February 2012
8 posts
Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I’ll meet you...
– Rumi
January 2012
42 posts
A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
– Lana Turner
Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days,...
– Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
(via auhasardrobert)
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
– Albert Camus
Day Planner (Turn Off the Alarm) →
Are you ready for your greatest challenge — learning to throttle back and enjoy skiing the Spanish way? Then stop counting the day’s vertical feet and follow this itinerary.
I am rooted, but I flow.
– Virginia Woolf
“The Four-Moon Planet.”-Billy Collins
“I have envied the four-moon planet.” — The Notebooks of Robert Frost
Maybe he was thinking of the song “What a Little Moonlight Can Do” and became curious about what a lot of moonlight might be capable of.
But wouldn’t this be too much of a good thing? and what if you couldn’t tell them apart and they always rose together like pale quadruplets entering a living room?
Yes,...
A Place to Lay My Heart →
Travel offered freedom and meant never having to commit to just one thing, or to one person…
(NYTimes.com-Modern Love)
(To read a piece of another person’s writing that so closely resembles my own heart and story causes pause…le sigh. :)
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
– Franz Kafka
No, we weren’t lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even...
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Joan of Arc: Enduring Power →
Six hundred years after her birth, Joan of Arc continues to captivate the imagination. Why? Because of her sheer awesomeness.
Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces...
– Jonathan Safran Foer