You've got to dig to dig it, you dig?
‘It’s the principle involved–
Truth, Beauty,
Call what you will,
Belittle it …’ Traveling light,
Your lifework, inch-high sculpture
Crammed in a matchbox
Weighs nothing, in the scale of things.
—Matchbox Sculptures by Harry Clifton
Rein by Gustavo Santaolalla for the film, Biutiful, 2010.
It is a good day when I see you,
powder-red bloom
on a floating branch.
Or hear you, sliding your one note
barbershop style.
You are always a distance
from me–I try
to get close.
When the sun has hardly risen,
I step quietly
through the woods,
find your shape. Say
to myself: hide,
desire. Yours are not the kind
of hands
to catch this kind of bird.
– Bird in the Head by Ailish Hopper
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more.
–(from Macbeth, spoken by Macbeth) by William Shakespeare
“… to believe that no matter how bad the world gets, there will always be players” (GZ)
“I have faltered in my appointed duty.
It is a small sacrilege, a minor heresy.
[…]
To whom is their offering rendered,
and from whom derived,
these fallen things
[…]
its fragrance is a tendril
connecting my mind to the rain,
a root, a tap, a tether.
–Campbell McGrath, Late Spring.
“There are no ghosts, but up here”—she gestured toward her head—“it’s a haunted house.” (GZ)
Cuckoo Is in the Nest by Daniel Pemberton, Amsterdam.
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.
“… 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.
[…]
The greatest pleasures of his life had been when he was by her side, playing or inventing.”
-(GZ)
“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)
“[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)