It's a Librarian Thing

Libraries, Old-fashioned Novelties, Poems, Written Prose, & Anything else that catches my fancy...[also, my name isn't really Marian, but I really am a Librarian]

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Dorianne Laux, “Dust” from What We Carry. Copyright © 1994 by Dorianne Laux.

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Image by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images

If the name of this year’s U.S. Poet Laureate sounds familiar, that could be because Joy Harjo was also last year’s pick for the job. In a statement announcing the reappointment, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden called Harjo “an inspiring and engaging poet laureate,” who would “help the Library showcase Native poets from coast-to-coast.”

Hear Harjo read her poem “Perhaps the World Ends Here”

– Petra

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“We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.”

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This sacrifice is necessary and will even lead to good on many levels if only, when it is all over, we don’t forget we are fundamentally vulnerable and that our actions have consequences.

Stay Home, They Told Us… Diary of an Italian Editor: Sara Reggiani on Life in Quarantine

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In almost every major literature there are works that make you love being human, and make you love and revere the humanity of other people. That is the great potential of any art.

Marilynne Robinson (via austinkleon)

I recently read her inimitable novel Gilead and I can’t stop thinking about it. I absolutely loved it and it was exactly the right book for me at the right time.  President Obama was onto something with loving this book as he does.

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Rockwell Kent , Moonlight in the Adirondacks, 1960.Oil on Panel

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Oh, Vermont should be beautiful this time of the year, with all that snow.

White Christmas (1954) dir. Michael Curtiz

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This movie is utter perfection.

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@nytimes 

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from Stebbin’s Gulch by Mary Oliver

to descend and to be beautiful while it does so; as for purpose there is none, it is simply one of those gorgeous things that was made to do what it does perfectly and to last, as almost nothing does, almost forever.

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The procession of the months: the verses by Beatrice Crane; the designs by Walter Crane, [1889].

Typ 8302.89.10

Houghton Library, Harvard University

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WHEN HENRY JAMES, of all people, was saying goodbye once to his young nephew Billy, his brother William's son, he said something that the boy never forgot. And of all the labyrinthine and impenetrably subtle things that that most labyrinthine and impenetrable old romancer could have said, what he did say was this: "There are three things that are important in human life. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind."

Frederick Buechner 

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Avett Brothers - High Steppin’

It took me a few listens and viewing of the video but this song is stuck in my guts now

[marian-the-librarian]

I dig this new song so much.

The best beggars are choosers The best winners are losers The best lovers ain't never been loved And first place ain't easy The hard part is believing The very last word is love I'm a-high steppin', high bettin' Love givin', I'm a-love gettin' I'm a stranger, I love stretchin' out my wheels Overnightin' on the desert strip Makin' time and losin' grip Drivin' circles in the canyons of my mind

[cinematapestry]

“We haven’t located us yet.”

-The Darjeeling Limited (2007) dir. Wes Anderson

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Storytelling always has been, and always will be, one of humanity’s greatest tools for survival.

Rachel Held Evans, Inspired (via listentothestories)

[observando]

What a comfort to know that God is a poet.

Rachel Held Evans (via observando)

You will be missed.