June 2017
Day after day we wake again to find the world still here, waiting for us as we play out our own small dramas with their small triumphs and terrible heartbreaks.
- Adam Frank
7:30 AM June 30th
An existentialist, a modal realist, and an eliminative materialist walk into a bar; the bartender looks up at them and says, "Is this a joke?"
6:00 AM June 29th
There I was, hunched over office desk,
Mind an unruffled pool.
A thunderbolt! My middle eye
Shot wide, revealing - my ordinary self.
- Layman Seiken
11:30 AM June 28th
Rene Descartes walks into a bar and has a drink.
The bartender asks him, "Would you like another?"
Descartes pauses and says, "I think not," and promptly disappears.
The bartender is enlightened.
2:00 PM | June 27th
The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming.
- Freeman Dyson
7:39 AM June 27th
We all come into the story halfway through, we all catch up as best we can, and we're all gonna die before it ends.
- Peter Watts
6:30 PM June 26th
We are an echo that runs, skittering, through a train of rooms.
- Czesław Miłosz
8:00 AM June 26th
The essential experience: the body sensing itself existing; the mind going its own way.
- Charles Simic
8:00 AM June 25th
If you
held a grass blade between both thumbs
and blew hard you could blurt a shriek
out of it
- Galway Kinnell
The Seekonk Woods
12:30 PM June 24th
The temple bell stops ringing -
but the sound keeps coming
out of the flowers.
- Basho
8:00 AM June 24th
- Adam Frank
7:30 AM June 30th
An existentialist, a modal realist, and an eliminative materialist walk into a bar; the bartender looks up at them and says, "Is this a joke?"
6:00 AM June 29th
There I was, hunched over office desk,
Mind an unruffled pool.
A thunderbolt! My middle eye
Shot wide, revealing - my ordinary self.
- Layman Seiken
11:30 AM June 28th
Rene Descartes walks into a bar and has a drink.
The bartender asks him, "Would you like another?"
Descartes pauses and says, "I think not," and promptly disappears.
The bartender is enlightened.
2:00 PM | June 27th
The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming.
- Freeman Dyson
7:39 AM June 27th
We all come into the story halfway through, we all catch up as best we can, and we're all gonna die before it ends.
- Peter Watts
6:30 PM June 26th
We are an echo that runs, skittering, through a train of rooms.
- Czesław Miłosz
8:00 AM June 26th
The essential experience: the body sensing itself existing; the mind going its own way.
- Charles Simic
8:00 AM June 25th
If you
held a grass blade between both thumbs
and blew hard you could blurt a shriek
out of it
- Galway Kinnell
The Seekonk Woods
12:30 PM June 24th
The temple bell stops ringing -
but the sound keeps coming
out of the flowers.
- Basho
8:00 AM June 24th
However it is a dark and dreary day today and who am I to be frivolous under such circumstances.
- Wallace Stevens
7:15 AM June 23rd
A miracle, just take a look around:
the world is everywhere.
An additional miracle, as everything is additional:
the unthinkable
is thinkable.
- Wisława Szymborska
1:00 PM | June 22nd
I am getting incredibly high on a single, astounding fact: that it's always sunny above the clouds. Always.
- Caitlin Moran
7:30 AM June 22nd
Wouldn't we all like to avoid
being the reason for anguish, to understand
This is for the times you went through hell so someone else wouldn't have to.
- Andrea Gibson
12:30 PM June 21st
you can not remain at war between what you want to say (who you really are) and what you should say (who you pretend to be) your mouth was not designed to eat itself.
- Nayyirah Waheed
2:00 PM June 20th
I step out and suddenly notice this.
Summer arrives, has arrived, is arriving.
- Jorie Graham
7:30 AM June 20th
I have always intended to live forever;
but not until now, to live now.
- Galway Kinnell
8:00 AM June 19th
We are tendencies who tend to think we are not tendencies.
- Stonepeace
8:30 AM June 18th
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then one of them looks over at the other and says, "What the hell is water?
- David Foster Wallace
12:15 | PM | June 17th
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
- Freeman Dyson
7:59 AM June 17th
Pretend the finish line doesn't keep receding.
Lean into the pain.
You can't outrun it.
- Deborah A. Miranda
6:30 AM June 16th
here is nine o'clock, harbor wide,
and a glinting code: promise and warning
The morning's the size of heaven.
Ten thousand birds sing in the sunrise.
Ten thousand years revolve without change.
All this will never be again.
- Kenneth Rexroth
the distance between two doors
6:00 AM June 15th
We are surrounded at every instant
by sights that ought to strike the sane
unbenumbed person tongue-tied, mute
with gratitude and terror.
- Franz Wright
11:00 AM June 14th
Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
- Ray Bradbury
7:00 AM June 14th
It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real.
- Tomas Tranströmer
7:00 AM June 13th
Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary.
2:30 PM June 12th
The air is so still
That as they go off through the trees
The love songs of birds do not get any fainter.
- Galway Kinnell
7:30 AM June 12th
to say that to possess a heartbeat is not as simple
as the heart's task of saying yes yes yes to the body.
- Ocean Vuong
8:00 AM June 9th
There. There you are: inside yourself. Somewhere. Somewhere in there.
- Caitlin Moran
7:30 AM June 8th
The true self was the one you were everyday and no other. There was no secret self waiting for you somewhere. You were you. That was it.
- Smith Henderson
7:30 AM June 7th
you
see your face.
you
see a flaw.
how. if you are the only one who has this face.
- Nayyirah Waheed
6:30 PM June 6th
Yes, the empire is sick, and, what is worse, it is trying to become accustomed to its sores. This is the aim of my explorations: examining the traces of happiness still to be glimpsed, I gauge its short supply.
- Italo Calvino
8:00 AM June 6th
The internal psychological pressure to make up a story, to explain the ruins before one's eyes, is powerful indeed.
- Michael Crichton
8:00 AM June 5th
the Earth is a treasure box of people and places and song, and every day you can plunge your arms in and find a new, ridiculous, perfect delight.
- Caitlin Moran
8:30 AM June 4th
Time is not a straight line but rather a labyrinth, and if you press yourself against the wall in the right place you can hear the hurried steps and the voices, you can hear yourself walk past on the other side.
- Tomas Tranströmer
1:00 PM June 3rd
One of the most surprising facts about human beings is that we seem to require a poetic version of life.
- Diane Ackerman
8:30 AM June 3rd
If you continue lending yourself to this game, it means that you, too, are an accomplice of the general mystification.
- Italo Calvino
11:29 AM June 2nd
Always believe you can change the world - even if it's only a tiny bit, because every tiny bit needed someone who changed it.
- Caitlin Moran
8:00 AM June 2nd
some people aren't just people, but a place - a whole world. Sometimes you find someone you could live in for the rest of your life.
- Caitlin Moran
6:30 PM June 1st
Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.
- Alan Watts
7:29 AM June 1st
