June 2012
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It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no...
– Leonard Cohen. Courtesy of Whiskey River.
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May 2012
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The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under...
– Thomas Merton
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Over all, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things that he knows of and senses in the universe. That’s what I would like to do. I think that’s one of the greatest things you can do in life and we all try to do it in some way. The musician’s is through his music.
–John Coltrane
From dustyphonica.
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113 Crickets: Spring 2012 writers: Seth Pollins →
My good friend, Seth Pollins has published an amazing short story entitled, “Ghostcatcher” as well as a couple hilarious pieces about his initiations into the culinary world (see excerpt below) in the exciting new literary periodical: 113crickets:
This Tastes Weird
I started cooking for others when I was six or seven years old. I made a hamburger for my friend Jared. It was a...
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We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive...
– Annie Dillard, For the Time Being, page 170 (Thank you, settledthingsstrange)
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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature and Selected Essays
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Living one hectic day after another in the city, you tend to look down at the...
– Haruki Murakami (With thanks to theantidote)
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Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as...
– Naomi Shihab Nye, from the Great River.
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There are those who receive as birthright an adequate or at least unquestioned...
– Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost (via schadenfreudist)
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There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the...
– Thornton Wilder (via journalofanobody)
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