“i have promises to break.”

- michael robbins

atonement.

newspaperblackout: Newspaper Blackout Horoscopes for February 2012 by Austin Kleon

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boston book shop.

bookmania: Brattle Book Shop at 9 West Street in Boston, Massachusetts. One of America’s oldest and largest used book shops, the Brattle features an outside sale lot, two floors of general used books, and a third floor of rare & antiquarian books. Housed in a three-story building in the heart of Downtown Boston, The Brattle Book Shop carries an impressive stock of over 250,000 books, maps, prints, postcards and ephemeral items in all subjects. In addition to its general used and out-of-print stock, The Brattle Book Shop also maintains an inventory of collectibles, first editions and fine leather bindings in its rare book room. (photos by Lance Gagnon)

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keep going.

newspaperblackout: A blackout by shakethesky

sent to me today by an old friend. prefect timing. thank you.

The Journey

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice -
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.

It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do -
determined to save
the only life you could save.

dream seed:

every night a house collapses
in my chest the sink
upstairs falls into the tub
downstairs floorboards erupt
into a riot of matchsticks

thanks, blue crane standing, for reminding me of this.

live deliberately.

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” 
-Thoreau

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of all the things
I have been long without
tonight

a pair of needle-nosed pliers
would solve
99% of my problems

what I took for granted
as de facto
turns out was privilege

the physical tactile
precision
of the workshop

a level pencil T-Rule
pencil mark hammer
hammer hammer nails straight

craft
is perfection
not ideology

- Mogolodi Bond

Burning

There is a hidden kind
Of humble goodness
I love in others

Only an aeon
Of refining fire
Could make it mine

But sometimes it’s as if
I were already burning.

   - Anne Porter

cc: @mogolodi