January 2012
1 post
Watchskills
December 2011
2 posts
r.i.p. →
November 2011
7 posts
October 2011
2 posts
Watchcrazy diamond.
Among the highlights were a fragment of Thoreau's... →
July 2011
1 post
February 2011
1 post
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CziYn0n6zkI →
there was an old woman went up in a basket, seventy times as high as the moon; what she did there i could not but ask it, for in her hand she carried a broom. ‘old woman, old woman, old woman,’ said i, ‘whither, oh whither, oh whither so high?’ - ‘to sweep the cobwebs from the sky, and i shall be back again by and by.’
October 2010
1 post
June 2010
1 post
“I never before longed so much to know the names of things as during this visit...”
– George Eliot, at the seaside in the 1850s, with George Henry Lewes and his microscope. Quote found in The Bird Hand-Book by Victor Schrager and A. S. Byatt
May 2010
1 post
“The morning sky is clouding up
and what is that tree,
dressed up in white? The...”
– ‘April’ by James Schuyler, from Other Flowers published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
April 2010
1 post
“[…]
Hold out, meditate, listen.
Explore. Explore. Travel the world over....”
– From the end of Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s amazing poem ‘Zima Junction’, an ode to his birthplace in Russia.
March 2010
3 posts
“Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can...”
– W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
No problems are temporary until they are over. All problems are potentially permanent.
February 2010
3 posts
“A few years later, lying in bed with a fever, he had seen a black stick at a...”
– (John Updike)
