Monday

September 2014

Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
 - Leonard Cohen
10:30 AM Sept 30th
One day I just woke up and realized that I can't touch yesterday. So why the heck was I letting it touch me?
 - Steve Maraboli
8:00 AM Sept 30th
What do love and hate matter
when I'm here alone,
listening to the sound of the rain
late in this autumn evening.
- Dogen
4:00 PM Sept 29th
First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak.
 - Henri Nouwen
7:00 AM Sept 29th
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a 30,000 page menu and no food.
 - Robert Pirsig
8:30 AM Sept 28th
The song itself had hinges
and I was worried about the joining, the spaces in between 
the joints, the weight of each side straining them.
 - Saskia Hamilton
10:30 PM |  Sept 27th
For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is.
 - Lev Grossman
8:30 AM Sept 27th
If you really want to see why you do things, then don't do them and see what happens.
 - Michael A. Singer
2:30 PM Sept 26th
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
 - Simone de Beauvoir
8:30 AM  |  Sept 26th
It is not our job to remain whole.
We came to lose our leaves
Like the trees, and be born again,
Drawing up from the great roots.
 - Robert Bly
7:30 AM Sept 25th
The world
is flux, and light becomes what it touches.
- Lisel Mueller
8:00 AM Sept 24th
Someone inhabits my head like it's an empty house, he enters, he leaves, he bangs each door behind him, powerless I put up with this ruckus.
 - Claude Esteban
4:00 PM Sept 23rd
Around the bend of a phrase 
you return, it's dawn in a book, it's 
a garden, one can 
see everything, the dew, a moth 
on a leaf and it's you 
who rises suddenly amid the pages 
 - Claude Esteban


Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like
they're falling in love with the ground.
 - Andrea Gibson
7:30 AM Sept 22nd
We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.
 - Rebecca Solnit
8:30 AM Sept 21st
Poetry is language in orbit.
 - Seamus Heaney
10:00 AM Sept 20th
In a sense everything is dreamlike and illusory, but even so, humorously, you go on doing things.
 - Jigdral Yeshe Dorje
8:00 AM Sept 19th
How wonderfully it was all arranged that each
Of us had not too long to live. This is one
Of the main snags - the shortness of the day.
 - Annie Dillard
11:30 AM  | Sept 18th
Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, "Que pasa, baby?"
 - Jim Harrison
8:00 AM Sept 18th
When you at last begin to seize those things
which don’t exist,
how much longer will the night need to be?
 - Tess Gallagher
8:30 PM Sept 17th
Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.
 - Rebecca Solnit
1:30 PM Sept 17th
It was one of those days when you can see the ghosts of all the other lovely days.
 - Jean Rhys
8:00 AM Sept 17th
If you eat a live frog in the morning, nothing worse will happen to either of you for the rest of the day.
- William G. T. Shedd
7:00 AM Sept 16th


If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it
over?
- Robert Fulghum
6:30 AM Sept 16th
Sometimes I think that the greatest achievement of modern culture is its brilliant selling of illusions and its
barren distractions.
 - Sogyal Lakar
8:30 AM Sept 15th
Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might
still have.
 - Jerzy Kosiński
8:00 AM Sept 15th
You, if you were sensible,
When I tell you the stars flash signals,
each one dreadful,
You would not turn and answer me
The night is wonderful.
 - D. H. Lawrence
6:30 PM  |  Sept 13th
there is still
nothing that you can hear
but the cold creek moving
over the old pebbles
and across the field and into
another year.
 - Mary Oliver
6:00 AM Sept 12th
These two feelings, this knowledge of a world so awful, this sense of a life so extraordinary - how am I to
resolve them?
 - Richard Flanagan
3:00 PM Sept 11th
As children, we played hide and seek with one another, as adults with ourselves.
 - Yahia Lababidi
8:30 AM Sept 11th


 Poetry is the sound of summer in the rain and of people laughing behind closed shutters down a narrow
street.
 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
7:30 AM Sept 10th
As if the day, the night, wherever it is
I am by then, has been only a whir
Of something other than waiting.
 - Tracy K. Smith
7:00 AM Sept 10th
Each person carries a story that could be true. Each crossroad in life secretly asks the question: Who are you
really?
 - Michael Meade
9:00 AM Sept 9th
Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
 - D. H. Lawrence
7:00 AM Sept 8th
You better wake up soon, wake up
and go home.
- Shih-te
6:30 AM Sept 8th
Even so, I'm starting to like the way life tosses you around.
 - Amy Dryansky
8:30 AM Sept 7th
What can anyone give you greater than now, starting here, right in this room, when you turn around?
 - William Stafford
7:30 AM Sept 6th
There are no arrivals, no destinations; there are only sandbanks and shipwrecks; then another boat, another
tide.
 - Jeanette Winterson
7:30 AM Sept 5th
You and you and I repeat
gestures that make do when speech
has failed and talk
and talk, laughing, saying
'I', and 'I',
meaning 'Anybody'.
No one.
 - Denise Levertov
8:00 AM Sept 4th
Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open
up. Of course, it almost never does.
- Edward Gorey
7:00 AM Sept 3rd
I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.
 - Jeanette Winterson
7:30 AM Sept 2nd
There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.
 - Franz Kafka
5:30 AM Sept 1st