June 2011
21 posts
“Closing your eyes isn’t going to change anything. Nothing’s going to disappear...”
– Haruki Murakami (via salveo)… i love this….
““Between us now and here -
Two thrown together
Who are not wont to wear...”
“Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the embracing atmosphere of a high...”
– W. C. Doane (via salveo)
Ode to Things
I have a crazy,
crazy love of things.
I like pliers,
and scissors.
I love
cups,
rings,
and bowls –
not to speak, or course,
of hats.
I love
all things,
not just
the grandest,
also
the
infinite-
ly
small –
thimbles,
spurs,
plates,
and flower vases.
Oh yes,
the planet
is sublime!
It’s full of pipes
weaving
hand-held
through tobacco smoke,
and keys
and salt shakers –
everything,
I mean,
that...
The Lee Shore
“THE LEE SHORE Some chapters back, one Bulkington was spoken of, a tall, new-landed mariner, encountered in New Bedford at the inn. When on that shivering winter’s night, the Pequod thrust her vindictive bows into the cold malicious waves, who should I see standing at her helm but Bulkington! I looked with sympathetic awe and fearfulness upon the man, who in mid-winter just landed from...
“The key to compassionate action is this: everybody needs someone to be there for...”
– Pema Chödrön (via loveof2brains)
Watchwhat we do for love…..
“Only love and right thinking will bring about true revolution, the revolution...”
“War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the...”
