February 2012
When we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and when we no...
– Wendell Berry
COOL BLOG: Six types of Love →
notveryraven:
Eros
a passionate physical and emotional love based on aesthetic enjoyment; stereotype of romantic love
Ludus a love that is played as a game or sport; conquest; may have multiple partners at once
Storge an affectionate love that slowly develops from friendship, based…
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the...
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The lovers wait to lose their balance. They would dive
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Someday, somewhere — anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and...
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After what had happened in my life, I was torn between being highly suspicious...
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I wondered if I could spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to...
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wabi-sabi
growing-orbits:
asymmetry, asperity, simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy and appreciation of the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and processes—”if an object or expression can bring about, within us, a sense of serene melancholy and a spiritual longing, then that object could be said to be wabi-sabi.”
(with thanks to rabbit-light)
I’m totally crazy, I know that. I don’t say that to be a smartass, but I know...
– Maurice Sendak (via libraryland)
&etc: A Personal Conversation Amongst Trees, pt.1 →
flighttowardtheragingsea:
(David & Quinn sit in a tree, picking at pine needles as other trees slowly move around them, a la Dunsinane. They may or may not start dancing as the scene progresses.)
David: So what’s the deal? Talk to me.
Quinn: I don’t know that I can. I don’t know that talking, really, ultimately, is…
When I thought of daughters
I wasn’t expecting this
but I like this more.
I...
– Michael Ondaatje, from “To a Sad Daughter” (via growing-orbits)
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I...
– Franz Kafka (via thechocolatebrigade)
There is always one person you love who becomes that definition. It usually...
– Chuck Klosterman (via cite-belle)