February 2011
1 post
“…in the sad disarray of my confused emotions…
A twilight sadness...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
October 2010
1 post
(Untitled Fragment)
Little solace comes
to those who grieve
when thoughts keep drifting
as walls keep shifting
and this great blue world of ours
seems a house of leaves
moments before the wind.
M. Danielewski, from House of Leaves
September 2010
1 post
“The truth is that I do not like hanging in there. I was born, I believe, to do...”
– from What Is the What -D. Eggers
August 2010
2 posts
“Whether the wave is ascending or descending, the ocean is always there. You are...”
– Henry Miller
May 2010
2 posts
Orchard and Road
-by Rainer Maria Rilke
In the traffic of our days
may we attend to each thing
so that patterns are revealed
amidst the offerings of chance.
All things want to be heard,
so let us listen to what they say.
In the end we will hear what we are:
the orchard or the road leading past.
March 2010
3 posts
Remembering
-by Rainer Maria Rilke
And you wait. You wait for the one thing
that will change your life,
make it more than it is—
something wonderful, exceptional,
stones awakening, depths opening to you.
In the dusky bookstalls
old books glimmer gold and brown.
You think of lands you journeyed through,
of paintings and a dress once worn
by a woman you never found again.
And...
WatchA lovely little film that makes me miss my old JoJo. Can’t believe she’s been gone for five years as of this month.
February 2010
3 posts
hello, how are you? by Charles Bukowski
this fear of being what they are:
dead.
at least they are not out on the street, they
are careful to stay indoors, those
pasty mad who sit alone before their TV sets,
their lives full of canned, mutilated laughter.
their ideal neighborhood
of parked cars
of little green lawns
of little homes
the little doors that open and close
as their relatives visit
throughout the holidays
the...
“I have learned…that art is not art. Gardens are not gardens; they are a...”
– Robert Murase, landscape architect
“PROCEED AND BE BOLD.”
– Sambo Mockbee
“What‘s difficult is not to change the world, but to not be paralyzed by the...”
– Mikis Mazarakis
January 2010
17 posts
“Do not seek to follow
In the footsteps of Men of Old,
Seek instead what they...”
– Matsuo Basho
Morning Song
Words are the poison in a song on the track of the song’s night road police sirens aftertaste the alcohol of sleepwalkers waking up, a headache like the window’s transparent speakers from silence to a roar learning to waste a life I hover in the birdcalls crying never when the storms have filled up with gas light rays snatch the letter unfold it and tear it up
by Bei Dao
“Happiness left a note on my fridge saying: you’re on your own.”
– (via chocolatemuffin)
seeking distractions
dis⋅trac⋅tion [di-strak-shuhn]
–noun
division or disorder caused by dissension; tumult.
Synonyms: madness, lunacy, insanity, craziness.
The Black Hole
“When I show someone the black hole it is difficult for me not to push that person into it. I’m not sure what that means but it frightens me. Sometimes when I go to the black hole by myself I’m afraid I might jump into it despite my own resistance. I’m afraid of myself. It’s as if I’ve been given someone else’s heart and someone else has mine, as if...
Dead Letter & The Infinite Yes by Wintersleep....
mystify me
mys·ti·fy (mĭs’tə-fī’)
tr.v.
To confuse or puzzle mentally.
To make obscure or mysterious.
