January 2009
26 posts
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t...”
– Louise Erdrich (The Painted Drum: A Novel) (via thresca) (via ataraxic) (via skysignal) (via robot-heart)
Watchdocumentary:
This is the documentary on Rembrandt from the BBC’s Simon Schama’s Power of Art series.
Aside from Rembrandt’s life and times, the key artwork explored is the painting “The Conspiracy of the Batavians under Claudius Civilis.”
Here’s a sample of Simon Schama’s thoughts:
“Claudius Civilis is a painting drunk on its own wildness. It is a painting that would not just be the ruin of...
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“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via littlemiss) (via radarchive)
'Barack Obama descended from Leiden pilgrims' →
My home town!!
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“O God of our many understandings, we pray that you will…
Bless us with tears –...”
– Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire
Opening Inaugural Event Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC January 18, 2009
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Jack Kerouac's Essentials of Spontaneous Prose
love this and needed this.
radarchive:
hangmanblues:
List of Essentials
Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
Submissive to everything, open, listening
Try never get drunk outside yr own house
Be in love with yr life
Something that you feel will find its own form
Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
Blow as deep as you want to blow
Write what you want...
WatchOf all the things to make me well up, this did the trick! Yet another reason to start my own dog/elephant/unicorn sanctuary.
withoutmelissa:
Oh. oh. oh. oh.
lovepuppy:mdfsmash:brooklyngirl:
Watchum, more please.
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of...”
– Mary Anne Radmacher (via withoutmelissa)
WatchWe love Toms Shoes and clapping and stuff.