May 2018
The world seems a complete nightmare at times; nothing that could happen would be surprising. I wonder if there will ever come a time when we shall look back and find that the period we are living through seems quite unreal in retrospect.
- T. S. Eliot
7:30 AM May 31st
Creation isn't imagination, it's taking the great risk of grasping reality.
- Clarice Lispector
6:45 AM May 30th
But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road - there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
7:30 AM May 29th
The human skin is an artificial boundary: the world wanders into it, and the self wanders out of it, traffic is two-way and constant.
- Bernard Wolfe
8:00 AM May 28th
You will need other people, and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.
- Jamie Tworkowski
8:00 AM May 26th
This is a day.
This is a moment
in a day. This
is the point of
intersection of
a moment in a day.
This is its noise.
This is a series
of flashes.
- Maurice Scully
1:00 PM May 25th
You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
- Neil Gaiman
1:00 PM May 24th
Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?"
- Kathryn Stockett
6:30 AM May 23rd
Wanting to be that place where inner
and outer meet, this morning
I'm listening to the river inside,
also to the river out the window
- Margaret Gibson
memory's landscape
7:45 AM May 22nd
There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.
- Dean Young
8:00 AM May 21st
And there is the silence of this morning
which I have broken with my pen,
a silence that had piled up all night
like snow falling in the darkness of the house -
the silence before I wrote a word
- Billy Collins
8:30 AM May 19th
Rise up, then.
Mend your ways, start seeing what you are instead of calculating what you should become.
- Franz Kafka
7:00 AM May 18th
who among us can imagine ourselves unimagined?
- Lucille Clifton
8:30 AM May 16th
The south wind is warm;
The sun shines peacefully;
The birds warble their glad songs.
Spring blossoms in every treetop.
- Jakushitsu
7:45 AM May 15th
there is something you absolutely need to say. No one is asking you to say it. You know that, and yet here you are, an army ready to do battle with the forces of silence.
- Kim Addonizio
8:30 AM May 14th
Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
- Anne Lamott
12:30 PM May 13th
Choose a few childlike accouterments to remind you of the irreverent, uninhibited, joyous side of life.
- Alan Fletcher
8:30 AM May 13th
It isn't fame or failure
just so many books to read
so many words to write
and the backyard garden is
Paradise. I could spend
all day naming things and all night
breaking promises
- David Meltzer
9:00 AM May 12th
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds.
- Thomas Merton
7:30 AM May 11th
There is no other life than this. You would not have stumbled into the vastly imperfect, beautiful, impossible present.
- Dani Shapiro
8:30 AM May 10th
You are not your story.
They are not your story about them.
The world is not your story about the world.
- Adyashanti
12:30 PM May 9th
The intellect has a peculiarly disquieting quality in it. It raises questions enough to disturb the serenity of the mind, and it is too frequently unable to give satisfactory answers to them.
- D. T. Suzuki
9:00 AM May 9th
What's next, you ask yourself.
You ask it ten thousand times.
- Roo Borson
10:30 AM May 7th
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
- Harold S. Kushner
8:15 AM May 6th
And oh, the oh my nape of the neck. The up-swept oh my nape of the neck. I could walk behind anyone and fall in love. Don't stop. Don't turn around.
- Dorianne Laux
11:00 AM May 4th
for each of us there is
some small sound like an unseen bird or
a red bike grinding along the gravel path
that could wake us, and take us home.
- Dorianne Laux
memory's landscape
12:30 PM May 3rd
There are a thousand miles - I would say, of mist - between us. That we can hear each other at all is the extraordinary power of language.
- George Oppen
8:00 AM May 2nd
If trees could speak they wouldn't.
- Dorianne Laux
7:30 AM May 1st
- T. S. Eliot
7:30 AM May 31st
Creation isn't imagination, it's taking the great risk of grasping reality.
- Clarice Lispector
6:45 AM May 30th
But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road - there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
7:30 AM May 29th
The human skin is an artificial boundary: the world wanders into it, and the self wanders out of it, traffic is two-way and constant.
- Bernard Wolfe
8:00 AM May 28th
You will need other people, and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.
- Jamie Tworkowski
8:00 AM May 26th
This is a day.
This is a moment
in a day. This
is the point of
intersection of
a moment in a day.
This is its noise.
This is a series
of flashes.
- Maurice Scully
1:00 PM May 25th
You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
- Neil Gaiman
1:00 PM May 24th
Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?"
- Kathryn Stockett
6:30 AM May 23rd
Wanting to be that place where inner
and outer meet, this morning
I'm listening to the river inside,
also to the river out the window
- Margaret Gibson
memory's landscape
7:45 AM May 22nd
There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.
- Dean Young
8:00 AM May 21st
And there is the silence of this morning
which I have broken with my pen,
a silence that had piled up all night
like snow falling in the darkness of the house -
the silence before I wrote a word
- Billy Collins
8:30 AM May 19th
Rise up, then.
Mend your ways, start seeing what you are instead of calculating what you should become.
- Franz Kafka
7:00 AM May 18th
who among us can imagine ourselves unimagined?
- Lucille Clifton
8:30 AM May 16th
The south wind is warm;
The sun shines peacefully;
The birds warble their glad songs.
Spring blossoms in every treetop.
- Jakushitsu
7:45 AM May 15th
there is something you absolutely need to say. No one is asking you to say it. You know that, and yet here you are, an army ready to do battle with the forces of silence.
- Kim Addonizio
8:30 AM May 14th
Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
- Anne Lamott
12:30 PM May 13th
Choose a few childlike accouterments to remind you of the irreverent, uninhibited, joyous side of life.
- Alan Fletcher
8:30 AM May 13th
It isn't fame or failure
just so many books to read
so many words to write
and the backyard garden is
Paradise. I could spend
all day naming things and all night
breaking promises
- David Meltzer
9:00 AM May 12th
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds.
- Thomas Merton
7:30 AM May 11th
There is no other life than this. You would not have stumbled into the vastly imperfect, beautiful, impossible present.
- Dani Shapiro
8:30 AM May 10th
You are not your story.
They are not your story about them.
The world is not your story about the world.
- Adyashanti
12:30 PM May 9th
The intellect has a peculiarly disquieting quality in it. It raises questions enough to disturb the serenity of the mind, and it is too frequently unable to give satisfactory answers to them.
- D. T. Suzuki
9:00 AM May 9th
What's next, you ask yourself.
You ask it ten thousand times.
- Roo Borson
10:30 AM May 7th
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
- Harold S. Kushner
8:15 AM May 6th
And oh, the oh my nape of the neck. The up-swept oh my nape of the neck. I could walk behind anyone and fall in love. Don't stop. Don't turn around.
- Dorianne Laux
11:00 AM May 4th
for each of us there is
some small sound like an unseen bird or
a red bike grinding along the gravel path
that could wake us, and take us home.
- Dorianne Laux
memory's landscape
12:30 PM May 3rd
There are a thousand miles - I would say, of mist - between us. That we can hear each other at all is the extraordinary power of language.
- George Oppen
8:00 AM May 2nd
If trees could speak they wouldn't.
- Dorianne Laux
7:30 AM May 1st
