December 2008
“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is...”
– John Ruskin
Many believed this day would never come, but in a few short days, an African American man will move from his private residence into a much larger and infinitely more expensive one owned not by him but by the taxpayers. A vast lawn, a perimeter fence and many well trained security specialists will insulate him from the rest of us but the mere fact that this man will be residing in this house should...
“Cities that ranked higher for having more bookstores also have a higher...”
– Seattle, Minneapolis most literate of big cities - USATODAY.com (via fred-wilson) (via michaelikesit)
The Art of Poetry
mightypen:
If, as the sound says, A city ambulance rips open the night, Then in its wake, The brother and sister buckeyes Slap eachother in an aftershower. On the way down, Happy to be flying for a moment, The fire under their skin Looking for a companion fire Under the skin of the earth. And they thud on the pavement.
If, as the sound says, Then I learned to listen to the call Of your wild...
copycats:
“If I Only Had A Brain” by The Flaming...
“And through a fractal on a breaking wall,
I see you my friend and touch your...”
– “Crazy” - Seal
“An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn’t know, but the ordinary...”
– Patti Smith (via thelovelymisslisa) (via erickd)
To Dorothy, Marvin Bell
poetry365:
You are not beautiful, exactly. You are beautiful, inexactly. You let a weed grow by the mulberry And a mulberry grow by the house. So close, in the personal quiet Of a windy night, it brushes the wall And sweeps away the day till we sleep.
A child said it, and it seemed true: “Things that are lost are all equal.” But it isn’t true. If I lost you, The air wouldn’t move, nor...
“If writing on paper can steal your heart away, just imagine what my lips on your...”
– L-X, ‘The Poet’ (via britches) (via isntlifejuicy)
Slow…Like a heartbeat sleeping
The sundial
Has its own Pendulum Swing…
On the shadow side
In the stillness
A breath held
All life in momentary suspension
Surrendered to the darkest moment
Yet roots lie hidden beneath that frozen earth
waiting for a chance to break through
To a brighter glint, a sun-warmed morning
And so we too live quiet hidden lives
Sheltered from cold
we rock on this axial...
Ten Stories You May Have Missed in 2008 →
“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a...”
– Robert A. Heinlein (via parfois) via longwintervia presentvia suddenly (via bebelestrange)
True dat!
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“Don’t fight darkness. Bring the light & darkness will disappear.”
– Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (via shimmerandshine)
“It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better”
– Jonathan Ive (via randominternet) (via michaelikesit)
i want to put myself away
you want to take me out again
we’ve been doing this for days
ending then beginning again
diamond jane dreaming jungle soup says its just another day like today everyone’s talking but no one really has anything to say in her metal boots stomping on the ceiling through the thunder and the lightning through the hunger and the healing we’re all full of sparkle slowly turning into fade another passive parade of the broken heart brigade diamond jane packing ballet boxes pink and...
Why we yawn →
guy:
If your head is overheated, there’s a good chance you’ll yawn soon, according to a new study that found the primary purpose of yawning is to control brain temperature.
The more I write about yawning the more I yawn.
“A clean break is easier, you can reset it and it heals and you move on. But if...”
– Joyce (The Little Black Book) (via thresca)
“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without...”
– George Sand (via thresca)
