Thoughts and Ideas

Just things I've seen, heard or thought about

[singlecoilpickup]

Symbolism

COVID-19 Era Definition:

Live and Let Die playing in the background as Trump tours the Honeywell factory mask production unit, after having just announced dismantling the COVID-19 task force and opening up America.

[luthienne]

Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries

[singlecoilpickup]

Look, the biggest thing we can do to solve every problem is get rid of the plague. I call it the plague.

Donald Trump

[quotemadness]

“There are people we meet in life who miss being important to us by inches, days, or heartbeats. Another place or time or a different emotional frame of mind and we would willingly fall into their arms; gladly take up their challenges or invitation. But as it is, we encounter them when we are discontent or content and they are not. Whatever they are, we are not and vice versa. Two trains going in different directions that pass for a few powerful moments at full speed, blasting noise and wind but then they are gone. Whatever serious chemistry might have been possible if, isn’t.”

— Jonathan Carroll

[nuretmen]

© Nur Uretmen

[singlecoilpickup]

The President of the United States has the authority to do what the President, has the authority to do which is very powerful.

The President of the United States (of America)

[mumbleweeds22]

I made this dude and he ain’t kiddin’

[weltenwellen]

Marina Tsvetaeva, from “Poem of the End”, Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

C. S. Lewis, from “A Grief Observed,” originally published c. 1961

[weltenwellen]

Anis Mojgani, from “Here I Am”, Songs from Under the River: A Collection of Poetry

[flor3ncia]

«In Time With You» (2011)

[singlecoilpickup]

Truth

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

cdnsongbirdme:

“We’re here, there, not here, not there, swirling like specks of dust, claiming for ourselves the rights of the universe. Being important, being nothing, being caught in lives of our own making that we never wanted. Breaking out, trying again, wondering why the past comes with us, wondering how to talk about the past at all.”

— Jeanette Winterson, from Lighthousekeeping (Harcourt, 2005)

[purplebuddhaquotes]

“Silence is also conversation.”

— Ramana Maharshi

[mumbleweeds22]

~The Missing~

Missing you is a tangible object. It is heavy. I can feel it in my hands, upon my shoulders, draped across my back as I shift the weight of this; missing you. I steel myself underneath the weight of it. And No I do not cry because I carry it. Because missing you is necessary. And missing you is also loving you. And loving you is heavy too. And I will carry both loads. Because I am very strong. Morgan Blair

[quotemadness]

“Come lay with me. I want to talk about nothing with someone that means something.”

— Unknown  

[twoheadedfawnn]

nick cave, the red hand files

[humansofnewyork]

(2/2) “He hates when I tell this story.  But he saw me for the first time in Home Depot, and he was way too afraid to talk to me.  So he got my name from a friend and sent me a message on social media.  We got pregnant one year after we met.  Fabian did everything for the baby: every meal, every feeding, every bath.  And you can absolutely tell.  Their connection is undeniable.  Just the way he looks at her.  So much awe and love.  The exact same way he looked at her on the day she was born.  He has a James Earl Jones style of parenting.  I’m always so high-pitched and chirpy, but he’s smooth and monotone and deep.  In the weeks after my cancer diagnosis, I kept noticing that he’d sit in his car after pulling into the driveway.  I’d hear the music turn off.  But he’d take several minutes to come inside.  So one day I walked out there and found him crying and praying.  He was trying to get it all out so he could be strong when he came inside.  I have girlfriends that question how their husbands feel about them.  But I never do.  Never have.  Because he lets me know every day.  He calls me every single lunch break.  And he still looks at me the exact same way that he did when we walked down the aisle.”

[singlecoilpickup]

Something beautiful and life affirming, for a change.