August 2009
14 posts
“Out here you can hear the rhythmic hum of silence. Listen, there’s music...”
– unknown
“Sometimes the visionary aspect of any particular day comes to you in the memory...”
– Gilead
“Wisdom begins in wonder.”
– Socrates
“Where do we go from here?
I’ve been trying to find out,
but I’m...”
– Jamiroquai, “Where do we go from here?”
“People should impress themselves before they impress others.”
– Mara Brock Akil
“The waves keep up their song
and although the sea has many hands,
many mouths...”
– Pablo Neruda, “Strangers on the Shore”
“Yes—the springtimes needed you. Often a star was waiting for you to notice it.
...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, The First Elegy
“This is the Hour of Lead—
Remembered, if outlived,
as Freezing persons...”
– Emily Dickinson
What we want is never simple. We move among the things we thought we wanted: a face, a room, an open book and these things bear our names— now they want us. But what we want appears in dreams, wearing disguises. We fall past, holding out our arms and in the morning our arms ache. We don’t remember the dream, but the dream remembers us. It is there all day as an animal is there under...
