December 2009
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“May your coming year be filled
with magic and dreams and good madness.
I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via puslebit)
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Feist - Now At Last
“Now at last I see How...
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“let it go - the
smashed word broken
open vow or
the oath cracked length
wise...”
– ‘let it go’ by e. e. cummings
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“But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at. I am not what I am”
– from Shakespeare’s Othello (via whatisforever)
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“The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.”
– W. Somerset Maugham
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“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a...”
– Robert Frost (via lived, cloudsthatmarch)
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“I’ve woken up once and I’ve woken up twice
And I’ve woken up millions and...”
– Regina Spektor (via yipjump, puslebit)
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“A life without pain: it was the very thing I had dreamed of for years, but now...”
– from ‘The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle’ by Haruki Murakami
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“She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of...”
– Jerry Spinelli
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“Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do...”
– ‘Separation’ by W. S. Merwin
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“Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely...”
– from ‘The Little Prince’ by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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“They say that people who live next to waterfalls don’t hear the water. It...”
– from ‘Everything is Illuminated’ by J. S. Foer
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Sometimes,
everything breaks my heart.
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sadness shield
Carol: Will you keep out all the sadness?
Max: I have a sadness shield that keeps out all the sadness, and it's big enough for all of us.
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“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you...”
– Carl Sagan (via skyisland)
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“Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear,...”
– Sven Nykvist
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“We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by...”
– Andrei Tarkovsky
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the acoustic properties of snow
puslebit: (via: allimac)
Under water, snowfall has a unique sound when compared to other forms of precipitation. Despite the different sizes and shapes on individual snowflakes, the sound made when individual flakes fall upon the surface of a freshwater lake are quite similar. On the ground, newly-fallen snow acts as a sound-absorbing material, which minimizes sound over its surface. This is due...
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'... those lovely intangibles.'
Fred Gailey: Look Doris, someday you're going to find that your way of facing this realistic world just doesn't work. And when you do, don't overlook those lovely intangibles. You'll discover those are the only things that are worthwhile.
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Zero 7 - Somersault
You talk to loners, you ask...
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“What is it my dear?”
“Ah, how can we bear it?”
“Bear...”
– from ‘Possession’ by A. S. Byatt
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“The pearls weren’t really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with...”
– from ‘The White Oleander’ by Janet Fitch
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