February 2020
Once you get
deep enough so that water
swallows light, there are fish
who dangle iridescent lures
before their toothed mouths.
- Ali Shapiro
the vale of soul making
deep enough so that water
swallows light, there are fish
who dangle iridescent lures
before their toothed mouths.
- Ali Shapiro
the vale of soul making
A year from now, everything you're stressing about won't mean a thing. Be thankful, smile more, spend more time with family and don't stress the small things. This is our one chance at life. Don't let anyone or anything take away your happiness.
- Nitya Prakash
12:00 PM Feb 28th
Lift up your dark heart and sing a song about
how time drifts past you like the gentlest, almost
imperceptible breeze.
Never forget we live in a reality where someone can be having an ongoing imaginary conflict with you in their mind. The whole time it's completely one-sided and you are utterly oblivious to it.
- Nitya Prakash
8:00 AM Feb 24th
Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism.
- Edward Abbey
9:00 AM Feb 22nd
What a pity. How the stars
and seas and rivers
in their fragile lace of fog
go on without us
morning after morning,
year after year.
And we disappear.
- Pat Schneider
8:00 AM Feb 21st
We want to grasp the heart, to hear what is beyond our hearing, but have only these words that disappear like mist from the tip of a wave, or the phosphorous trail a swimmer leaves in the sea.
- Richard Jackson
7:45 AM Feb 18th
The panther that has stalked you
since you were a child
is old now. No longer wild,
and tired of guarding the treasure
you yourself left behind -
blind and deaf, she will give it all to you
if you just let her go.
- Pat Schneider
11:00 AM Feb 17th
We need to understand the worst-case scenarios and the suffering and loss happening now, so we know what we're trying to prevent. But we need to imagine the best-case scenarios, so we can reach for them too.
- Rebecca Solnit
9:00 AM Feb 16th
Not without its charms is this terrible world, not without its mornings worth our waking.
- Wisława Szymborska
8:15 AM Feb 13th
We trade an hour of our life here or afternoon there like it can be bought back with the few dollars we were paid for it. And it is only much much later, as they are on their deathbeds or when they are looking back on what might have been, that many people realize the awful truth of this quote. Don't do that. Embrace it now.
- Ryan Holiday
4:30 PM Feb 12th
Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
- Adam Zagajewski
8:00 AM Feb 12th
Weary of all who come with words, words but no language
I make my way to the snow-covered island.
The untamed has no words.
The unwritten pages spread out on every side!
I come upon the tracks of deer in the snow.
Language but no words.
- Tomas Tranströmer
8:30 AM Feb 11th
The sun rises in spite of everything
and the far cities are beautiful and bright.
I lie here in a riot of sunlight
watching the day break and the clouds flying.
Everything is going to be all right.
- Derek Mahon
7:45 AM Feb 10th
I envy everyone secretly,
I secretly love everything.
- Osip Mandelstam
9:00 AM Feb 9th
So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.
- Stephen Chbosky
8:00 AM Feb 7th
It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.
- Bill Bryson
4:00 PM Feb 6th
We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again.
- Anne Lamott
7:00 AM Feb 6th
Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.
- D. H. Lawrence
noosphere
4:30 PM Feb 5th
I read more in the winter, write more, think more, sleep more. I don't plan any of this - rather I don't resist the seductions of darkness.
- Jeanette Winterson
8:00 AM Feb 5th
Tyrants always fear art because tyrants want to mystify while art tends to clarify. The good artist is a vehicle of truth.
- Iris Murdoch
8:00 AM Feb 4th
No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.
- Lynda Barry
8:00 AM Feb 3rd
I will take my existential angst
straight up,
no chaser.
- Douglas Imbrogno
1:30 PM Feb 2nd
You made a ceremony out of holding your head in your hands because, you said, it could not be contained in itself.
- Rosmarie Waldrop
1:30 PM Feb 1st
