December 2010
73 posts
New Georgia Agricultural Commissioner Gary Black... →
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“I think we can depict a better picture of agriculture,” Black said.
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& from the artist who painted them: “As a human being, I am vehemently opposed to slavery, as anyone should be,” Beattie said, “but it was a significant epoch in our history; it would have been inaccurate not to include this period.”
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The reason I believe this is post-worthy is...
First white Christmas in Georgia since 1897!!!
Jolene
Ray LaMontagne
A picture of you holding...
“The house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows...”
– gaston bachelard
Marion Blank: Journal (2010)
marionblank:
sky weighs heavily gravity pushing me under liquid rage contained but snow flake on my nose and lips enough to light up an entire universe
The categories of optimism and pessimism don’t exist for me. I’m a blues man. A blues man is a prisoner of hope, and hope is a qualitatively different category than optimism. Optimism is a secular construct, a calculation of probability… We are a people of hope. Hope wrestles with despair, but it doesn’t generate optimism. It just generates this energy to be courageous, to bear witness, to...
“When rain fell on both of us
Thousands of plants
Grew on our coats.
After you...”
– Nizar Qabbani, trans. by B.K. Frangieh & C.R. Brown (via casablancaat10am)
The night migration
This is the moment when you see again
the red berries of the mountain ash
and in the dark sky
the bird’s migrations.
It grieves me to think
the dead won’t see them —
these things we depend on,
they disappear.
What will do the soul for solace then?
I tell myself maybe it won’t need
these pleasure anymore;
maybe just not being is simply enough,
hard as...
Serafina Steer, Peach Heart (thanks, JH)
WatchI have heroes everywhere, but this man, Mr. Narayanan Krishnan, is what I can only hope to strive for. Take note, people. We all feel better when we are aware of giving & receiving. When we hug our neighbor whom we think we have nothing in common with, we realize what we do have in common is everything. We are the same. Sometimes it takes our neighbor to remind us. Even those living in fear...