Life Is Good

[kitties-of-flickr]

[no title]

2003

[kyotoprotocols]

[power-chords]

Julia Vinograd.

[jordanbolton]

To The People I Pass On The Train At Night - Jordan Bolton

My first book ‘Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car’ is now available to pre-order! Get it here - https://smarturl.it/BlueSky

[barstoolblues]

this is probably the former closing dishwasher in me but few things are as personally satisfying as washing the dishes at the end of the night . something something michael chabon “either a surrealistic nightmare of the ordinary or a plunge into the warm waters of beautiful of routine” quote

[barstoolblues]

the full quote from the mysteries of pittsburgh which has nothing to do with washing dishes but nevertheless has stuck with me

[riverbird]

“It is late, but the darkness breaks open. Mercy grows in you. The green fires of night burn through the same air that lifted birds. And this is how a whole life unfolds—in minutes too painful and rich for you to bear them. Copper roofs holding sun, the smell of thyme, cements laced with rain. You were a child and then a storm. You were a garden. Even as you die you will not cease to dream.” Joanna Klink, in "The Nightfields"

[therisingfog]

[kosmogrl]

[kosmogrl]

[firstfullmoon]

Jackie Sabbagh, “Having a Great Time Being Transgender in America Lately”

[havingapoemwithyou]

i dare you by Dorianne Laux

[havingapoemwithyou]

Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale by Dan Albergotti

[primulaceas]

Naomi Shihab Nye, “Sifter.” A Maze Me: Poems for Girls

[waffle4brains]

"I got that dog in me"

The dog in question:

[sexhaver]

that Brian Eno quote about how whatever you find most repulsive about a medium (film grain, record scratches/fuzz, CDs skipping) will be the first thing you try and emulate once that medium is obsolete because it's "the sign of a moment too powerful for the medium assigned to contain it".... man.......

[funkylilpunk]

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.” -Brian Eno

[theoptia]

Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet

[weltenwellen]

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

[askebos]

“Stop thinking about saving your fragile face. Tell us your particularized world. Make up a story. Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created. We will not blame you if your reach exceeds your grasp. We will not blame you if your words go down in flames and nothing is left but the raw-scald. We will not blame you if, with the reticence of a surgeon’s hands, your words suture only the red places where blood might flow. We will not blame you because we know you can never do it properly: once and for all. Passion is never enough. Talent is never enough. Skill is never enough. But try. For our sake and yours. So. Forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don’t tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief’s wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear’s caul. You, so blessed with occasional blindness, can speak the language that tells us what only language can: how to see without pictures. We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”

— Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993