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[dogfitch]

Ray Bradbury - Dandelion Wine

[weltenwellen]

Buttercream Joy Sullivan

[weltenwellen]

Mary Oliver, from “Straight Talk from Fox”, Red Bird

[archbudzar]

the light always returns

[havingapoemwithyou]

The Suitor by Jane Kenyon

[oldpaintings]

After Rehearsal, c.1922 by Annie Rose Laing (Scottish, 1869--1946)

[nevver]

Last light, Mary Mattingly

[weltenwellen]

Sally Wen Mao, from “Anna May Wong Dreams of Wong Kar-Wai”, Oculus

[virusmeadow]

“I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.”

— Jeff Buckley

[havingapoemwithyou]

What I Like About Poetry by Ellen Bass

[existential-celestial]

“A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.”

— East of Eden, John Steinbeck

[wovi]

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plath

[tallahasseemp3]

"Can the absence of words tell a story? Like a pattern in lace, the holes as important as the threads?"

Eden Robins, Remember You Will Die

[oshadefiant]

ghost

[urgetocreate]

Gordon Hunt (British b. 1958), Into the Blue, 2023, Acrylic on canvas

[elwenyere]

-- Ted Chiang, from "Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art"

[oldshrewsburyian]

I'm so glad they got Ted Chiang -- a wonderful writer of science fiction and thinker about technology, in my opinion -- to write this essay. My favorite line was this:

Generative A.I. appeals to people who think they can express themselves in a medium without actually working in that medium.

[soracities]

Simone Weil, from First and Last Notebooks (trans. Richard Rees) [ID'd]