Full Circle

If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast? 
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991) 

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish it’s source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

—Anais Nin (via kari-shma)

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boniverotica: Bon Iver is practicing letterpress. He made an itinerary for our Sunday.wake earlybreakfast (crusty bread with butter and marmalade)tend to the garden and fenceskiss behind the woodpilehike to the silo on the neighbor’s land to peek insidewalk to the cottonwood grove where we found the thing that might be an arrowheadpicnic in the cool shade (salad, berries, summer sausage and cheese)fool around as the day slips past usreturn home as slowly as possible, saying hello to every bush and critternap in the porch swing, holding handsquiet reflection and idea-sharinglate dinner of whatever’s in the fridgewhiskey dessertstargazingkissinglovingdreams

boniverotica:

Bon Iver is practicing letterpress. He made an itinerary for our Sunday.

wake early
breakfast (crusty bread with butter and marmalade)
tend to the garden and fences
kiss behind the woodpile
hike to the silo on the neighbor’s land to peek inside
walk to the cottonwood grove where we found the thing that might be an arrowhead
picnic in the cool shade (salad, berries, summer sausage and cheese)
fool around as the day slips past us
return home as slowly as possible, saying hello to every bush and critter
nap in the porch swing, holding hands
quiet reflection and idea-sharing
late dinner of whatever’s in the fridge
whiskey dessert
stargazing
kissing
loving
dreams

greatwhitewhale:

In the end, the thing that I got was never the thing that I wanted. This is not to say that the thing obtained was not as good—in fact, many times it was much, much better—only that in my life, and (I have a hunch) in all of ‘life,’ expectation and reality are fundamentally unbridgeable. 

Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, ‘Dear Jim: I loved your card.’ Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, ‘Jim loved your card so much he ate it.’ That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

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This wonderful anecdote about Maurice Sendak captures just about everything that made his work and spirit great. 

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There must be more to life than having everything!

—Maurice Sendak (1928 - 05/08/2012) RIP

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Clever scientific studies involving beepers and diaries suggest that an average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and that we have about two thousand of them per day. In other words, we spend about half of our waking hours — one-third of our lives on earth — spinning fantasies. We daydream about the past: things we should have said or done, working through our victories and failures. We daydream about mundane stuff such as imagining different ways of handling conflict at work. But we also daydream in a much more intense, storylike way. We screen films with happy endings in our minds, where all our wishes — vain, aggressive, dirty — come true. And we screen little horror films, too, in which our worst fears are realized.

—Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal

As long as we continue to place commercial profit above cultural profit, especially when it comes to archival materials and cultural preservation, we are doomed to a future bitterly divorced from its past.

—Some thoughts on what’s wrong with current thinking on intellectual property (via explore-blog)

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When I say it’s you I like, I’m talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.

—Fred Rogers (via creatingaquietmind)

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