July 2022

The angels were once as plentiful
As species of flies.
The sky at dusk
Used to be thick with them.
You had to wave both arms
Just to keep them away.
 - Charles Simic
3:15 PM July 29th

What's it like raising kids in climate oblivion?

It's like talking to yellow roses
because I'll miss them when they go.
 - Michael Edwards
11:30 AM July 28th

The cardinal can sing; the wind can move the ironwood trees delicately; a child can ask a wise question - and where is your center? How can you respond?
 - Robert Aitken
12:30 PM July 27th

Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.
 - Charles Yu
3:15 PM July 26th

... and then without warning you find the solid floor is a trapdoor and you are now in another place whose geography is uncertain and whose customs are strange?
 - Jeanette Winterson
1:00 PM July 25th

Which is more puzzling, the existence of suffering or its frequent absence?
 - Franz Wright
11:30 AM July 22nd

This is the middle.
Things have had time to get complicated,
messy, really. Nothing is simple anymore.
 - Billy Collins
11:00 AM July 21st

Light staggers through the trees.
Every moment is filled with other moments.
 - Richard Jackson
8:00 AM July 21st

Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you're tired. You look like you could go on forever.
 - Leonard Cohen
12:00 PM July 20th

It's called mirror vision when we see what isn't
here. The kind of faith that fails at unexpected moments
the way a climber reaches for a hold that will never
in his life, be there. It's called despair
when we open the door of a heart that no longer exists.
 - Richard Jackson
1:30 PM July 19th

The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.
 - Jenny Offill
11:30 AM July 18th

Time offers this gift in its millions of ways,
turning the world, moving the air, calling,
every morning, "Here, take it, it's yours."
 - William Stafford

8:00 AM July 16th

wave after wave, sending
small tremors of love through your brief,
undeniable selves, into your days, and beyond.
 - Mark Strand
2:00 PM July 15th

I could feel the day offering itself to me,
and I wanted nothing more
than to be in the moment - but which moment?
Not that one, or that one, or that one,

or any of those that were scuttling by
seemed perfectly right for me.
 - Billy Collins
8:15 AM July 14th

Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Can't you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front.
 - G. K. Chesterton
12:00 PM July 13th

We get into the habit of thinking, this is the world, but that's not true at all. The real world is a much darker and deeper place than this, and much of it is occupied by jellyfish and things.
 - Haruki Murakami
12:00 PM July 11th

Why is it possible to learn more in ten minutes about the Crab Nebula in Taurus, which is 6,000 light-years away, than you presently know about yourself, even though you've been stuck with yourself all your life?
 - Walker Percy
11:30 AM July 8th

It's that hum in your left ear,
A sigh coming from deep within you,
A dream in which you keep falling forever,
The hour in which you sit up in bed
As though someone has shouted your name.
 - Charles Simic
12:30 PM July 6th

To those who do not know that the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
 - Bertolt Brecht
8:00 AM July 5th