March 2012
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“Then build your life in accordance with this necessity; your whole life, even into its humblest and most indifferent hour, must become a sign and witness to this impulse. Then come close to Nature. Then, as if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet
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“Sequestered in Bellingham, Washington, Wood nurtures a private vision that finds vent in a darkly romantic expressionism.
The reason the criticism isn’t valid, I think, is that Wood’s prints are so personal they are authentic. They’re the result of introspection about matters that most concern him.
Wood’s prints succeed through the intensity of thought.
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“I realized I wanted to get back to something you could handle yourself,” he says.
As each table, cabinet, bed, or chair nears completion, it begins to assume a life of its own. “There’s a disconnection when a thing is finally done,” he says. “It feels like I came across it, instead of having made it.
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When you understand, you cannot help but love. And when you love, you naturally act in a way that can relieve the suffering of people.
We know that anger can be a kind of compost, and that it is within its power to give birth to something beautiful.
If love is in our heart, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle. Because understanding is the very foundation of love, words and...
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The Little Prince
You know, when you’re feeling very sad, sunsets are wonderful…
Here is my secret. It’s quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.
It’s the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important.
What moves me so deeply about this sleeping little prince is his loyalty to a flower - the image of a rose shining...
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When a thing is perfectly made it has no fastenings or seams. It will not come apart in your hands.
Jeanette Winterson
A Work of My Own
Art Objects
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Never lie. Never say that something has moved you if you are still in the same place.
Jeanette Winterson
The Psychometry of Books
Art Objects
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If we could imagine ourselves out of despair?
If we could could imagine ourselves out of helplessess?
What would happen if we could imagine in ourselves authentic desire?
What would happen if one woman told the truth about herself?
The world would split open.
Muriel Rukeyser
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“The best work speaks intimately to you even though it has been consciously made to speak intimately to thousands of others.”
“I want all that there is, so long as it is genuine.”
Jeanette Winterson
The Semiotics of Sex
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communicator
“It [art] is not time-locked and it will unlock for you a history otherwise hidden; the history of the human heart. I know of no better communicator than art. No better means of saying so precisely those things which need so urgently to be said.”
Jeanette Winterson
A Veil of Words, Art Objects
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time to myself so I can be good to others.
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The story of the two men - when they came home - making a list of wishes.
where you feel the most yourself.
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Silence is the only language God speaks.
Dime-Store Alchemy
The Art of Joseph Cornell
by Charles Simic
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“everything we love
is going to die…
that is why now it
is important that
everything we love
be summed up into
something unforgettably
beautiful,
like the shedding of
so many tears of farewell.”
Michael Leiris 1937
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the couple who said they have the rest of their lives to work out problems.
commitment
ready to die
How to make a perfect painting: make yourself perfect, then paint.
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someone to be my family
i wrote long time ago in my big blue hardbound sketchbook
here he is, and they are
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Two hours a day he spends alone doing “nothing”. That’s how he says he can do all that he does.
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I would be a bitter old woman if I didn’t do it with all my might.
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“The words of Rilke, the poet, entered my brain - his notion that we are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
Douglas Coupland
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the smallest, narrowest storefront hair salon in uptown, chicago. i used to pass by it on the bus. this was more than 10 years ago. i wish i could find a picture of it. it had one salon chair, and a loft area that i think the haircutter slept in.
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my note from the universe today
(your name here), if you could take a daily pill that would profoundly speed-up the manifestation of all your dreams, would you take it without fail? I thought so. What if it was a big, ugly pill that took 5 minutes to dissolve on your tongue, and it tasted like medicine. Would you still do it? Yes, all of your dreams… Thought so. But what if during those 5 minutes each day you...
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Where would you like to be in ten years? Ten years ago I was a shy economics student without dreams or desires. Back then, I would never believe in the happy place I am living at now. And in ten years I’d love to find myself in a place I can’t imagine now even in my boldest dreams.
from Etsy’s “Featured Seller” article
Maria of Dubrovskaya
