Oh, come on. You smiled. Admit it.
Source: thisisnthappiness
5:00 PM Bell!
March 19, 2021 by 16 Comments
It’s been a long day…
November 10, 2020 by 22 Comments
Put some honey and sea water by your bed.
acknowledge that your being needs sweetness and cleansing.
that it is sore.
that you are soft.
— Nayyirah Waheed, “orishas” in “Nejma”
Notes: Prose – thank you Beth @ Alive @ All Channels. Photo Source.
T.G.I.F.: It’s Been A Long Week
April 24, 2020 by 13 Comments
Go wreck yourself once more against the day
and wash up like a bottle on the shore,
lucidity and salt in all you say.
— David Mason, from “Another Thing,” Sea Salt, Poems of a Decade: 2004-2014
Notes: Poem via The Vale of Soulmaking. Photo: (via Your Eyes Blaze Out)
It’s been a long day
October 30, 2019 by 16 Comments
“Tomorrow’s a brand new day. Never been touched.”
~ Guzmin (Doorman), Modern Love S:1 – E1, When the Doorman is Your Main Man.
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It’s been a long day
September 18, 2019 by 31 Comments
I remember, I remember … I closed my eyes. Eyelids are really just flesh curtains. Your eyes are always “on,” always looking; when you close them, you’re watching the thin, veined skin of your inner eyelid rather than staring out at the world. It’s not a comforting thought. In fact, if I thought about it for long enough, I’d probably want to pluck out my own eyes, to stop looking, to stop seeing all the time. The things I’ve seen cannot be unseen. The things I’ve done cannot be undone.
~ Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.
Photo: Mulholland Dr. 2001 (Naomi Watts) via i wanna see your eyes. Related Posts: It’s been a long day
It’s been a long day
August 22, 2019 by 25 Comments
Welcome to the world of reality — there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth — actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested… True heroism is you, alone, in a designated work space. True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care — with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.
— David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
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Lightly child, lightly
August 1, 2019 by 13 Comments
Often I imagine the earth
through the eyes of the atoms we’re made of—
atoms, peculiar
atoms everywhere—
no me, no you, no opinions,
no beginning, no middle, no end,
soaring together like those
ancient Chinese birds
hatched miraculously with only one wing,
helping each other fly home.
~ Dan Gerber, “Often I Imagine the Earth” in Sailing through Cassiopeia
Notes:
- Poem – thank you The Hammock Papers. Photo: Curtis Moffat Study, Woman Sleeping (CA. 1920) via see more
- Post Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.”
It’s been a long day
July 25, 2019 by 22 Comments
Someone’s life,
their attainments
(forgetting that nine-tenths of it is lived on the inside)…
~ A. K. Benjamin, Let Me Not Be Mad: My Story of Unraveling Mind (Dutton, June 11, 2019)
Photo by Jamie Schafer via (aberrant beauty). Related Posts: It’s been a long day
Lightly child, lightly
July 25, 2019 by 18 Comments
i will wade out
till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers
I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness
in the sleeping curves of my body
~ e. e. cummings, from “Crepuscule” in Dreams in the Mirror: A Biography of E.E. Cummings by Richard S. Kennedy
Notes:
- Poem – thank you Beth @ Alive on All Channels. Photo credit.
- Post Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.”
It’s been a long day
June 5, 2019 by 25 Comments
“I surrender,” I said, first under my breath. Then again, a little louder, “I surrender.” I saw a bird, and another one. Objectively, I was in a beautiful place. Objectively, my body had been strong enough to take me out here. It was the subjectivity, the comparison with where I thought I should be, that hurt. “I surrender.” I didn’t need an answer. I just needed to breathe. To, once again, find meaning in the simplest moments.
~ Eva Hagberg Fisher, How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship. (HMH Books. February 4, 2019)
Notes: Photo by Alexandra C. Axelina via EyeEM (via Mennyfox55). Related Posts: It’s been a long day
Driving I-95 N. Above the World.
May 23, 2019 by 18 Comments
Step out of the office. 15 hours and counting…
A slow walk down an empty hallway,
and a slower walk to an empty garage.
Ride home.
8:15 pm, cruising up I-95 North.
Traffic, frictionless.
Waze est. of travel time: 23 minutes.
David Crosby, “Carry Me” is on repeat.
Carry me, carry me
Carry me above the world
Carry me, carry me, carry me.
Waze: 10 minutes to Home.
Body races ahead
and eases into bed
slides under the covers
sheets, fresh, cool
seconds drip, unhurried
in ether, adrift, rising
above the world
Home, Home at last.
Notes:
- Inspired by – “When we release that striving for somewhere and something else, we come home.” By Karen Maezen Miller, from Interview with Karen Maezen Miller (via Mindfulbalance)
- Portrait: Chen Kaige by Nitin Vadukul (via Your Eyes Blaze Out)
It’s been a long day
March 20, 2019 by 13 Comments
I am only a little better at giving in than I used to be,
at slowing down,
at sitting still.
But progress is progress.
~ Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
Notes:
- Photo of Pam Houston.
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It’s been a long day
March 5, 2019 by 15 Comments
Why all this huffing and puffing,
as though you were carrying a big drum
and searching for a lost child.
~ Chuang Tzu, (369 BC – 286 BC) from The Complete Works Of Chuang Tzu Translated by Burton Watson
Notes:
- Photo: nini poppins. Quote: Thank you Beth @ Alive on All Channels
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It’s been a long day
February 26, 2019 by 30 Comments
I remembered the fearless, confident boy I used to be back then…I didn’t miss him. I only, sometimes, missed the high spirits that often used to seize me when I was ten. Would there ever be an event in my life that would catapult me back into that ecstatic, silly lightheartedness, even if only for a moment?
~ Benedict Wells, The End of Loneliness: A Novel (Penguin Books, January 29, 2019)
Notes:
- Photo: Getty Images (via Hammock Papers)
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It’s been a long day
February 21, 2019 by 22 Comments
What? What are you thinking?
Sorry, sorry, I’m just trying to think of—of things I’ve given up on.
No. I can’t think of anything.
~ Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?: A Novel
Notes: Photo: poppins-me
It’s been a long day
January 10, 2019 by 32 Comments
Human life is a kind of myopia, everyone walking around, seeing only what’s in front of them, or not even that—passing each other by, embroiled in our little dramas to such an extent that we miss out on everything; making big what is small.
~ Sheila Heti, Motherhood: A Novel (Henry Holt and Co., May 1, 2018)
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It’s been a long day
December 5, 2018 by 16 Comments
Sometimes
everything
seems
so
oh, I don’t know.
–Joe Brainard, “Poem” from The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard
Notes: Poem – Thank you Beth @ Alive on All Channels. Photo by damian hovhannisyan (via see more)
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