a year comes and goes

 

Stranger than Paradise | Jim Jarmusch (1984)

"If there is no fog on the day you come home I will build a bonfire / So the smoke will make the cedars look the way you like them"

Matthea Harvey

In order to go to sleep, you must build a canoe. In order to go to sleep, you must put yourself in this canoe. You must launch from the shore and on this shore you must leave all objects and people behind. Sometimes one person can go in the canoe to help you along. Only one person is allowed. This person can never be a lover nor a child. As you get further from the edge, you will have to commit to cutting the string that binds you. You must resolve to let them go, or you will never be free. So remove the scissors from your dress and cut the line. Cut this line.

from PLEASE LIGHT UP

by Ted Powers

Because we are in love
I can know five or six things.
If the band plays inside the barn
and we stand outside the barn
we won’t need earplugs.
The next day the cows will moo
louder without realizing it.
Two down. You can probably
guess the final three or four:
the one about doubt,
the one about change,
the one about the void in people
and/or what the neighbors think.

another season brings another set of songs to remind me of

Il y a des beautés qui sautent aux yeux et d'autres qui sont écrites en hyéroglyphes: on met du temps à déchiffrer leur splendeur mais, quand elle est apparue, elle est plus belle que la beauté.

― Amélie Nothomb

I wandered home, saying your name

You'll be having my head, big as a birthday

The lights here are softer than you'd think

The dim lit peacocks in the trees,

They're hiding their eyes

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"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

Albert Camus

two truths and a lie

photos by Mark Leidner

LUNAR ECLIPSE 2011

from top to bottom: Indian Peaks in Colorado with the eclipsing Moon setting overhead. Credit: Patrick Cullis; A composite image of the Dec. 10, 2011 lunar eclipse as seen from Ankara, Turkey. Credit: M. Rasid Tugral; A spooky-looking eclipsed Moon, as seen in Oakland, California. Credit: Eexelbots.

(source: universetoday)

you are my safe place

"It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you’ve set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over."

Frank O'Hara | "Meditations in an Emergency"

"Entrapped in being, we shall always have to come out of it. And when we are hardly outside of being, we always have to go back into it."

Gaston Bachelard | Poetics of Space, "The Dialectics of Outside and Inside"