The Orris

Where Culture Roots & Flowers

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Loving these Maine inspired T-Shirts from aphotic-toll:

T-Shirt line for Summer 2013. Top: “Katahdin Roots” (black), center left: “Plaque” (black), center right: “Beacon” (white), bottom: Katahdin Roots (white)

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Revelation

Most things change, leave shards. The spirit-letter thing stays hard.

-Guy Rotella

Illustration: Bryan Ramey 

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Morally Repugnant by David Byrne, from his 2006 book of “mental maps of imaginary territory”, Arboretum.

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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"Sea Lions; Astoria, Oregon" by Christopher Ives.  See more of his photography and read an interview with the artist at The Orris. 

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Looking at You, Twenty-Four Years On

We remember imperfectly, thank God;

you across to me; me across to you.

Still some measure of sympathy, I guess:

parity, we realized early on,

is one sure recipe for disaster — . . . 

. . . Read more at theorris.com

-Jefferson Riordan 

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"He's a Vampire" - Joel Brown

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It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons. The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.

Matilda; Roald Dahl (via mylittlebookofquotes)

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Reflections from the MLA

Buzzwords assembled together, mapping out the rhizomatic connections and correspondences, the relational dynamics. 

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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

Maya Angelou

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