October 2018
I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.
- John Astin
7:00 PM Oct 31st
It's a perfect night for mystery and horror. The air itself is filled with monsters.
- Mary Shelley
6:00 PM Oct 31st
My mother forbade us to walk backwards. That is how the dead walk, she would say. Where did she get this idea? Perhaps from a bad translation. The dead, after all, do not walk backwards but they do walk behind us. They have no lungs and cannot call out but would love for us to turn around.
- Anne Carson
12:30 PM | Oct 31st
There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
6:45 PM Oct 30th
I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches; it must be Halloween in the sea. - Richard Brautigan
8:00 AM Oct 30th
the light falls so variously here at the end of October that nothing is whole or can be made into a whole because the cracks are too uncertain and constantly moving
- Henrik Nordbrandt
8:00 AM Oct 29th
Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving.
- Mark Twain
3:15 PM Oct 28th
The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up, as if orchards were dying high in space. - Rainer Maria Rilke
8:30 AM Oct 27th
The world's full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.
- Joseph Campbell
8:00 AM Oct 26th
Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
- Terence McKenna
8:30 AM Oct 25th
My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.
- Daniel Gilbert
12:15 PM Oct 24th
The sun is perfect and you woke this morning. You have enough language in your mouth to be understood. If we just start there, every beautiful thing that has and will ever exist is possible. If we start there, everything, for a moment, is right in the world.
- Warsan Shire
7:30 AM Oct 22nd
It's you in that body, you're the only one there. Make it a good place to be. Your body is the only real gift you get.
- Beatrix Ost
12:30 PM Oct 21st
The film of your days and nights is wound up tight in you, never to be re-run - and the occasional flashbacks are faint, blurred, unreal, as if seen through falling snow.
- Sylvia Plath
9:00 AM Oct 20th
We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.
- Dave Eggers
8:00 AM Oct 19th
It's not about you.
- Garr Reynolds
8:00 AM Oct 18th
The autumn leaves, ravaged as they are, take on the flash of tattered flags kindling in the gloom of cool cathedral caves
- Virginia Woolf
7:30 AM Oct 17th
A full stop at the end of a poem is an exclamation mark seen from above, driven into the page up to its cap with one precise blow.
- Vera Pavlova
7:30 AM Oct 16th
The first step when you fail is to step back and laugh a little bit. You're only human, you know.
- Jack Kornfield
8:00 AM Oct 15th
A bit beyond perception's reach
I sometimes believe I see
That life is two locked boxes
Each containing the other's key.
- Piet Hein
5:00 PM Oct 14th
Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.
- Carol Bishop Hipps
1:00 PM Oct 14th
I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.
- W. S. Merwin
7:30 AM Oct 12th
the world is not on the surface, it's hidden in its roots submerged in the depths of the sea.
- Clarice Lispector
8:00 AM Oct 11th
Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding. I am constantly filled with wonder at the number of things that other people do without any evident difficulty that are pretty much beyond me.
- Bill Bryson
8:00 AM Oct 10th
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
- Laurence J. Peter
7:30 AM Oct 9th
- John Astin
7:00 PM Oct 31st
It's a perfect night for mystery and horror. The air itself is filled with monsters.
- Mary Shelley
6:00 PM Oct 31st
My mother forbade us to walk backwards. That is how the dead walk, she would say. Where did she get this idea? Perhaps from a bad translation. The dead, after all, do not walk backwards but they do walk behind us. They have no lungs and cannot call out but would love for us to turn around.
- Anne Carson
12:30 PM | Oct 31st
There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
6:45 PM Oct 30th
I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches; it must be Halloween in the sea. - Richard Brautigan
8:00 AM Oct 30th
the light falls so variously here at the end of October that nothing is whole or can be made into a whole because the cracks are too uncertain and constantly moving
- Henrik Nordbrandt
8:00 AM Oct 29th
Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving.
- Mark Twain
3:15 PM Oct 28th
The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up, as if orchards were dying high in space. - Rainer Maria Rilke
8:30 AM Oct 27th
The world's full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.
- Joseph Campbell
8:00 AM Oct 26th
Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
- Terence McKenna
8:30 AM Oct 25th
My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.
- Daniel Gilbert
12:15 PM Oct 24th
The sun is perfect and you woke this morning. You have enough language in your mouth to be understood. If we just start there, every beautiful thing that has and will ever exist is possible. If we start there, everything, for a moment, is right in the world.
- Warsan Shire
7:30 AM Oct 22nd
It's you in that body, you're the only one there. Make it a good place to be. Your body is the only real gift you get.
- Beatrix Ost
12:30 PM Oct 21st
The film of your days and nights is wound up tight in you, never to be re-run - and the occasional flashbacks are faint, blurred, unreal, as if seen through falling snow.
- Sylvia Plath
9:00 AM Oct 20th
We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.
- Dave Eggers
8:00 AM Oct 19th
It's not about you.
- Garr Reynolds
8:00 AM Oct 18th
The autumn leaves, ravaged as they are, take on the flash of tattered flags kindling in the gloom of cool cathedral caves
- Virginia Woolf
7:30 AM Oct 17th
A full stop at the end of a poem is an exclamation mark seen from above, driven into the page up to its cap with one precise blow.
- Vera Pavlova
7:30 AM Oct 16th
The first step when you fail is to step back and laugh a little bit. You're only human, you know.
- Jack Kornfield
8:00 AM Oct 15th
A bit beyond perception's reach
I sometimes believe I see
That life is two locked boxes
Each containing the other's key.
- Piet Hein
5:00 PM Oct 14th
Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.
- Carol Bishop Hipps
1:00 PM Oct 14th
I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.
- W. S. Merwin
7:30 AM Oct 12th
the world is not on the surface, it's hidden in its roots submerged in the depths of the sea.
- Clarice Lispector
8:00 AM Oct 11th
Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding. I am constantly filled with wonder at the number of things that other people do without any evident difficulty that are pretty much beyond me.
- Bill Bryson
8:00 AM Oct 10th
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
- Laurence J. Peter
7:30 AM Oct 9th
There are the mud-flowers of dialect
And the immortelles of perfect pitch
And that moment when the bird sings very close
To the music of what happens.
- Seamus Heaney
9:00 AM Oct 6th
Everything monstrous happening in the world has an ancient ancestry. The monster is intrinsic while our awareness of the monster has evolved.
- Frank Cawson
9:00 AM Oct 5th
I think there are odder, deeper, more angular thoughts in your mind than you have yet let come out.
- Virginia Woolf
7:30 AM Oct 3rd
If all a man does is to watch from the shore,
Then he doesn't have to worry about the current.
But if affection has put us into the stream,
Then we have to agree to where the water goes.
- Robert Bly
1:00 PM Oct 2nd
How quickly the season of apricots is over -
a single night's wind is enough.
I kneel on the ground, lifting one, then the next.
Eating those I can, before the bruises appear.
- Jane Hirshfield
5:30 PM Oct 1st
