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- Source: itspeteski
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July 20, 2017 by 14 Comments
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July 12, 2017 by 18 Comments
Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night.
Notes:
- Photo: Viktoria Kollerova (Slovakia) via Journal of a Nobody. Quote: via Canadian Songbird
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June 20, 2017 by 9 Comments
I just keep taking the next step knowing there’s no call for standing in the crowd and recounting my failures, there’s no retribution that demands I shrug off the notice of the works of my hands. There’s no need to deny or lessen the good by stepping back into my wanderings to tell of the bad. There’s grace in the ordinary life I live that just needs to live, knowing it’s all miracle, all of this beautiful stuff every morning. All the days long.
~ Lisa Tindal, from “The Essence of Days”
(By one of our very own WordPress bloggers at the handle: Quiet Confidence)
Notes:
- Photo by Joanna Jankowska – “Silence the real me” (via Literary Orphans)
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June 7, 2017 by 18 Comments
It’s worth mentioning that this is my edit. Of the roughly eight million words handwritten or typed into my diary since September 5, 1977, I’m including only a small fraction. An entirely different book from the same source material could make me appear nothing but evil, selfish, generous, or even, dare I say, sensitive. On any given day I am all these things and more: stupid, cheerful, misanthropic, cruel, narrow-minded, open, petty—the list goes on and on…It wasn’t easy revisiting what are now 156 volumes of my diary.
I broke the job up—a month or two per day—but after reading about me, I’d have to spend the rest of the day being me. I don’t know that I’ve ever done anything quite so exhausting.
~ David Sedaris, in his Introduction to his new book “Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)” (Little, Brown and Company, May 30, 2017)
Notes:
- Photo of David Sedaris from The Odyssey
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May 24, 2017 by 21 Comments
Don’t be afraid to suffer—take your heaviness
and give it back to the earth’s own weight;
the mountains are heavy,
the oceans are heavy.
– Rainer Maria Rilke, from The Poetry of Rilke; “Sonnets to Orpheus”
Notes:
- Photo: A man swims in the Maschsee lake in Hanover, Germany, on Monday. (Julian Stratenschulte, Agence France-Presse /Getty, May 23, 2017, wsj.com)
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May 9, 2017 by 22 Comments
People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue.
~ Isak Dinesen, from Out of Africa
Notes:
- Photo: Steve McCurry’s Blog with the Art of Friendship – boy sleeping with cow in Katmandu Nepal. (thank you Horty!)
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May 3, 2017 by 14 Comments
God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly;
first the blow,
hours afterwards the bruise.
― Walter de la Mare, from the The Return.
Notes:
- Photo: Ensdigry (via Your Eyes Blaze Out). Quotes: The Value of Soul Making
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April 27, 2017 by 14 Comments
Endurance comes only from enduring.
With a flick of the wrist I fashioned an invisible rope,
And climbed it and it held me.
— Czeslaw Milosz, from a “A Magic Mountain” in New and Collected Poems (1931-2001)
Notes:
- Photo: Rope by A Palindrome. Poem: An Itinerant Poet
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