May all beings everywhere, with whom we are inseparably interconnected, be fulfilled, awakened, and free. May there be peace in this world and throughout the entire universe, and may we all together complete the spiritual journey.
— Lama Surya Das
The Realist, 1971
Me and my middle son, Ben
And Pearl’s nose.
And Having Broken into Blossom
after James Wright
there is no against
just to and fro
and where before I wondered
what and...
Happy 33rd birthday to me
undr:
Ein trister Tag, 1956
Ballet class in Russia during World War II.
My latest Cigar Box Guitar build. Came out better than I expected.
“Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning.”
― Jean Baudrillard”
(via journalofanobody)
“Americans have a right to know what kind of “evidence” or innuendo is sufficient to land them on the No Fly List, and to have a hearing where they can defend themselves. Without this bare minimum, there is no meaningful check to correct the government’s mistakes or ensure that it uses the blacklisting power it claims fairly and appropriately. We are asking the court, therefore, to vindicate a basic yet fundamentally important proposition: a government black list that denies Americans the ability to fly without giving them an explanation or fair chance to clear their names violates the Constitution.”
American Civil Liberties Union (via azspot)
(via azspot)
Cukes are coming in! The kitchen garden seems to be lagging a bit this year due to our cool spring weather. I will be eating my first cucumber of the season today for lunch - a few weeks later than usual, but still before the first day of summer. I don’t expect to have any tomatoes until well after the 4th of July.
Back alley of Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
“Mysteries of the flesh are solved. We speak of “senseless tragedies” but really: Is there any other kind? Mothers and wives disappear without a trace. Childeren are killed. Madamen ravage the world, leaving wounds immeasurably deep, and endlessy mourned. loved ones whose presence once filled us move into the distance; our eyes follow them as long as possible as they recede from view. Maybe we chase them clumsily, across railroad tracks and trafficked streets; Over roads new printed with their foot steps,the dust still whirling in the wake of them; through impossibly big cities people with strangers whose faces and bodies carry fragments of their faces and bodies, whose laughter, steadiness, pluck, stuberness remind us of the beloved we seek. Maybe we stay put, left behind, and look for them in our dreams. But we never stop looking, not even after those we love become part of the unreachable horizon. we can never stop carrying the heavy weight of love on this pilgimage; we can only transfigure what we carry. We can only shatter it and send it whirling into the world so that it can take shape in some new way.”
― Stephanie Kallos, Broken for You”
(via journalofanobody)
“The real value of a real education … has almost nothing to do with knowledge and everything to do with simple awareness.”
David Foster Wallace (via explore-blog)
(via ringtales)
Banffy Castle in Bonţida, Cluj County, Romania
©yama-bato,2013
Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know? (Official Video) (by ArcticMonkeys)
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