Being Zipper Zephyr

trying to live simply even when life has other plans

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Most geniuses are either really busy or really dead.

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6 x 8", 15 x 21 cm, mixed media on paper, 2012

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Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium by Maria Sibylla Merian

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Tears mess up your make-up.

Julia Child

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how I wish I could be more like me 

when I didn't have to worry about myself

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How many rules am I to break before you understand that your double standards don't mean shit to me?

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The Letter

I’m not feeling strong yet, but I am taking good care of myself. The weather is perfect. I read and walk all day and then walk to the sea. I expect to swim soon. For now I am content. I am not sure what I hope for. I feel I am doing my best. It reminds me of when I was sixteen dreaming of Lorca, the gentle trees outside and the creek. Perhaps poetry replaces something in me that others receive more naturally. Perhaps my happiness proves a weakness in my life. Even my failures in poetry please me. Time is very different here. It is very good to be away from public ambition. I sweep and wash, cook and shop. Sometimes I go into town in the evening and have pastry with custard. Sometimes I sit at a table by the harbor and drink half a beer.

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 Curiosity has officially completed her first drive. 

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when you were young you were the king of carrot flowers and how you built a tower tumbling through the trees in holy rattlesnakes that fell all around your feet