February 2012
30 posts
“Only what is true will survive, and that includes the concepts you have about...”
– Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love
"All The Beautiful Flowers," by Jimmy Chen via...
To close your hands tightly is to be aware of them for once in your life. I made a fist like a dry heart. I was soaking wet.
They got on the train. They were also soaking wet. It was the end of the day, and we were going home to people we were closer to. We would gather around words and fill in patches.
It rained very hard. Our palms got wet, so we made fists. We squished fish brains and carried...
“Whatever you think you can or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic,...”
– Goethe
“You have to play a long time, to play like yourself.”
– Miles Davis
Watchtheatlanticvideo:
A Photographer’s Return to 19th-Century Tools and Life in a Cabin
John Coffer, a tintype photographer, has spent the past 25 years living a Thoreauvian existence in a cabin in New York. This beautifully shot documentary is one in a series of short films, This Must Be the Place, which explores the idea of home and the connection between people and their most personal spaces, by...
“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why...”
– Rene Daumal (via poeticulture)
“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will...”
– Henry David Thoreau
