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A bouquet of clumsy words: You know that place between sleep and awake where you’re still dreaming, but it’s slowly slipping? I wish we could feel like that more often. I also wish I could click my fingers three times and be transported to anywhere I like.I wish that people didn’t always say “just wondering” when you both know there was a real reason behind them asking. And I wish I could get lost in the stars. Listen, there’s a hell of a universe out there. Let’s go.
e.e. cummings
SKETCHY BEHAVIORS | Jennifer Parks (Portland, OR)
We’ve been following the magical and mystical artwork of Portland artist Jennifer Parks whose drawings of witches, women, and woodland creatures bring a dark delight to our sensibilities. Not only does Jennifer create these fantastical illustrations and ceramics, but also helps to curate and organize shows at the artist run space, Pony Club in Portland. We’re excited to feature Jennifer’s art and talk to her about her influences, artistic process, and find out more what she’s up too in the rest of 2017!
Artist portrait by Richard Darbonne | Images courtesy of the artist
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what is lonelier to grieve or not love anyone enough to
— Alexis Bates, from “Lonelier,” The Lonely
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Rumi (via wordsnquotes)
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde (via quotemadness)
“My first proper girlfriend, she used to live an hour and a half away on the train, and I worked in a bakery for three years. So I’d finish and sprint to the train station. Later, I’d remember her perfume. Little things. I smell that perfume all the time. I’ll be in a lift or a reception and say to someone, ‘Alien, right?’ And sometimes they’re impressed and sometimes they’re a little creeped out. ‘Stop smelling me.’”
i’m all for language evolving and everything, but i would literally die in defense of the Oxford comma.
…nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
Vladimir Nabokov, Mary. (via wordsnquotes)
I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen - I believe that people are perfectable, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkled lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone’s ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we’ll all be wiped out by the common cold like martians in War of the Worlds. I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. I believe that mankind’s destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it’s aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there’s a cat in a box somewhere who’s alive and dead at the same time (although if they don’t ever open the box to feed it it’ll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn’t even know that I’m alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who says sex is overrated just hasn’t done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what’s going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman’s right to choose, a baby’s right to live, that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.
Neil Gaiman
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American Gods (American Gods #1)
Vincent van Gogh
Prisoners Exercising (After Dore), 1890 Skull, 1887
I enjoy controlled loneliness. I like wandering around the city alone. I’m not afraid of coming back to an empty flat and lying down in an empty bed. I’m afraid of having no one to miss, of having no one to love.
Kuba Wojewódzki (via wordsnquotes)
I’d like to be buried way out on the plains somewhere till I feel better — Wouldn’t it be great if I could do that — What is it anyway that’s in me — that inability to fit myself comfortably into the sort of places other folks fit in —
Georgia O’Keeffe, from a letter to Alfred Stieglitz featured in My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933 (via violentwavesofemotion)
I’m sick to death of being the heavy in everybody’s life.
J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey (via larmoyante)
may i ask what your favourite poem is? or even your absolute favourite line/sentence? ^^
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THIS IS SO HARD but ill make a list of my fave poems and lines and try to attach links so you can read or listen :
“Small” by Lucas Regazzi
“new york> personals> missed connections” by Megan Falley
“Conversations About Home (at a deportation centre)” by Warsan Shire
“Finally I Allow Him The Pen” by Jeanann Verlee
“Glass” by Kim Addonizio
“All I Had to Say For Myself” by Mindy Nettifee
“Your Airplanes” by Rachel McKibbens
“Blue Genes” by Marvin Hodges
“Not an Elegy for Mike Brown” by Danez Smith
“The Sciences Sing a Lullaby” by Albert Goldbarth
Unknown Title- Amal Kassir
“The Ubiquity Of The Need For Love” by Ronald Koertge
Some quotes:
“ One day, when all the continents have been buried in ocean, we’ll slowly float past each other in our little boats, hearing our own hearts in each other’s chest, and watch each other like stars we don’t know are dead.” - Zachary Schomburg, from “The Black Hole”
“ She’s like my name; I know there’s a time I didn’t have it, but I can’t actually feel what that was like.”-James Bradley, “Finally, We Agree”
“ The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don’t belong to English though I belong nowhere else” -Gustavo Perez Firmat, “Bilingual Blues”
“ I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.” -Junot Díaz, from “Otravida, Otravez,” This Is How You Lose Her
“ I’d leave the memory of you at the station, if it didn’t already know the way home.” -Iain Thomas, “The B-Train”
“ i glow the way unwanted things do ,a neon sign that reads; come, i still taste like someone else’s mouth.” -Warsan Shire
“ So this is love. So this is entropy. I’ll breakevery bone in my feet running towardthe shiny gate of it.The whole damn sky holds its breath.” -Stevie Edwards, “Offering,”
“Nobody plans to be a ghost.Later on, the young people sit in the kitchen.Soon enough, they’ll be the onesto stumble Excuse me and quickly withdraw.But they don’t know that.No one can ever know that.”-Jane Hirshfield, “Things Keep Sorting Themselves”
“ There, I’ve said it:someone I was could have loved you.”-Marty McConnell, from “Miniature Bridges, Your Mouth”
“ You have my permission not to love me;I am a cathedral of deadboltsand I’d rather burn myself downthan change the locks.”-Rachel McKibbens, “Letter From My Brain To My Heart”
“ Nobody wanted your dance,Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your flounderingdrowning life and your effort to save yourself,treading water, dancing the dark turmoil,looking for something to give.”-Ted Hughes, “Birthday Letters”
And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility. (via wordsnquotes)
Since I get asked a lot about where to learn more about the human brain and behaviour, I’ve made a masterpost of books, websites, videos and online courses to introduce yourself to that piece of matter that sits between your ears.
Books
The Brain Book by Rita Carter
The Pyschology Book (a good starter book) by DK
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
The Brain: The Story of You by David Eagleman
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge
This Is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin
The Autistic Brain by Richard Panek and Temple Grandin (highly reccomended)
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (not really brain-related, but it is single handedly the best book I have ever read)
Websites
@tobeagenius (shameless self-promotion)
How Stuff Works
Psych2Go
BrainFacts
Neuroscience for Kids (aimed at kids, but it has some good info)
New Scientist
National Geographic
Live Science
Videos & Youtube Channels
Mind Matters series by TedEd
Crash Course Psychology
SciShow Brain
Psych2Go TV
asapSCIENCE
Brain Craft
Its Okay To Be Smart
Online Courses
The Addicted Brain
Visual Perception and The Brain
Understanding the Brain: The Neurobiology of Everyday Life
Pyschology Of Popularity
Harvard Fundamentals Of Neuroscience
