auditory murmurs (noted)
Salvador Dali, Madonna, 1958
as though the place to rest
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men
Everything is repeated, in a circle. History is a master because it teaches us that it doesn't exist. It's the permutations that matter.
Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
Jean-Paul Sartre
walnuts and vintage cheddar, a bit
ivy grotto
the winds are gathering, trees tilt north
heating/hot water system repaired, restoration
coffee, with fragments of night dreams
an interesting day- no water, no heat, appointment cancelled, calls late, wrongs and wrongs
open champagne,light the fire, snuggle the fire,eat the one ripe avocado,a call coming in
good night
verdure
A new experience of being, a renewed rootedness in the universe, a newly grasped sense of higher responsibility, a newfound inner relationship to other people and to the human community- VH
a peaceful morning
MAN RAY
Marcel Duchamp, space writing, 1937
Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
Salman Rushdie
of late, all is surreal
MAN RAY
La grande roue, 1921
Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.
C.G. Jung
mood: Sylvia, a glass of wine
the blue between day and night
Excellence does not require perfection.
Henry James
Nigella damascena, Karl Blossfeldt (1932)
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing absurdity.
Václav Havel
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
Václav Havel
An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
Arthur Miller
The Waft of it All
Conroy Maddox, Untitled (1969)
we have lost our way
they all know
word is out
communion