Glass House.

"Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him..."

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:11:58 -0800

“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath…”

- Keats, from “Ode to a Nightingale.”

(I just found this while I was going through my computer.) We...

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:09:12 -0800

(I just found this while I was going through my computer.)

We will kick your fucking ass.

We finally went to the cupcake bakery on Glenwood. I had two.

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:02:36 -0800

We finally went to the cupcake bakery on Glenwood. I had two.

Les Miserables.

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:00:24 -0800

“Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born and die each minute.”

“Her whole being quivered as though at the unfolding of invisible wings making ready to spread and bear her upward.”

“There utter darkness and here shadow; but a shadow filled with light, a light filled with radiance.”

Photo

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:43:24 -0800

Oakwood Cemetery, memory house.

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:42:00 -0800

Oakwood Cemetery, memory house.

"Difficult times have helped me understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life..."

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:58:42 -0700

“Difficult times have helped me understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.”

- Isak Dinesen.

Photo

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:44:18 -0700

"I have a trunk containing continents."

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:22:42 -0700

“I have a trunk containing continents.”

- Beryl Markham.

She Walks in Beauty.

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:21:50 -0700

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies

One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express,
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place

And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!

—Byron, who was, according to popular opinion, “mad, bad, and dangerous to know.”

"He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for..."

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:18:40 -0700

“He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”

- Freidrich Nietzsche.

aja: Objects In Motion // 8x10 print. $20. Buy one.

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:10:53 -0700

aja:

Objects In Motion // 8x10 print. $20.

Buy one.

Transcendental.

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:42:59 -0700

I read Emerson and Thoreau for the first time in a long time the other day, and remembered how energetic they are, how stoked on life. Reading Emerson especially is like jumping off a pier into a cold lake. Some quotes from him that I love, however soft-ball or “self-help” they may sound:

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

“Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”

“We do what we must, and call it by the best names.”

“Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.”

The most quotable man hates quotations.

And then there are these. School projects on the internets!

yotaroh: 大徳寺高桐院 (via Masahiro Makino)

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:32:42 -0700

yotaroh:

大徳寺高桐院 (via Masahiro Makino)

Video

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:16:20 -0700

I've got a small problem.

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:04:53 -0700

I’m sort of sick, in the way that I always get sick: which is to say, only annoyingly so. I’ve got a sore throat and a dry cough that won’t stop. It’s 3 a.m. It’s 3 a.m. and I’ve got a dry cough that won’t stop. I can’t go to sleep. How terrible is it to have a nasty tickle in your throat, acting up at the very minute you lay your head down next to a sweet, warm person?

That’s another picture of my new school. A teacher told me today that my comment on “No Haid Pawn” was beautiful and neato and he hoped that everyone wrote it down. I don’t take compliments well, and I don’t give them well, but for some reason I was really flattered that this professor I respect was respecting me back. I probably care too much about literature, especially about the small themes and “neato” little things, but it’s nice to know that there are successful people who care about those things too.

I’m going to go try to sleep and cough my lungs up some more. Hopefully tomorrow morning will be a little less sickly than tonight.

"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden,..."

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:27:19 -0700

“I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.”

- Thoreau.

Three Ships, N.C. Wyeth.

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:25:50 -0700

Three Ships, N.C. Wyeth.

The Giant

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:24:47 -0700

The Giant

"If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of..."

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:23:00 -0700

“If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.”

- So thinking about getting allergy shots and getting a cat.

Glass House.

"Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him..."

(I just found this while I was going through my computer.) We...

We finally went to the cupcake bakery on Glenwood. I had two.

Les Miserables.

Photo

Oakwood Cemetery, memory house.

"Difficult times have helped me understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life..."

Photo

"I have a trunk containing continents."

She Walks in Beauty.

"He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for..."

aja: Objects In Motion // 8x10 print. $20. Buy one.

Transcendental.

yotaroh: 大徳寺 高桐院 (via Masahiro Makino)

Video

I've got a small problem.

"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden,..."

Three Ships, N.C. Wyeth.

The Giant

"If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of..."

yotaroh: 大徳寺高桐院 (via Masahiro Makino)