February 2012
22 posts
“Learning how to transform mere ignorance into mystery, simple not knowing into...”
– Tim Kreider, “In Praise of Not Knowing” for the NYT (via emotional-algebra)
“Is there anything, apart from a really good chocolate cream pie and receiving a...”
– Bill Bryson, Neither Here Nor There:: Travels in Europe (via emotional-algebra)
“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the...”
– Brian Andreas
Why I Wake Early
Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, the miserable and the crotchety— best preacher that ever was, dear star, that just happens to be where you are in the universe to keep us from ever-darkness, to ease us with warm touching, to hold us in the...
“Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding,
the two as...”
– Rumi
“I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Your heart and my heart
are very, very old friends.”
– Hafiz (via emotional-algebra)
“I believe in the pursuit of happiness. Not its attainment, nor its final...”
– Andrew Sullivan, This I Believe (via emotional-algebra)
January 2012
4 posts
2012
“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you’ll make something that didn’t exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when ...
What To Do the First Morning the Sun Comes Back
Find a clean cloth for the kitchen table, the red and blue one you made that cold winter in Montana. Spread out your paper and books. Tune the radio to the jazz station. Look at the bright orange safflowers you found last August— how well they’ve held their color next to the black-spotted cat. Make some egg coffee, in honor of all the people above the Arctic Circle. Give thanks to...
“Come to the edge.”
“We can’t. We’re afraid.”...”
– Come to the Edge- Christopher Logue (about Guillaume Apollinaire, 1880-1918)
“The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in...”
– Alberto Giacometti
December 2011
23 posts
“But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you...”
– Haruki Murakami (Norweigan Wood)
“The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not...”
– Stephen Spender
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known...”
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (via emotional-algebra)
“I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of...”
– Anne Fadiman in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (via emotional-algebra)
“Not only have I always had trouble distinguishing between what happened and what...”
– (via themanrepeller)
November 2011
48 posts
