I’m reading Pleasure Dome, by Yusef Komunyakaa. I found this one especially moving. Once the Dream Begins I wish the bell saved you. “Float like a butterfly & sting like a bee.” Too bad you didn’t learn to disappear before a left jab. Fighting your way out of a clench, [...]
“Nothing just happens.” “Everything just happens.”
A cover of The Scientist, by Willie Nelson Yes, it’s the song from the Chipotle commercial. Yes, it’s a cover of a Coldplay song. Yes, it’s good.
I love this quote from a letter David Foster Wallace wrote to Mary Karr. More about the relationships of their generation of writers in this New York Magazine article. I think that quote sums up the gift of having great people in your life.
The title is from Plainsong, a really lovely novel I read recently about how we’re shaped and anchored by the places we’ve been. I’m thinking of it as I ride the train from New York to Boston, two places that make up the bulk of my childhood. Looking out the window, I am feeling nostalgia [...]
I’ll close this year out with a lovely poem my good friend sent to me today. If you like it, pay it forward. Don’t forget to be kind to yourself and others. See you in 2011! – Lily P.S. This poem reminds of another I love. Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye Before you know what [...]
As I move more of my photos, music, and communications into the cloud, I notice my personal definition of ownership undergoing a transformation. I am the type of person who both loves and fears nostalgia. I back up all my photos and music to another hard drive, along with Dropbox, and I am a packrat-like [...]
Elizabeth Bishop is amazing. One more by her before I force myself to move on. The Armadillo by Elizabeth Bishop For Robert Lowell This is the time of year when almost every night the frail, illegal fire balloons appear. Climbing the mountain height, rising toward a saint still honored in [...]