Our shoes pin us to the world, like Peter Pan to his shadow. More than simply facilitating our movement out-of-doors, they mediate between the wearer and the ground. Perhaps it is less the world they pin us to, but our place in it; that shadow of society that follows wherever we go. ― Summer … Continue reading Quote for Today: Summer Brennan
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Quote for Today: Bashõ
Falling upon earth, Pure water spills from the cup Of the camellia. -- Bashõ Image: The camellia's tears, Katherine McDaniel, 2019
Quote for Today: Kristen Henderson
I tell you once and for all— in front of the angel pictures on the wall, that I am not a host to load-bearing ghosts or heady entities, and if I was ever holy, I have fallen far into the dense atmosphere of the living. ―Kristen Henderson, Drum Machine Public Domain Image via Pxhere
Quote for Today: Katherine Dunn
Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them. ―Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
Quote for Today: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness. In fact, he creates new appearances of things. ―Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Image: Archers by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1935-37
Quote for Today: Bell Hooks
To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School … Continue reading Quote for Today: Bell Hooks
Quote for Today: Anne Lamott
And then, unbidden, seemingly out of nowhere, a thought or image arrives. Some will float into your head like goldfish, lovely, bright, orange, and weightless, and you follow them like a child at an aquarium that was thought to be without fish. Others will step of the shadows like Boo Radley and make you catch … Continue reading Quote for Today: Anne Lamott
