January 2012
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“Image-making, wrote Wallace Stevens, ‘is primarily a discipline of...”
– Jane Hirshfield, from Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (1997, p. 18)
“I was in a hellish relationship a few years ago, but I swear, the moment I said...”
– Katori Hall
December 2011
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“The story they say in Zen is, if you have a little piece of shit on your nose,...”
– Edward Espe Brown, from How to Cook Your Life
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“When I was first starting to cook, I asked Suzuki Roshi if he had any advice for...”
– Edward Espe Brown, from the documentary How to Cook Your Life
“Any idiot can face a crisis; it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
– Anton Chekhov (via silentsigh57)
November 2011
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“Let us forgive ourselves for writing poems that aren’t better than every...”
– Dean Young, The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction (p. 3)
“If you stop chasing him, he’ll fall for you. Let him be his own dog.”
– A friend’s advice to her three-year-old about how to handle the new puppy in the house
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I went ice skating last night and it was glorious. In one hour, I progressed from clutching the side of the rink to actually skating, reasonably fast and relatively steadily.
It’s always like that when I start skating again. Those first two turns around the rink are utterly terrifying and so, so hard. My feet cramp and my legs ache with the tension of balancing. I hate that out-of-control...
October 2011
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“I used to go five miles over the speed limit when Jane was alive. If I was at...”
– My landlord
“All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.”
– David Brower
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“You know I’ve always reminded myself of Grace Kelly.”
– Jenna Maroney in Season 1 Episode 12 of 30 Rock (Black Tie).
“[T]his one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching...”
– Fragment of Phillipians 3:13 (KJV)
September 2011
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Why we crave creativity but reject creative ideas →
Two churches located across the street from each...
tithenai:
wizasaur:
-prettyprettyplease:
ultraball:
paranoidrobot:
…Do the Presbyterians think Rocks are animals?
ALL ROCKS GO TO HEAVEN
CONVERTING TO CATHOLICISM DOES NOT MAGICALLY GRANT YOUR DOG A SOUL.
WOW. EPIC CATHOLIC WIN.
I LOVE THIS.
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Last night at Kirby's Beer Store
Annoying Guy (making himself heard over the band): What do you think about 9/11?
Me (annoyed): I'm listening to the music right now.
AG: OK.
[Two minute pause.]
AG (leaning over, semi-yelling in my ear): So, you really don't have any thoughts about 9/11?
Me: I have plenty of thoughts, but I'm here to see the band.
Note to fellow bar patrons: If I'm chair dancing, please don't try to engage me in debate. Thanks in advance.
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'Remind Me of Apples,' Robert Francis
When the cicada celebrates the heat, Intoning that tomorrow and today Are only yesterday with the same dust To dust on plantain and on roadside yarrow- Remind me, someone, of the apples coming, Gold in the dew of deep October grass, A prophecy of snow in their white flesh. In the long haze of dog days, or by night When thunder growls and prowls but will not go Or come, I lose the memory of...
August 2011
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“For those in love with certainty, seduction is no territory in which to stray.”
– Alain de Botton, On Love (1993), p. 18
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“We are and we remain sensuous beings even when we deal with spiritual things.”
– Paul Tillich
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“Modern mass culture, aimed at the ‘consumer’, the civilisation of prosthetics,...”
– Andrei Tarkovsky (via zenlikeme)
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From 'Five Villanelles,' by Weldon Kees
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The crack is moving down the wall. Defective plaster isn’t all the cause. We must remain until the roof falls in.
It’s mildly cheering to recall That every building has its little flaws. The crack is moving down the wall.
Here in the kitchen, drinking gin, We can accept the damndest laws. We must remain until the roof falls in.
And though there’s no one here at all, ...
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From 'Suggested Messages For Use With...
From a box of vintage “sympathy acknowledgment” cards. The repetition gives the suggested messages a pantoum, sestina-like quality:
For convenience of the user, there is included in each box of Acknowledgment Note Sheets a folder of messages which may be found appropriate and useful.
The following suggestions are offered with the hope they may prove of some aid and convenience in...
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“[F]ood discussion can be really triggering for people who have trauma regarding...”
– Food, Glorious Food; Talking About Food From A HAES Perspective In FA Spaces
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“When winter is here, it will be here.”
– David Markson, Wittgenstein’s Mistress
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July 2011
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'Jesus on a Tortilla,' Lee Upton
I can’t stop thinking about the woman in New Mexico who discovered the face of Jesus on a tortilla and how her husband stopped drinking due to the tortilla, the parish priest blessed the tortilla and tried to duplicate the face on his own tortilla. A miracle and people are still coming to see the tortilla. They call it “Jesus on a Tortilla” like a Saturday special in an all-night...
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the wild and wily ways of a brunette bombshell:... →
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Nu Penny is open. Well no it's closed, but that's... →
These are on Facebook, so I can’t post the actual photos, but you should check out photographer Larry Schwarm’s images of artist Randy Rieger’s installation/toy store, Nu Penny. The interior of the shop is rendered entirely in photographic grayscale, which gives the pictures of the work an extra layer of interest and complexity. Each toy is constructed of repurposed parts; each...
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“You know what they say: Beware of weak men. They’re the most dangerous,...”
– Gala Gallardo on the Season 4 finale of Nip/Tuck, which is a delightfully soapy distraction while I engage in some major summer housecleaning
June 2011
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Top ten myths about introverts - Jerry Brito →
May Sarton, 'Now I Become Myself'
Now I become myself. It’s taken Time, many years and places; I have been dissolved and shaken, Worn other people’s faces, Run madly, as if Time were there, Terribly old, crying a warning, “Hurry, you will be dead before—” (What? Before you reach the morning? Or the end of the poem is clear? Or love safe in the walled city?) Now to stand still, to be here, ...
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“[W]hen things happen to women, we are supposed to remain silent. Our shame...”
– Margaret Cho, I’m the One That I Want (2001), p. 165-66
May 2011
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“The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style.”
– Stella Gibbons, from the foreword to Cold Comfort Farm (1964), p. 7
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“On the bus up Sixth Avenue it seemed to Alice that she had caught her life in...”
– Jane Smiley, Duplicate Keys (1984), p. 90
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“Alice hated her responses to things. Always amazed and respectful, she never...”
– Jane Smiley, Duplicate Keys (1984) p. 123
