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Tag Archives: growing up

I always felt that if I dressed more distinguished, that would add age to me. But [in my 40s] I figured dressing like a 20-year-old in jeans and T-shirts 24/7 would age me even quicker. Ahmir-Khalib Thompson (aka Questlove)I’m now in my 30s and am on a similar trajetory: I’ve started to prefer to wear …

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Posted byChristoph16/10/2015Posted inUncategorizedTags: aging, fashion, growing up, menswear, Questlove, queue, quote, style

There are things you cannot learn in the city. Sarah Kay’s poem on her summers in “Montauk.”(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Posted byChristoph28/02/201501/05/2018Posted inUncategorizedTags: childhood, growing up, montauk, New York city, poetry, sarah kay, Summer, video

Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up. Happy birthday Philip Roth. (Quote is from The Dying Animal)

Posted byChristoph19/03/2014Posted inUncategorizedTags: dying animal, everything about this post is overrated, growing old, growing up, happy birthday, Lit, Philip Roth

I Knew Prufrock Before He Got Famous (by Frank Turner) I always wanted to write a version of this song for me and my friends. I wanted to write the song before the song would just be about how we’re content in our marriages. How we don’t really hate our jobs. How we love our …

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Posted byChristoph17/08/201301/05/2018Posted inUncategorizedTags: adulthood, Frank Turner, growing up, marriage

Don’t worry about growing up, you’ll be great! Mr. Neverlanding (via emmazissou)

Posted byChristoph01/01/2012Posted inUncategorizedTags: growing up, worry

I was a father once had silver-gray hair then I became a child and finally knew everything I would ever need Growing Up.  Another new poem by me. 

Posted byChristoph21/09/2011Posted inUncategorizedTags: children, father, growing up, knowledge, poetry

I am convinced that most people do not grow up… We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy …

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Posted byChristoph15/08/2011Posted inUncategorizedTags: growing up, inner child, Maya Angelou

Happy Birthday, Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen – Growing up (Max’s Kansas City, NY 1972) (via paulrob2006)(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Posted byChristoph23/09/201001/05/2018Posted inUncategorizedTags: bruce springsteen, growing up
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