"That's how my heart is, I thought-
It lies coiled inside of me, asleep,
then springs out and shocks me,
with all of its muchness."
-Tony Hoagland, "Muchness"
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"I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave's a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that's what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it." - Joan Didion
Oh, How I Love...
- yellow string
- triple skinny lattes
- stamp collections
- homemade butter
- Newland, my laptop
- orange staplers
- handwritten letters
- yellowed paperbacks
- old board games
- packing the perfect bag
- postage stamps
- pencil cap erasers
- glassine envelopes
- blue correspondence stock
- knit coffee sleeves
- double bands
- personalized pencils
Currently Gleaning From...
- Colum McCann
- Aimee Bender
- Denise Levertov
- Kevin Moffett
- Barry Hannah
- John Berger
- Grace Paley
- Laura Letinsky
- Mike Mills
- Amy Hempel
- E. L. Konigsburg
- Mrs. Dalloway