dream. Discover.</em></p> <p> <br/>- Mark Twain</p> </blockquote>http://memoirofaghost.tumblr.com/post/17655591080http://memoirofaghost.tumblr.com/post/17655591080Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:22:50 -0500inspirationalmark twain<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lze96kna2h1rpp1a2o1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://memoirofaghost.tumblr.com/post/17612569257http://memoirofaghost.tumblr.com/post/17612569257Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:42:20 -0500vintagehorrorfrankensteinvalentine<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lze95dBYzA1rpp1a2o1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://memoirofaghost.tumblr.com/post/17612547255http://memoirofaghost.tumblr.com/post/17612547255Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:41:37 -0500vintagehorrorvalentinezombie<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzcb1wOM591rpp1a2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://memoirofaghost.tumblr.com/post/17554813524http://memoirofaghost.tumblr.com/post/17554813524Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:27:32 -0500x-raysvintagebeauty<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzc5ctYFym1rpp1a2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>The Philosopher</strong></p> <p><span class="f14px fntAri clr333333">And what are you that, wanting you,<br/>I should be kept awake<br/>As many nights as there are days<br/>With weeping for your sake?<br/><br/>And what are you that, missing you,<br/>As many days as crawl<br/>I should be listening to the wind<br/>And looking at the wall?<br/><br/>I know a man that’s a braver man<br/>And twenty men as kind,<br/>And what are you, that you should be<br/>The one man in my mind?<br/><br/>Yet women’s ways are witless ways,<br/>As any sage will tell,—<br/>And what am I, that I should love<br/>So wisely and so well?</span></p> <p><span class="f14px fntAri clr333333">-Edna St. Vincent Millay</span></p>http://memoirofaghost.tumblr.com/post/17551212394http://memoirofaghost.tumblr.com/post/17551212394Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:24:29 -0500poetrylovelossEdna St. Vincent Millay<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz6jo7arSm1rpp1a2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><strong>“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.”</strong><br/>-Groucho Marx</p> </blockquote> <p>An older Chico and Harpo Marx, my favorite of the Marx brothers being Chico, pictured above.</p>http://memoirofaghost.tumblr.com/post/17370617131http://memoirofaghost.tumblr.com/post/17370617131Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:48:07 -0500groucho marxharpo marxchico marxinspiration