I can't sleep…
It all wears out.
I keep telling myself this,
but I can never believe me…
~ John Ashbery, “Down by the Station, Early in the Morning,” A Wave: Poems
Notes:
I feel my weakness summoning me
like a bed of soft grey ashes
I might crawl into.
—Marge Piercy, from “The longest night,” Moon is Always Female.
Notes:
Sleep comes its little while. Then I wake
in the valley of midnight or three a.m.
to the first fragrances of spring
which is coming, all by itself, no matter what.
My heart says, what you thought you have you do not have.
My body says, will this pounding ever stop?
~ Mary Oliver, from “An Old Story,” A Thousand Mornings
Notes:
“In the series ‘Wonderland creatures‘, French dancer Arthur Cadre photographed and performed mesmerizing body positions in natural landscapes. The images, which were shot in locations around the world, see Cadre twisting his body and transforming himself into ethereal forms that complement the backdrop. In addition to dance, he practices disciplines such as acrobatics, parkour and contortion.”
Don’t miss other Cadre’s other body position shots: Arthur Cadre Captures Twisting Body Poses In Nature
SMWI*: Saturday Morning Work-Out Inspiration
I wish to raise my hand. Well, I raise it. But who raises it? Who is the “I” who raises my hand? Certainly it is not exclusively the “I” who is standing here talking, the “I” who signs the checks and has a history behind him, because I do not have the faintest idea how my hand was raised. All I know is that I expressed a wish for my hand to be raised, whereupon something within myself set to work, pulled the switches of a most elaborate nervous system, and made thirty or forty muscles — some of which contract and some of which relax at the same instant — function in perfect harmony so as to produce this extremely simple gesture. And of course, when we ask ourselves, how does my heart beat? how do we breathe? how do I digest my food? — we do not have the faintest idea.
~ Aldous Huxley, The Divine Within
Post title inspired by Albert Einstein’s quote: “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
Notes: Photo – Maiyet. Quote: Brain Pickings