A Word for Living Creatures

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Journey to the past (by mog)

Journey to the past (by mog)

books
art

let go

i am learning to let go swing back and forth head back head back clouds cirrus bluebirds bluebirds in the window a song a song on repeat a song of from my mother a song i am letting go i am letting go learning to fall to roll to get back up i am learning to breathe to not clench the breath to fall roll stand back up i am learning to not fall to pieces when i hit the ground hit the ground again again and again this is how i learn to let go this is how i learn not everything gold can stay not everything comes back wants to come back should come back this is how i learn this is how i am learning learning to let go to let go of places of homes of people bluebirds in the window clouds skudding across the sky clouds building into a storm nimbus clouds letting go their burden of rain letting go as i am letting go learning to study the clouds again the lightness of being the lightness of swinging my mother’s song bluebirds bluebirds flying away home i am learning to let go no have let go of this person of you the you i loved the you who left me lying on the mat clenched breath shattering learning to get up again learning learning learning to let go of this no that moment learning to breathe again to study clouds cumulus again to swing again to sing songs again to let go of places homes things people me i am learning to let go let go

When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it–or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don’t suppose many people try to do it.

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (via prettybooks)

Writers write. No excuses.

austinkleon: Frank Sinatra tells George Michael to suck it up and embrace his success

Talent must not be wasted…those who have talent must hug it, embrace it, nurture it, and share it lest it be taken away from you as fast as it was loaned to you.

(thx @aweissman)

Fiction is different than life, because in life there is no order or meaning, while a story must have both. Art is really about giving meaning to that chaos we call reality. Although I have not myself experienced a terror attack, a few years ago it was happening a lot around me, and it did affect my everyday life and feelings. But sudden, brutal deaths are actually around all of us, anywhere, anytime—not just in Israel.

Israeli comics artist and author Rutu Modan (via gracebello)

(via brooklynmutt)

My cat knows better. She’s a good cat.

Remember to strive for the best, but it isn’t the end of the world if you don’t make it. Don’t burn yourself out striving for perfection. - Mom

My mom is a wise, wise woman.

We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People are terrified — how can you live and not know? It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don’t know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know.

Richard Feynman, born on May 11, 1918, on the role of scientific culture in modern society – timeless, remarkably timely read.

Pair with how ignorance drives science.

(via explore-blog)

moonlight

no moon tonight
last night
the night before

it is gone
it crept away
was stolen from us

stolen by it
it crunches on the moon
comes to visit

us in the night
trails its fingers
across my thigh and

i awaken
and you are you
you’re where

you’re supposed to be
the moon splayed
across your form