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It’s been a long day
Here is what I love about the brain:
How it remembers.
How it sews what soft it can
into a blanket for the nights
when I am cold with trouble.
~ Sean Patrick Mulroy, from “The Offering” in Tap Lit Mag (Fall/Winter 2016)
Notes:
- Poem: Memorylandscape. Photo: Paul Apal’kin with “Way Inside“
- Related Posts: “It’s Been a Long Day“
Lightly child, lightly
In the morning
the light flickers—
every place it touches is unnamed.
I forget
my silk-spun dreams & losing heart.
I am open. I am soft.
I move into the silence
but I know I can’t stay.
— Michelle Tudor, This is Not the Place
Notes:
- Photo: NoelleBuske – “Magia” (via Mennyfox55)
- Poem: Michelle Tudor via couvertures de sérénité
- Prior “Lightly child, lightly” Posts? Connect here.
- 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.”
Lightly child, lightly
I exist.
It is soft, so soft, so slow.
And light:
it seems as though it suspends in the air.
It moves.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
Credits:
- 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.”
- Prior “Lightly child, lightly” Posts? Connect here.
- Image Source: The Sensual Starfish
Saturday Susurrus
“susurrus [soo-sur–uhs]”
— (noun) As one of the most beautiful words in the English language, susurrusis defined as a soft, murmuring sound. It resembles the rustling symphony of the fallen leaves moving across the pavement or the whispers created by the branches of the trees on a windy, autumn day. Uttering susurrus also simulates the acoustics of nature’s effect; this is one of those rare words where its aesthetic, sound and feel coincide beautifully.
Credits: Photograph: Béatrice Lechtanski via Art Propelled. Quote: Thank you Rudy @ Et in Arcadia Ego*