When I was beginning to read I imagined
that bridges had something to do with birds
and with what seemed to be cages but I knew
that they were not cages it must have been autumn
with the dusty light flashing from the streetcar wires
and those orange places on fire in the pictures
and now indeed it is autumn the clear
days not far from the sea with a small wind nosing
over dry grass that yesterday was green
the empty corn standing trembling and a down
of ghost flowers veiling the ignored fields
and everywhere the colors I cannot take
my eyes from all of them red even the wide streams
red it is the season of migrants
flying at night feeling the turning earth
beneath them and I woke in the city hearing
the call notes of the plover then again and
again before I slept and here far downriver
flocking together echoing close to the shore
the longest bridges have opened their slender wings.
- W.S. Merwin
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“When I perform, I’m somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries.”
- Etta James
(Jan. 25th, 1938 - Jan. 20th, 2012) -
“I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me.”
- Zooey Deschanel -
Santiago, Chile. November, 2011
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Puertecillo, Chile. Incredibly Big Sur-esque.
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“I know I’m paranoid and neurotic, I’ve made a career out of it.” -Thom Yorke
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Margaret Sloan & Gloria Steinem, 1972.
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Vintage Alfa Romeo. WANT!
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Echoing Light
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“If this were so; if the desert were ‘home’; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal’s imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison.”
― Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines -
Can’t. Stop. Listening.
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being—it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
— Graham Greene -
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Mark Wahlberg for Calvin Klein (1992). I still love him. And I’m not ashamed to admit it.
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“The only thing better than singing is more singing.”
- Ella Fitzgerald
