Friday

October 2013




You're just spooked. It's Halloween; we're all kind of spooked. That's just the way it is.
 -  Matthew Leeth
6:00 AM Oct 31st


I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.
 - Robert Brault
5:00 AM Oct 30th


The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats.
 - Ray Bradbury
6:00 AM Oct 29th


The farther we've gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we've come to need Halloween.
 - Paula Curan
6:00 AM Oct 28th


Real life.
Witches: Wiccan practitioners.
Werewolves: rare strain of rabies.
Zombies: Prions/Plague.
Vampires: Hemophilia/Porphyria.
- Solange
10:10 AM Oct 26th


There is a past haunted by the future and a future tormented by the past.
 - Edmond Jabès
6:30 AM Oct 25th


Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.
 - Chuck Klosterman
6:00 AM Oct 24th


I've had it with all stingy-hearted sons of bitches.
A heart is to be spent.
 - Stephen Dunn
6:00 AM Oct 23rd


In the midst of this world
we stroll along the roof of hell
gawking at flowers
 - Issa Kobayashi
6:00 AM Oct 22nd


I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else ever has.
 - Stephen Dunn
6:00 AM Oct 21st


The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
 - J. D. Salinger
10:00 AM Oct 20th


There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.
 - Lin Yutang
10:00 AM Oct 19th


Someone I loved
once gave me a box of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.
- Mary Oliver
6:12 AM Oct 18th


let's live suddenly without thinking
 - E. E. Cummings
6:00 AM Oct 17th



Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there.
 -  Flannery O'Connor
9:00 AM Oct 16th


but we live
in the interstices, between a vacant stare and the ceiling,
Our lives remind us.
- John Ashbery
12:30 PM Oct 16th


Nobody is not a thinker. We all think all of the time, consciously or unconsciously, always and already.
 - David Miller
6:00 AM Oct 16th


The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.
 - Lauren Oliver
8:00 AM Oct 14th


Wouldn't we rather have a destiny to submit to, something that claims us, anything, instead of such flimsy choices, arbitrary days?
 - Alice Munro
8:00 AM Oct 13th


I am only a man: I need visible signs. 
I tire easily, building the stairway of abstraction.
 - Czeslaw Milosz

8:30 AM Oct 12th


Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.
 - Stephen Dunn
6:15 AM Oct 11th


All human love is a dramatic enactment of the wild, reckless, unquenchable, undrainable love that powers the universe.
 - Jeanette Winterson
8:00 AM Oct 10th


As a human being, you are perfectly imperfect, gloriously flawed, your story forever stunningly unresolved.
 - Jeff Foster
11:00 AM Oct 9th


The way people just keep living their lives because they don't know what else to do.
 - Sam Shepard
8:00 AM Oct 8th


The body is a book and we the words.
 - Michael Bazzett
2:00 PM Oct 7th


The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them.
The least we can do is try to be there.

 - Annie Dillard
8:08 AM Oct 6th


Wonder. Go on and wonder.
 - William Faulkner
9:24 AM Oct 4th