December 2011
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can we perceive beauty if we are not open to it? →
In a common-place environment, at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty? If so, do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?
September 2011
2 posts
reconnecting the dots →
The food movement’s power is connection itself. Corporatism distances us from one another, from the earth—and even from our own bodies, tricking them to crave that which destroys them—while the food movement celebrates our reconnection… At its best, this movement encourages us to “think like an ecosystem,” enabling us to see a place for ourselves connected to all others, for in ecological...
August 2011
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July 2011
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“The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you’ve gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you’ve gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?”
— Zhuangzi – 300 BC
June 2011
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“Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be...”
– Tom Robbins
December 2010
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YOUR MOTHER AND MY MOTHER
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions,
For your mother and my mother
Were friends.
I know the Innkeeper
In this part of the universe.
Get some rest tonight,
Come to my verse again tomorrow
We’ll go speak to the Friend together.
I should not make any promises right now,
But I know if you PRay...
IT FELT LOVE
How
Did the rose
Ever open its heart
And give to this world
All its
Beauty?
It felt the encouragement of light
Against its
Being,
Otherwise,
We all remain
Too
Frightened.
Hafiz
August 2010
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You’ve been in a rut so long, you think it’s a groove
June 2010
1 post
how's about a story
it is the story that hooked me, but when I swallowed that hook, I didn’t have one to help hook others. buried in my gut, it must be retrieved in order to reel in others.
May 2010
2 posts
when you travel to a place, what determines the quality of the visit? the degree to which you immerse yourself for experience or follow the beaten path of the neo-colonial legacy? to try to know a place and its people, or to consume and dispose of them readily like the fetishized commodities that “world travel” has become? thanks, lonely planet, for making the world a safer commodity.
Bequest.
You left me, sweet, two legacies,-
A legacy of love
A Heavenly Father would content,
Had He offer of
You left me boundaries of pain
Capacious as the sea,
Between eternity and time,
Your consciousness and me
April 2010
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I will be a worker: it’s this idea that keeps me alive, when my mad fury would have me leap into the midst of Paris’s battles—where how many other workers die as I write these words? To work now? Never, never. I’m on strike. Right now, I’m encrapulating myself as much as possible. Why? I want to be a poet, and I’m working to turn myself into a seer: you won’t...
March 2010
11 posts
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Dark Eyes
Oh, the gentlemen are talking and the...
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not...”
– Nietzsche
“To put your life in danger from time to time… breeds a saneness in dealing...”
– Nevil Shute
“We are born with empty hands and we die with empty hands. What is the point of...”
“If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything...”
– Søren Kierkegaard (via alixevette)
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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, On Work
“Love.
Because of you, in gardens of blossoming
Flowers I ache from the perfumes of spring.
I have forgotten your face, I no longer
Remember your hands; how did your lips
Feel on mine?
Because of you, I love the white statues
Drowsing in the parks, the white statues that
Have neither voice nor sight.
I have forgotten your voice, your happy voice;
I have forgotten your eyes....
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February 2010
21 posts
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Domestic economy and waste reduction
“Economy of housekeeping is simply gathering up all the fragments, so that nothing be lost. Fragments of time, as well as materials.”—-Mrs. Child.
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Everybody will help you, Discover what you set...
Brian Alfred →
Attica„ 2009 . Acrylic on Canvas
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“you can cut back all the flowers, but you...
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note to self: make soy-free tempeh →
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Rowing along, among the reeds, among the rushes I...
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“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or...”
– Jim Jarmusch
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find...”
– Edgar Allen Poe
“Don’t surrender your loneliness
So quickly.
Let it cut more deep.
Let it...”
– Hafiz (via technocrizingaffection)
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January 2010
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December 2009
19 posts
Endure - Shinobu
The not-happening was so sudden that I stayed there for ever, without knowing, without their knowing me, as if I were under a chair, as if I were lost in the night- so was that which was not, and so have I stayed for ever.
I asked the others after, the women and the men, what they were doing with such confidence and how they had learned their living; they did not actually answer, they went on...
