February 2012
19 posts
The Sciences Sing A Lullabye, by Albert Goldbarth
Physics says: Go to sleep. Of course you’re tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. Quit tapping your feet. They’ll dance inside themselves without you. Go to sleep.
Geology says: It will be all right. Slow inch by inch America is giving itself to the ocean. Go to sleep. Let darkness lap at your sides. Give darkness an inch. You aren’t...
“I sat watching a flower as it was withering. I was embarrassed by its honesty.”
– Conor Oberst
“Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one...”
– Claude Monet
Anonymous asked: Who are five of your favorite people on tumblr?
“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and...”
– Mary Oliver; Starlings in Winter
awiltingrose asked: I don't have the words to express just how magical and beautiful your blog is. I am so grateful I found it xo
“I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at...”
– Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love
January 2012
22 posts
“They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the...”
– Jeanette Winterson
How do I stop feeling so sad?
“She is a rarer creature than you dare to dream. She is a myth, a memory, a...”
– The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
Anonymous asked: You are the very best thing, my darling. Your words are like stardust on my skin. I whisper to my moon, knowing that the two of you are very best friends, being as beautiful as you are, how could you not be?
“Very gently and quietly, almost as if it were the blood singing in her veins, or...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
December 2011
22 posts
“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
unprophete asked: May your sky always be clear, may your dear smile always be bright and happy, and may you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Your blog is enchanting guide to all dreamer's outh there... for Natasha
“And did you feel it, in your heart, how it pertained to everything?
And have...”
– Mary Oliver, The Swan (excerpt)
