March 2012
14 posts
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them...”
– Hermann Hesse (via studiesinscarlet)
February 2012
13 posts
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The Purpose of Ankles
Once superfluous when crawling
Evolves into vital for walking
Beneath the confinement of skin
Lay meaty systems busied with work
Ligaments of Modernity
Connecting foundational bone to bone
While contemporary tendons
Fasten bone to muscle
And muscle to muscle
The necessary tension
Required of movement
Directionless
With a veiled sense of sight
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“When you read a great poem, you instantly notice that there’s a deep truth...”
– Reality Hunger David Shields
“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
– Franz Kafka (via martaunderthesea)
“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you...”
– Diane Arbus (1923-1971, USA) [via artchipel] (via rerylikes)
“Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There’s a strong streak of...”
– David Foster Wallace (via tarts) (via unicornology, sometimesagreatnotion) (via tothepersoninthebelljar) (via pinkeezy) (via libraryland)
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“Reality-based art is a metaphor for the fact that this is all there is, there...”
– David Shields Reality Hunger
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The Joy of Quiet - Pico Iyer →
refreshing and centering read:
“None of this is a matter of principle or asceticism; it’s just pure selfishness. Nothing makes me feel better — calmer, clearer and happier — than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of music. It’s actually something deeper than mere happiness: it’s joy, which the monk David Steindl-Rast describes as “that kind of happiness that...
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“I don’t mean that everything we think is what we truly feel or that only...”
– David Shields Reality Hunger
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“‘Learning how to think’ really means learning how to exercise some...”
– David Foster Wallace “This is Water”
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“The most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are...”
– David Foster Wallace
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My Love Affair With Creativity: Be Who You Really...
I have recently fallen deeply back in love with act of creating and this is a little scribbling about embracing the wonderful creative spirit that rests inside everyone.
Creativity is not as hard to harvest as its reputation makes it out to be. It stretches deep; penetrating right down to the inscription in every individuals’ DNA coding. The recipe is simple: just be yourself. The...