31 March 2012
30 March 2012
"Folklore is the boiled down juice of human living."
Zora Neale Hurston
via Boiled Down Juice :
"This blog is a gathering space for questions and conversations at the intersection of sustaining community traditions and positive change and grassroots community action. Thrown into the mix you'll find posts about music, food, and all the other ways humans express the art of daily life."
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sarahB's going to Folklorists of the South !
Zora Neale Hurston
via Boiled Down Juice :
"This blog is a gathering space for questions and conversations at the intersection of sustaining community traditions and positive change and grassroots community action. Thrown into the mix you'll find posts about music, food, and all the other ways humans express the art of daily life."
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sarahB's going to Folklorists of the South !
DATA GARDEN: QUARTET will be the first bio-reactive and plant-controlled work of art at The Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Situated in the Megawords exhibition space, participants will be encouraged to accompany four large tropical plants that are fitted with specialized electronic sensors. By converting the physiology of the specimens into data, the plants will perform quadraphonic audio compositions in real time. The very presence of museum goers will affect this performance, resulting in a unique composition from moment to moment.
"3. I know that there's no true coherence except in apparent incoherence. Every object clothes itself in chaos. To take shape, every thought must manage its own vagueness.
20. I know that, seen from the border between language and the world, the universe is in increasing entropy. But I no longer know what it is if I climb to the top of a tree ( one of these trees on the border between language and the world), from where you can see far into language and far into the world at the same time.
21. Because I have scaled a tree, I know that beyond language is a huge plain, with dark flowers and little mazy footpaths."
3 selected from Patrick Dubost's "What I Know"
translate from the French by Fiona Sampson
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"O word to which II have given hope by throwing it into the chasm."
Edmond Jabes, Itrans. Rosemarie Waldrop
via proustitute
20. I know that, seen from the border between language and the world, the universe is in increasing entropy. But I no longer know what it is if I climb to the top of a tree ( one of these trees on the border between language and the world), from where you can see far into language and far into the world at the same time.
21. Because I have scaled a tree, I know that beyond language is a huge plain, with dark flowers and little mazy footpaths."
3 selected from Patrick Dubost's "What I Know"
translate from the French by Fiona Sampson
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"O word to which II have given hope by throwing it into the chasm."
Edmond Jabes, Itrans. Rosemarie Waldrop
via proustitute
29 March 2012
Wind Map
"An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future.
This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US right now. "
ie.
27 March 2012
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20 March 2012
"An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future.
This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US right now. "
ie.
27 March 2012
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20 March 2012
28 March 2012
Chee shares advice from Annie Dillard:
1. Put all your deaths, accidents and diseases up front, at the beginning.
2. Don’t ever use the word ‘soul,’ if possible.
12. Go to the place in the bookstore where your books will go, and put your finger there.
"Annie Dillard and the Writing Life"
Alexander Chee
via TheMorningNews
via TheMorningNews
in list form, via settledthingsstrange
“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”, by J.K. Rowling
via Underground New York Public Library
a photo stream of subway readers ! its a what's being read kind of story.
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“These two interlocking hearts I designed for the cover of Book of Mercy,” his 1984 poetry collection, he says, moving along as he describes another chop. “I established this Order of the Unified Heart, that is a kind of dream of an order. There is no organization. There’s no hierarchy. There’s just a pin for people of a very broadly designated similar intent.”
“And yours is?”
He thinks for a minute. “To just make things better on a very personal level,” he says. “You’re just not scattered all over the place. There is a tiny moment when you might gather around some decent intention.”
“And what has been your most decent intention?”
He places his hands on the edge of the table. “I can’t think of any right now. There must be one or two.” "
“Beauty, maybe.”
“Beauty, certainly,” he responds."
interview with Leonard Cohen
"He Has Tried in His Way to Be Free"
Shambhala Sun
“These two interlocking hearts I designed for the cover of Book of Mercy,” his 1984 poetry collection, he says, moving along as he describes another chop. “I established this Order of the Unified Heart, that is a kind of dream of an order. There is no organization. There’s no hierarchy. There’s just a pin for people of a very broadly designated similar intent.”
“And yours is?”
He thinks for a minute. “To just make things better on a very personal level,” he says. “You’re just not scattered all over the place. There is a tiny moment when you might gather around some decent intention.”
“And what has been your most decent intention?”
He places his hands on the edge of the table. “I can’t think of any right now. There must be one or two.” "
“Beauty, maybe.”
“Beauty, certainly,” he responds."
interview with Leonard Cohen
"He Has Tried in His Way to Be Free"
Shambhala Sun
"I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
I want to free what waits within me
so that what no one has dared to wish for
may for once spring clear
without my contriving.
If this is arrogant, God, forgive me,
but this is what I need to say.
May what I do flow from me like a river,
no forcing and no holding back,
the way it is with children.
Then in these swelling and ebbing currents,
these deepening tides moving out, returning,
I will sing you as no one ever has,
streaming through widening channels
into the open sea."
Rainer Maria Rilke
Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
~waves
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via Parabola Magazine Tumblr
^ HOTSPOT ALERT!
Rainer Maria Rilke
Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
~waves
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via Parabola Magazine Tumblr
^ HOTSPOT ALERT!
"In the end, what we pay the most attention to defines us. How you choose to spend the irreplaceable hours of your life literally transforms you.
All relationships change the brain — but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.
