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“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.” ~ Terry Pratchett, from Reaper Man
“Black Bowl” (1907)by George Seeley Two for Tuesday: From Light to Dark and Dark to Light Within light there is darkness, But do not try to understand that darkness. Wi… more →
Lola's Curmudgeonly Musings on Life, Love & Other Trifles
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.” ~ Terry Pratchett, from Reaper Man
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wrote 2 days ago: “Black Bowl” (1907)by George Seeley Two for Tuesday: From Light to D … more →
Photos of Children From Around the World With Their Most Prized Possessions
wrote 1 week ago: Chiwa – Mchinji, Malawi I came across the following article by Amanda Gorence on my Tumblr dash, and … more →
"Bashô says the body is composed of one hundred bones and nine openings. | Within which flimsy structure the spirit dwells." ~ Nicholas Christopher, from "Midsummer"
wrote 2 weeks ago: Reblogged from theparisreview The Orphanage At the bus stop, a blind man sells c … more →
“Let me keep my mind on what matters . . . which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.” ~ Mary Oliver
wrote 3 weeks ago: “Villiers-le-Bel” (Peach Blossoms), (ca. 1887-89, oil on canvas)by Childe Hassam … more →
If only I were making this stuff up . . .
wrote 4 weeks ago: Jon Stewart Trashes Fox News For Throwing Out The Constitution: The Law Is ‘No Match For Freedom Mat … more →
"Yet we rise, hurl ourselves against the image | of this world, wanting to pierce it, to comprehend" ~ Aleida Rodríquez, from “The Gravelly Path to the Woodpile”
wrote 1 month ago: “this was the way my self felt when it started falling apart: each piece of it clipped from a … more →
Year to date . . .
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"Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction." ~ Kevyn Aucoin
wrote 1 month ago: “The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill … more →
"Blessed are the weird people, poets, misfits, writers, mystics, painters and troubadours for they teach us to see the world through different eyes." ~ Jacob Nordby
wrote 1 month ago: Stole this from Izaak Mak at I Want Ice Water: … more →
“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.” ~ Louis Adamic
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wrote 1 month ago: Stormy Seas by Jake Pike (cc) “She was feeling the pressure of the world outside … more →
“What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.” ~ Neil Gaiman
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wrote 1 month ago: I want to go here: Librairie Ptyx, Belgium Music by Belgian singer Laura Fabian … more →
“What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.” ~ Neil Gaiman
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wrote 1 month ago: I want to go here: Librairie Ptyx, Belgium Music by Belgian singer Laura Fabian … more →
“You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.” ~ Mary Oliver
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wrote 1 month ago: Male Lesser Goldfinchmatt knoth (Wikimedia Commons) Mary Oliver references Rilke … more →
"There MUST NOT be another Sandy Hook. You have a responsibility and an obligation to act now and change the laws." ~ Carrie Lendroth Battaglia
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wrote 1 month ago: This must be reblogged and passed on again and again and again, until someone, somewhere list … more →
“I feel scribbled-in. Something inattentive has barely written me in.” ~ Jorie Graham, from “High Tide”
wrote 1 month ago: Was going to post, and then, well . . . didn’t. Feeling kind of closed off. Here’s an of … more →
#safetytipsforladies: A hashtag about how tired women are of being told to do stupid, ineffective, unrealistic things to avoid being raped.
wrote 1 month ago: Just had to share this bit of genius. Not my real post. … more →
"I dwell in possibility" ~ Emily Dickinson
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wrote 1 month ago: Photo of the Day: Splash Effect, British Columbia Photograph by Rob Leslie submi … more →
“In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its night.” ~ Edmond Jabès, from The Book of Questions II, trans. Rosmarie Waldrop
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wrote 2 months ago: Pasea Sailing by crlbvi (FCC) “That’s what the world is, after all: an endless b … more →
“Thinking of you, one thinks of what you could have become. You were, and you will remain, made up of possibilities.” ~ Edouard Levé, Suicide, trans. Jan Steyn
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wrote 2 months ago: Imagine a world without hate . . . Just think how much better this world could be if we stopped slay … more →
