June 2023

When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been.

We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.
 - Mark Strand
12:30 PM June 29th

Why Bother
Because right now there is someone

Out there with

a wound in the exact shape

of your words.
 - Sean Thomas Dougherty
2:15 PM June 28th

Passion is terrifying, it can rock you, change you, bring your head under, as when a wind rises from the bottom of the sea, and you're out there in the craft of your mortality, alone.
 - James Baldwin
7:15 PM June 26th

Ars Poetica
For a while I climbed the ladder,
not realizing I'd placed it
against the wrong house. The window
I tried to look into was a mirror.
I fell backward into the world.
 - Stephen Dunn
9:00 AM June 23rd

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
 - George Santayana
1:30 PM June 22nd

Moon, plum blossoms,
this, that,
and the day goes.
 - Kobayashi Issa
12:45 PM June 21st

If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
 - Cormac McCarthy
1:00 PM June 14th

When you are dead, you don't know that you are dead. It's pain only for others. It's the same thing when you are stupid.
 - Richard Feynman
12:30 PM June 14th

What you deny to others will be denied to you, for the plain reason that you are always legislating for yourself; all your words and actions define the world you want to live in.
 - Thaddeus Golas
12:00 PM June 13th

Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?
 - Douglas Adams
1:39 PM June 12th

The end of the world had already occurred. How long ago was that. I don't know. It is not a function of knowledge. It is in a special sense that the world ends. You have to keep living.
 - Jorie Graham
2:00 PM June 9th

Heaven and Earth give themselves. Air, water, plants, animals, and humans give themselves to each other. It is in this giving-themselves-to-each-other that we actually live. Whether you appreciate it or not, it is true.
 - Kōdō Sawaki
12:30 PM June 8th

I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.
 - C. S. Lewis
9:30 AM June 7th

It was a delightful June morning. The sun played on the waters of the river and brushed the dewy grass with its rays. The river and the meadow were strewn with rich diamonds of light.
 - Anton Chekhov
8:55 AM June 6th

Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
 - Douglas Adams
9:30 AM June 2nd