March 2012
27 posts
February 2012
30 posts
“Why did he write to her,
“I can’t live without you”?
And why did she write to...”
– Carl Sandburg (via mocasia)
“You will build a body of work, but you will also build a body of affection, with...”
– Robert Krulwich (via brainpickings)
I don’t just fall in love with the people I work with, but all the people I meet.
(via carmen-chan)
“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)