January 2012
29 posts
Maurice Sendak has to be one of the most amiable old coots in the world.
Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from...
– Tom Robbins
Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
– Walter Anderson
"To the New Year" by W. S. Merwin
With what stillness at last
you appear in the valley
your first sunlight reaching down
to touch the tips of a few
high leaves that do not stir
as though they had not noticed
and did not know you at all
then the voice of a dove calls
from far away in itself
to the hush of the morning
so this is the sound of you
here and now whether or not
anyone hears it this is
where we have come with our...
December 2011
40 posts
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I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things;...
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Let us devote to unselfishness the frenzy we once gave gold and underpants.
– Kurt Vonnegut