Monthly Archives: October, 2013

Can’t Believe It

Hannalee Open spaces,sing and shout Your jailbird is breaking out with the greatest of ease You can do what you please Now you can’t believe it More from Hannalee Youtube Post by Eratosthenesvideo

In the Healing Garden

Kelly Price Just above the deadly nightshade Three long spider threads float. Each one, anchored on a nearby tree branch, Has been abandoned by it’s industrious creator For something Other. Yet, they celebrate their uselessness In the most regal way possible; Waving their soft, silken arms in the breeze, They send undulating shimmers of light …

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The Life of Pi

Yann Martel To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation. Find The Life of Pi at Goodreads

Gravity Glue

Michael Grab Over the past few years of practicing rock balance, simple curiosity has evolved into therapeutic ritual, ultimately nurturing meditative presence, mental well-being, and artistry of design. –Michael Grab View more sculptures by Michael Grab and Gravity Glue

The Book War

Wang Ping I discovered “The Little Mermaid” in 1969. That morning, when I opened the door to light the stove to make breakfast, I found my neighbor reading under a streetlight. The red plastic wrap indicated it was Mao’s collected work. She must have been there all night long, for her hair and shoulders were …

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Fish and Whistle

John Prine Father forgive us for what we must do You forgive us and we’ll forgive you We’ll forgive each other till we both turn blue Then we’ll whistle  and go fishing in heaven For Dave More about John Prine Youtube Post by Worldsgreatestmusic

Healing Quote of the Day

Ignorance is excusable and can easily be remedied.  Fear is only natural when one is lost in the forest.  But the anger?  And the enmity and epithets?  And all the unkind condemnation and infliction of harm?  Can’t we figure out how to dispense with that?  Has it ever been productive or useful in any way …

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Little House in the Big Woods

Laura Ingalls Wilder She thought to herself, “This is now.”  She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now.  They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now.   Find Laura Ingalls Wilder on Goodreads

With a Heart of Gold

Willie Cole With a Heart of Gold is one of Willie Cole’s 3 dimensional art installations using recycled women’s shoes. The multiplication of a single object has become the driving aesthetic of my sculptural work.  I think of myself as creating the same way nature does: through cell replication and multiplication.  I tell myself that …

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Why I’m Here

Writer, singer and songwriter, Jessie Veeder, shares why her family ranch will always be home Jessie Veeder We were out late last night working cattle. And by late, I mean after dark. And by after dark I mean, a sliver of a moon, a thousand stars, 50 head of black cattle, five people and one flashlight. …

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