August 2011
16 posts
“Tote that barge! Lift that bale! You have to
cross that river, jump that hedge,...”
– What You Have to Get Over by Dick Allen : The Poetry Foundation
July 2011
47 posts
“Now it’s time for a last grand mowing, and then up go the fences, tighter and...”
– Verlyn Klinkenborg: The Rural Life
Mending Fences - NYTimes.com
“…[E]ventually, we reach the time when we simply must put one foot in front...”
– SouleMama
“In so many endeavors, including writing, you are never done, and nothing is ever...”
– Free Range: Chicken Chores : The New Yorker
Susan Orlean, on chicken chores as soulcraft.
“What interests me is the conquering of the fear, the hiding, the running away...”
– Louise Bourgeois (via vineetkaur, slightlypretentious)
Thinking About: Pastry Cutters
Last night as I lay awake in that state of almost asleep, I thought of my pastry cutter. It came up at the end of a string of things that led me to think of one of my mother’s pastry cutters. She has two. One is an antique with a charming wooden handle that hasn’t aged well, causing it to slip out of place just a little. I could feel the handle roll as it does when plunged into a bowl...
“Let her be bored. Let her have long afternoons with absolutely nothing to do....”
– Make Your Kid A Writer (via Ta-Nehisi Coates)
“I’d like to think that all those chalkboard paintings are all meant to...”
– Hollister Hovey: Cy Twombly, In Context
Things I'm Pretty Sure About: 3
Am pretty sure that the value of your physical presence increases along with gas prices and distance traveled.
“The death of Cy Twombly has an oddly catastrophic feel—oddly because he was...”
– Peter Schjeldahl
News Desk: Cy Twombly, 1928-2011 : The New Yorker
“One irony of all this is the billions of people worldwide who dream of the day...”
– You’re Grounded — Mindful Living — Utne Reader
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“These stories are out in our communities all the time. I give this little talk...”
– Lane DeGregory on diving into Florida dreams – Nieman Storyboard - A project of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
cy twombly: american artist who scribbled his own... →
texturism:
…but mr. twombly, a tall, rangy virginian who once practiced drawing in the dark to make his lines less purposeful, steadfastly followed his own program and looked to his own muses — often literary ones, like catullus, rumi, pound and rilke. he seemed to welcome the privacy that came with unpopularity. “i had my freedom and that was nice”
“In a word: PERSIST.”
– Austin Madison, PIXAR
Letters of Note: PERSIST
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Black Coffee
Black coffee is for early mornings outside over a campfire or inside under an open skylight where birds come and play on the screen.
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Text at 11:39PM on a Sunday
Ethan: Question: What flavor are Tootsie Rolls?
Me: Is this a marital dispute?
Ethan: Yes.
