Out of the fields, Into the sea
“Things are going fairly well in that I am leaving the house and got myself a part time job. My room is still a mess.”
The Collar of the Root, The Tip of the Iceberg
“But we are all human, I thought, wondering what I meant.”
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Komainu
"I woke early the next morning, before sunrise, and went out into the world. I walked past my car. I stepped onto the pavement, still warm from the previous day’s sun."
Freyja Inhaled, Then Wept
“Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too.”
Ashes, Ashes
“At lunchtime I bought a huge orange The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half.”
Lost, Asleep in Substrata
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.”
vicodin, creaks, bees, and rain
“And here I am, alive. Almost seventy years and nothing has killed me. Not the car I totalled running a stop sign or the spirochete that screwed into my blood. Not the tree that fell in the forest exactly where I was standing—my best friend shoving me backward so I fell on my ass as it crashed.”
Images:
The Eye of Love by René Groebli (1953)
Julie Delpy Avec Une Cigarette, unknown photographer (1989)
Invisible Man directed by James Whale (1933)
Self Portrait: Snow Hill by Andrew Wyeth (1989)
Marriage by Andrew Wyeth (1993)
Spring by Andrew Wyeth (1978)
Barracoon Study by Andrew Wyeth (1976)
Quotations:
this is a lazy post by Elisa Lam (2012)
The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie (1999)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)
The Orange by Wendy Cope (1992)
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2002)
The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942)
Indigo by Ellen Bass (2017)