Author: dig

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“I have faltered in my appointed duty.
It is a small sacrilege, a minor heresy.

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To whom is their offering rendered,
and from whom derived,

these fallen things

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its fragrance is a tendril
connecting my mind to the rain,

a root, a tap, a tether.

–Campbell McGrath, Late Spring.

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“There are no ghosts, but up here”—she gestured toward her head—“it’s a haunted house.” (GZ)

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Cuckoo Is in the Nest by Daniel Pemberton, Amsterdam.

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Bolster our psychological immune system (via theguardian) : position our perspective in a neutral zone rather than see through a negative bias; try to be in present moment; aim for the meaningful and purposeful; accept how, where/when, and what we are while we are in as we experience difficulties in life.

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“… And I ordered my heart to be patient: Be neutral as if you were not of me!” – (Mahmoud Darwish)

“a gate was … an indication that you had left one space and were entering another. […] life was always arriving. There was always another gate to pass through.

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The greatest pleasures of his life had been when he was by her side, playing or inventing.”

-(GZ)

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“Only the wayward appreciated her riotous conduct and wild habits and longing to create a life from nothing … only they could discern the beautiful plot … desire for an elsewhere and an otherwise … a notion of the possible whose outlines were fuzzy and amorphous” (SH)

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“[Beauty], where one wishes to go”

“The meaning subverts the form, and elegance of form is always capable of being corrupted by what meaning it delivers.” (RS)

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“… But today the gulls are silver angels etching
great cursive blessings in a perfect sky—so Death & I
make believe we believe that, & amble on.”

–Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Late Afternoon Stroll on the Cliffs