Sunlight streams through the windows in the concourse at Grand Central Terminal in New York City in 1954. [Read more…]
Lightly child, lightly.
May 18, 2017 by 11 Comments
Nothing ever done.
Sure, sure, sure.
Today I will walk in the sun.
I will simply walk in the sun.
~ Charles Bukowski, from “a letter to Ann Bauman,“ Screams From The Balcony: Selected Letters 1960 – 1970
Notes:
- Photo: The Sun, as of May 13, 2017 (via Nasa.gov).
- Quote & Photo Source: Thank you Dan @ Your Eyes Blaze Out.
- 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.
May 11, 2017 by 9 Comments
But words light up in the head
To take their deep place in the darkness,
Arcing quickly from image to image
Like mica catching the sun.
~ James Dickey, from “A Letter,” Falling, May Day Sermon, and Other Poems
Notes:
- Quote Source: Memory’s Landscape. Photo: Philippe conquet
- 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.
February 16, 2017 by 5 Comments
Awake —
What are these quick shots of warmth,
Fractals of forests
That wind through my limbs?
~ Alan Lightman, from Song of Two Worlds
Notes:
- Photo: via Mennyfox55. Lightman quote: Brainpickings
- 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.”
Monday Morning Wake-Up Call
February 13, 2017 by 12 Comments
Dawn is like dumping milk into an inkwell.
First, there are erratic curdles of white, then streamers.
Shade the bottle for a gray colloid, then watch it whiten a little more.
All of a sudden you’ve got day.
Then start heating the mixture.
~ Roger Zelazny, from The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth
Notes: Quote – Memory’s Landscape. Photo: Cody Cobb with Cascadia
Lightly child, lightly.
February 9, 2017 by 13 Comments
You have to be like the sun my dear.
Bright, alive, a dance in your step,
your smile reaching every corner, so radiant.
Yes you’ve got to make them wince a little bit.
~ Mavaline
Notes:
- Photo: via Mennyfox55
- 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.”
Miracle. All of It.
February 2, 2017 by 26 Comments
What would you do
if your sun told you
it was moving on to another galaxy,
a brighter one,
that it will still shine on you but only in secret bursts?
Notes:
- Amazing Photo by our very own Anneli at WordsFromAnneli with Goodbye Montana
- Poem: Boston Poetry Slam
- 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.”
- Related Posts: Miracle. All of it.
Saturday Morning
January 7, 2017 by 6 Comments
Survival often depends on a specific focus: a relationship, a belief, or a hope balanced on the edge of possibility. Or something more ephemeral: the way the sun passes through the hard, seemingly impenetrable glass of a window and warms the blanket, or how the wind, invisible but for its wake, is so loud one can hear it through the insulated walls of a house.
~ Elisabeth Tova Bailey, “The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating”
Photo: via Hidden Sanctuary
Lightly child, lightly.
September 29, 2016 by 24 Comments
How does an apple ripen?
It just sits in the sun.
~ Thomas Merton, From Merton’s Palace of Nowhere by James Finley
Notes:
- Passage from James Finley: “Merton once told me to quit trying so hard in prayer. He said, ‘How does an apple ripen? I just sits in the sun.’ A small green apple cannot ripen in one night by tightening all its muscles, squinting its eyes and tightening its jaw in order to find itself the next morning miraculously large, red, ripe and juicy beside its small green counterparts. Like the birth of a baby or the opening of a rose, the birth of true self takes place in God’s time.”
- Photograph: Patty Maher with Claire in Exhibit A
- 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.”
Good Morning
August 26, 2016 by 19 Comments
In day’s first hours
consciousness can grasp the world
as the hand grips a sun-warmed stone.
~ Tomas Tranströmer, from “Prelude,“ The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems
Notes: Photo – Howard Schatz (via Nini Poppins). Poem: the distance between two doors
