February 2012
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Month of Neruda
“in a river of flowerbeds the sun reaches my mouth like an old buried tear that becomes seed again” - Born in the Woods, Pablo Neruda.
Each day in February I have been posting pictures of snippets of poems by Pablo Neruda.
(Your Laughter)
Month of Neruda has been a way to share the poet’s writings with a daily reminder of love through Path and Twitter.
(I...
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Reading Herman Melville again
Traveling again with Moby Dick
That book that voyage
that we bonded over.
That leviathan we chased,
and that sunk us.
That gliding concept whose wake haunts still,
all these waves later
this nothing this heaven
Found this gem at the end of W.S. Merwin’s The SHadow of Sirius.
Just This
When I think of the patience I have had back in the dark before I remember or knew it was night until the light came all at once at the speed it was born to with all the time in the world to fly through not concerned about ever arriving and then the gathering of the first stars unhurried in their flowering...
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January 2012
37 posts
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Etta James
Debated that Etta James has passed away.
Thankful that she left us with the greatest love song of all time.
“I found a dream that I could speak to
A dream that I can call my own
I found a thrill to rest my cheek to
A thrill that I have never known.”
Care to what I plant
The heart is like a garden.
It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love.
What seeds will you plant there?
— the Buddha via Jack Kornfield
Interviewed by Mashable →
I had fun being interviewed for a story on Mashable.com about using Facebook to bring history alive.