November 2015
There is no one home in the world
tonight. Everyone is out of range.
- Joyce Sutphen
8:30 PM Nov 30th
tonight. Everyone is out of range.
- Joyce Sutphen
8:30 PM Nov 30th
Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?
- Andrea Gibson
9:00 AM Nov 30th
The snow is melting
and the village is flooded
with children.
- Kobayashi Issa
10:00 AM Nov 29th
Let life live you for a while instead of trying to make yourself live life.
- Alan Watts
9:00 AM Nov 28th
Same moon you knew with its white mind watching,
same moon you walked beneath and were gone.
- Marsha de la O
8:30 AM Nov 28th
In the eternal scheme of things, we all sacrifice our lives, whether we are awake to this fact or not.
- Clark Strand
9:30 AM Nov 27th
As usual, the road led straight back to the beginning: home, country roads, the sun setting through the woods.
- Joyce Sutphen
8:00 AM Nov 26th
Life, even though it's so much faith, so much unknown, it has design. It has repetition. Conclusions are drawn.
- Patti Smith
9:00 AM Nov 25th
He who is forewarned is forearmed, and he who is four armed is half an octopus, and who wants to be that?
- Walt Kelly
12:00 PM Nov 24th
What if the Devil doesn't know he's the Devil?
- Cathrine Goldstein
Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow.
- Cheryl Strayed
Everyone's chest
is a living room wall
with awkwardly placed photographs
hiding fist-shaped holes.
- Andrea Gibson
Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?
- Andrei Tarkovsky
The world has an infinite beauty, but not, always, for us.
- Charles Wright
Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like
Our insanity is not that we see people who aren't there. It's that we ignore the ones who are.
- Andrea Gibson
If we're not careful, we are apt to grant ultimate value to something we've just made up in our heads.
- Kosho Uchiyama
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
- André Gide
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
- Charles Bukowski
- Charles Bukowski
Look up at the sky once a day.
- Kosho Uchiyama
With the air of a century past
The fallen leaves on the garden.
- Basho
The second half of my life will be wide-eyed,
fingers shifting through fine sands,
arms loose at my sides, wandering feet.
- Joyce Sutphen
The really true and interesting things are the intrigues in the background, about which not a word is mentioned.
- Franz Kafka
7:00 AM Nov 12th
When you have been
at war with yourself
for so many years that
you have forgotten why,
at war with yourself
for so many years that
you have forgotten why,
when it has been centuries
since you watched the sun set
or the rain fall, and the clouds,
drifting overhead, pass as flat
as anything on a postcard;
since you watched the sun set
or the rain fall, and the clouds,
drifting overhead, pass as flat
as anything on a postcard;
when, in the midst of these
everyday nightmares, you
understand that you could
wake up,
everyday nightmares, you
understand that you could
wake up,
you could turn
and go back
to the last thing you
remember doing
with your whole heart:
- Joyce Sutphen
8:00 AM | Nov 11th | 2015
and go back
to the last thing you
remember doing
with your whole heart:
- Joyce Sutphen
8:00 AM | Nov 11th | 2015
Listen.
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees
And fall.
- Adelaide Crapsey
What separates me from my present is like a fine mist, an intangible veil, an invisible wall. Nothing would shatter if I were to walk through it.
- Pascal Mercier
Put it this way, I give you, here, now, a magic key.
What does it open? This key I give you, what exactly
does it open? Anything, anything! But what?
- Robert Hass
Strange as it may seem today to say, the aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
- Henry Miller
You can see so far, so far,
that day and night turn simultaneous,
and all seasons of the year occur at once.
- Wislawa Szymborska
By the way, do you know the joys of being alone, walking alone, lying in the sun alone?
- Franz Kafka
Meanwhile, the mole goes on with its subterranean daydreams,
The dogs lie around like rugs
- Charles Wright
The voyage into the interior is all that matters,
Whatever your ride.
- Charles Wright
Kafka imagines a man who has a hole in the back of his head. The sun shines into this hole. The man himself is denied a glimpse of it.
- Leonard Michaels
I tried to go home again. I stood at the door to my childhood, but it was closed to the public.
- Lisel Mueller
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
- Susan Sontag
It was November - the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines.
- L. M. Montgomery
In this rustling air,
all's possible, all's unpredictable.
- Robert Lowell
