Whistling for Moonbeams

"How silently the heart pivots on its hinge." - Jane Hirshfield Twilight, along the highway-- The drone of cars speeding past...

‎ "Set your life on fire.  Seek those who  fan your flames." - Rumi

Funny habits of famous authors Truman Capote and 15 Writers' Bedrooms via Apartmenttherapy.com Sylvia Plath's bedroom fo...

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March 17, 2012 2:01 a.m.  Training room Desultory thoughts Your penmanship has changed 6 times on this page. You are a fickle-minded perso...

Tonight, an August night, feeling the apples yellow as young moons on the tree behind the house, I think of my winter— - "The Corpse-...

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2012 Ms. Gray's "Covered" is definitely a whole crew of well-diffused sound waves. The perfect soundtrack for a 5:00-in-...

"The season rubs me wrong/ the summer swells anon..."

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on random things and loneliness The dust keeps settling too nicely on the floor. And now I need to wipe them off my books. I ask myself h...

"Life is a sum of all your choices. So, what are you doing today?" - Albert Camus "Sometimes, from sorrow, for no reason, ...

It never ends.

Ah, daylight. Early morning, to be a bit more specific. Exact time, not important. The mildness that brushes everything is what matters: th...

"We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it." -Raine...

Conversations with my daughter are almost always sprinkled with her exclaiming (with those animated, beautiful eyes of hers), "Mommy I ...

What I'm reading now: John Fowles , A Maggot, 1985 his last work of fiction

To lead you to an overwhelming question... Oh, do not ask, "What is it? - T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" ...

Jack Kerouac's "30 Cool Tips" Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy Submissive to everythin...

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I found this wonderful little link  over at writer Maria Popova 's twitter. Designer Christian Jackson created a series of minimalist ...

A Panorama of ‘Middlemarch’

You fill my heart with joy. You're the best companion to anywhere and anything. Don't you ever go away.

Every time we say goodbye, I die a little Every time we say goodbye, I wonder why a little Why the Gods above me, who must be in the k...

And would it have been worth it, after all,  After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,  Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,  W...

lackluster, empty, as brittle as your will, dust in my hands. I dust off my hands.

“Your love should never be offered to the mouth of a stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off ...

When I bristle, my forehead still distorts itself into impossible lines. When I feel the lines carving themselves into my forehead, a frie...

Finally, the denouement to the crest, the crescendos flocking towards stillness, the pieces falling back into place. It didn't seem po...

Today, I tried to make the most of daylight. I read one hundred eighty two pages of Byatt's Elementals outdoors. I prefer reading by su...

Last book I read: What I'm reading right now:

And how deelish is this? Baz Luhrmann, you're so tops! Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway, Leonardo Dicaprio as Jay Gatsby, Carey Mullig...

Terrence Malick, 2011 "Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and in...

I’m always breaking something, a hand-thrown mug, a path, a promise. This life requires a map I can’t find, a gentleness I can’t feel, a sur...

Listening to my girls Laura Nyro and Joni Mitchell , with some sprinkling of Diane Birch and Carly Simon , dreaming of green hilltops and...

Without a doubt, my favorite version.

party theme Congo Grill, West Gate, Alabang Registration peeps The boys, first Then, the girls party peeps The audie...

Oh starbright, starbright You've got the lovin' that I like, all right... Up there's a heaven Down there  is a town Blackness...

Vacillating vixens. Meandering mannequins. Grappling grizzlies. Pixies' pinkies. Clamoring clarinets. Magnets magnified. Smiling smokers...

(photo from  Coffee Mood ) I treated myself to a tall Toffee Nut Latte for my first taste of Christmas at Starbucks. Toffee Nut is the on...

I know, I know. I should have come up with a better title, but the first word that came to mind was "domestic", and then I natural...

"...morning is the soul's night."   —   David Foster Wallace,   Infinite Jest Twilight rouses the soul from its slumber, a...

Let's see. So, I've: added Hershey's milk chocolate with almonds and Green Cross hand sanitizer to my grocery list and Escada ...

The night stretches out before me, the hours small from where I am, the shadows innocuous, the dark presenting no threats, but only from whe...

If the line forms to the right, chances are, you'll find me on the left. Surely there'll be one, or two, others there, on the line, ...

moonlight and cool breezes and my favorite perfume and gold-colored flip-flops and sunlight in the morning and pink curtains and teal nail p...

Weight: 97 lbs (gained 3 lbs from the recent week-long break from work) Height: diminutive, still. pffft. hahaha Books read: .5 (I know, r...

by Lou Lipsitz Have a nice day. Have a memorable day. Have (however unlikely) a life-changing day. Have a day of soaking rain and lightni...