Elizabeth Scupham

“You’ve got a tear in the very fabric of reality, that’s how they keep getting in.”

[photo is “Ponyhenge” Lincoln Massachusetts]

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“Stay young, always,
in the theater of
your mind.”

—Mary Oliver

Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. [..] And still the rain beats down on the surface of the river. Every time you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That’s it. That’s my heart.

— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore

i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed”

basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.

i feel that with my dad.

“May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
~ Rabindranath Tagore

YouTube video by SaraBareillesVEVO Sara Bareilles - Salt Then Sour Then Sweet (Official Lyric Video) ft. Brandi Carlile

youtu.be/mJccPYV7UGA

@merlinslaugh.bsky.social

All right… one stick of butter is 1/2 cup. Confectioner’s sugar is corn starch and powdered white sugar, I can find the ratio if you need to mix up your own.

“I am thinking of beauty again, [..] If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you’re born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly.”

― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Be rational: chimp decision-making is guided by the strongest evidence The ability to change your mind in response to better evidence is a hallmark of human cognition. Experiments now show that chimps are capable of rational thought too.

The ability to change your mind in response to better evidence is a hallmark of human cognition. Experiments now show that chimps are capable of rational thought too

go.nature.com/3JVLhGk

Dunes by Jen Levitt

“But, in fact, impermanence is like some of the people we meet in life—difficult and disturbing at first, but on deeper acquaintance far friendlier and less unnerving than we could have imagined.”

― Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

My heart is a parachute that has never opened in time.
Andrea Gibson

Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement but upon human sensitivity. In this it is unlike all other knowledge.

Paul Brunton

Andrea Gibson :: ["Come See Me In The Good Light" streams on Apple TV beginning Nov.14th. Don't miss it.]

“You think that just because it’s already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue.”
― Milan Kundera, Life is Elsewhere

“I am trying to rekindle my feeling of fondness for the world.”
― George Saunders

“Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me.
Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.”

― Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

A sign at the water’s edge reads “THE LOOKING AT THE OCEAN CLUB MEETS HERE THURSDAYS AT 4PM.”

Thursday, 4:01pm

"Still there."
"Yep."
"Looks blue."
"It certainly does."
"Wet too."
"Totally."
"See you next week?"
“Count on it."

Purple glitter strewn on the rim of a toilet and bathroom floor.

potty training a unicorn ain’t easy

“In the beginning, there’s a blank mind. Then that mind gets an idea in it, and the trouble begins, because the mind mistakes the idea for the world.”
― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

The Felon in Chief continues to call former President Biden, “Sleepy Joe”. It’s all about the disrespect with him. Someone needs to show him these photos.

Photos courtesy of Andy Harnick

What a beautiful country this must have been once, when you could hop in a coupe [..] and drive, drive, drive, stopping to swim in a river or sleep in a grove of trees without worrying about [..] having the militia arrest you and send you to the Everglades for eternity.

― George Saunders

"Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value."

~ Arthur Miller, playwright and essayist (17 Oct 1915-2005)

Matt Wuerker, Politico