Brain scans show synchrony between the brains of mother and child; but what they can’t show is the internal bond that belongs to neither alone, a fusion in which the self feels so permeable it doesn’t matter whose body is whose. Wordlessly, relying on the heart’s semaphores, the mother says all an infant needs to hear, communicating through eyes, face and voice. Thanks to advances in neuroimaging, we now have evidence that a baby’s first attachments imprint its brain. The patterns of a lifetime’s behaviors, thoughts, self-regard and choice of sweethearts all begin in this crucible.
We used to think this was the end of the story: first heredity, then the brain’s engraving mental maps in childhood, after which you’re pretty much stuck with the final blueprint.
But as a wealth of imaging studies highlight, the neural alchemy continues throughout life as we mature and forge friendships, dabble in affairs, succumb to romantic love, choose a soul mate. The body remembers how that oneness with Mother felt, and longs for its adult equivalent.
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"When two people become a couple, the brain extends its idea of self to include the other; instead of the slender pronoun “I,” a plural self emerges who can borrow some of the other’s assets and strengths. The brain knows who we are."
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Diane Ackerman
"The Brain on Love"
NyTimes
via jesuisperdu
"When two people become a couple, the brain extends its idea of self to include the other; instead of the slender pronoun “I,” a plural self emerges who can borrow some of the other’s assets and strengths. The brain knows who we are."
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Diane Ackerman
"The Brain on Love"
NyTimes
via jesuisperdu
“Don’t insist on understanding new things, but try with your whole self, with patience, effort and method, to comprehend obvious truths.”
Simone Weil
via crashinglybeautiful
Simone Weil
via crashinglybeautiful
27 March 2012
"We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet’s crust. As adults we are almost all adept at waking up. We have so mastered the transition we have forgotten we ever learned it. Yet it is a transition we make a hundred times a day, as, like so many will-less dolphins, we plunge and surface, lapse and emerge. We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall. Useless, I say. Valueless, I might add –until someone hauls their wealth up to the surface and into the wide-awake city, in a form that people can use."
Annie Dillard
Teaching a Stone to Talk
23 March 2012
19 March 2012
Report Verses
"... Steiner once made such a verse, which can help people who are weak or ill to activate their will in the best way possible.
22. O Spirit of God, fill Thou me,
Fill Thou me within my soul :
My soul, to it give forces strong,
Forces strong also to my heart;
To my heart, that for Thee seeks,
Seeks with deepest longing:
Deepest longing for new health,
For new health and courage:
Courage, that in my limbs goes streaming,
Streaming as noble gift of God;
Gift of Gof from Thee, O psirit of God.
O Spirit of God, fill Thou me.
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"Far more tha with our thinking the word binds together with our feeling, and far more strongly again with everything that lies in the will. Feeling belongs to a much more unconscious part than feeling. For thinking the wordswe speak amount to little more, as it were, than signs. To feeling they have far more intimate connection. They join forces with feeling far more closely, and especially closely do they do so with willing."
Healing Forces in the Word and Its Rhythms
Heinz Muller
"... Steiner once made such a verse, which can help people who are weak or ill to activate their will in the best way possible.
22. O Spirit of God, fill Thou me,
Fill Thou me within my soul :
My soul, to it give forces strong,
Forces strong also to my heart;
To my heart, that for Thee seeks,
Seeks with deepest longing:
Deepest longing for new health,
For new health and courage:
Courage, that in my limbs goes streaming,
Streaming as noble gift of God;
Gift of Gof from Thee, O psirit of God.
O Spirit of God, fill Thou me.
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"Far more tha with our thinking the word binds together with our feeling, and far more strongly again with everything that lies in the will. Feeling belongs to a much more unconscious part than feeling. For thinking the wordswe speak amount to little more, as it were, than signs. To feeling they have far more intimate connection. They join forces with feeling far more closely, and especially closely do they do so with willing."
Healing Forces in the Word and Its Rhythms
Heinz Muller
"Only cabbages are left in the bedraggled garden. Truth becomes visible, the architecture of the soul begins to show through. God has put off his panoply and is at home with us. We are returned to what lay beneath the beauty. WE have resumed our lives. There is no hurry now. We make love without rushing and find ourselves afterwards with someone we know well. Time to be what we are getting ready to be next. This loving, this relishing, our gladness, this being puts down roots and comes back again year after year."
Jack Gilbert
The Great Fires
oh HURRAH! dearest Kristen offers a dear one& JUST at that golden moment when search is met with a been said. The above, from her website will be spoken at my turn, for a Holy Week reading offering.
Jack Gilbert
The Great Fires
oh HURRAH! dearest Kristen offers a dear one& JUST at that golden moment when search is met with a been said. The above, from her website will be spoken at my turn, for a Holy Week reading offering.
18 March 2012
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12 March 2012
Wilder Quarterly is a publication for people enthralled by the natural world. In our pages you’ll find green thumbs, rooftop gardeners, foodies and chefs, seed savers, architects, hobby farmers, horticulturalists, innovators, amateurs, and experts. Just your everyday mix of growing enthusiasts. Wilder is ‘life through the lens of the growing world’—
05 March 2012
Like light - In light, lit through by light, transformed into light. Like the lens which disappears in the light it focuses.
Like wind. Like light.
Just this - on these expanses, on these heights.
- Dag Hammarskjöld
via whiskeyriver
~waves
03 March 2012
01 March 2012
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eternal.mixtape
Judd Greenstein
"Clearing, Dawn, Dance"
via npr
this song is from yMusic's CD Beautiful Mechanical,
produced by New Amsterdam
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for personal record
TWIT
NAms
Alex Sopp
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Ecstatic 2012
via npr
this song is from yMusic's CD Beautiful Mechanical,
produced by New Amsterdam
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for personal record
TWIT
NAms
Alex Sopp
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Ecstatic 2012
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