“I’m dead and in hell. I’ve known that for years,” you say. / And I step quietly back into the night.
— Bianca Stone, from “Blue Jays,” The Möbius Strip Club of Grief
apologies i have burned
inside my spine
inside my spine
Oblique Strategies (subtitled Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas) - created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt and first published in 1975. Each card offers an aphorism intended to help artists (particularly musicians) break creative blocks by encouraging lateral thinking.
These cards evolved from our separate observations of the principles underlying what we are doing. Sometimes they were recognized in retrospect (intellect catching up with intuition), sometimes they were identified as they were happening, sometimes they were formulated. They can be used as a pack (a set of posibilities being continuously reviewed in the mind) or by drawing a single card from a shuffled pack when a dilemma occurs in a working situation. In this case the card is trusted even if it appropriateness is quite unclear. They are not final, as new ideas will present themselves, and others will become self-evident. - Brian Eno
(…) I want
to drift back through the black sky,
pulling stars inside my pockets on the way
back so that dark nights like this will illuminate
a path wide enough to finally allow me to see.
to drift back through the black sky,
pulling stars inside my pockets on the way
back so that dark nights like this will illuminate
a path wide enough to finally allow me to see.
— Maureen Sherbondy, from “Jupiter, Florida”
Reykjavik, Iceland
…I emerged one January / Into a different world. / It made a lot of sense, /
Hidden away, as I had been, for almost a life. / And I entered it open-eyed, the wind in my ears, / The slake of honey and slow wine awake on my tongue.
Hidden away, as I had been, for almost a life. / And I entered it open-eyed, the wind in my ears, / The slake of honey and slow wine awake on my tongue.
— Charles Wright, from Scar Tissue; “A Short History of My Life”
My heart is held inside my chest so that when it breaks,
it cannot spin off weakly into space.
it cannot spin off weakly into space.
— Carla Kirchner, from “Gravity”
harry potter and the goblet of fire (2005)
“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”
Some of y’all haven’t become so disillusioned with your own reality that you spend years of your life daydreaming about entirely made up worlds and people and it shows
take chances with people. if you want to get closer to them, make sure they know you want to spend time with them. go to have coffee with them, text them first, make them feel loved, tell them little things that you love about them. most people find it hard to make the first move, both in friendships and romantic relationships, so a lot of potential relationships never happen. life is too short. so go for it, because more often than not it can make life brighter and softer and happier.
Musée du Louvre / Musée d'Orsay | 05.17
i sit here drinking memories
entertainin ghosts/
entertainin ghosts/
— Ntozake Shange, from “for my dead & loved ones”
I’d like to think this isn’t weakness or… evasion… but a final act of kindness. I gave them their happiness.
atonement, dir. joe wright
One by one the stars fell into the sea, the sky drained of its last lights.
— Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1951-1959 (Ivan R. Dee Publisher, 2008; first published 1989)
My soul lives alone. I love only in absence of recognition or pity. Let us not do harm, but remember also that I cannot live from the depths of my heart with anyone.
— Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1951-1959 (Ivan R. Dee Publisher, 2008; first published 1989)
