May 25, 2012

March 13, 2012

February 16, 2012

February 8, 2012
"

Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity?
Why would you refuse to give
this joy to anyone?

Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups!
They swim the huge fluid freedom.

"

— Rumi

February 7, 2012

February 2, 2012
"

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.

"

— William Gibson

January 31, 2012

January 17, 2012
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."

— Eartha Kitt

January 12, 2012
"Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the Shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."

— Kurt Vonnegut

November 26, 2011

October 27, 2011

October 27, 2011
"… It’s easy for an old man to look back and see the obvious, how wasted youth and health and safety are on the young who spurn such things, to be dismayed by the risks you took, but as a youth you do sense that life renders you powerless by dragging you back to it, breath upon breath upon breath in an endless capitulation to biological routine, and that the human will to control is as much about asserting power over your own body as exercising it on others."

— Tim Winton, in “Breath”

October 15, 2011

October 13, 2011

September 28, 2011