these are a few of my favourite things.

islands.
salt and vinegar.
thunderstorms.
treehouses.
grizzly bears.
airports.
hammocks.
sandalwood.
irony.
department stores.
atlases.
bonfires.
caramel.
gardenias.
liquor bottles.
sheepskin.
drum solos.

“When I grow up, I too will go to faraway places and come home to live by the sea.”
“That is all very well, little Alice,” says my aunt, “but there is a third thing you must do.”
“What is that?” I ask.
“You must do something to make the world more beautiful.”

- Miss Rumphius, by Barbara Cooney

mouth wooed her

"Then I should like to ask you about it - about love and what it meant to you. Perhaps then your eyes will hold more than beauty, perhaps they will be stern and wise and they will answer: poverty has played so great a part in my life that it has choked love. Now I neither cry nor laugh. I have never been able to struggle for love, because the struggle for bread has consumed all my strength.'

- Walter Scheonstedt, The Girl from the River Barge

dinner party lists

everyone has one. this is mine

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Elsa Schiaparelli
Fred Hollows
Grace Abbott
Rudolf Nureyev
Sophia Loren
St. Augustine
Ryan Adams
Nagi Noda
Mark Twain
Eudora Welty
Max Ehrmann
Dash Snow
A.A Milne
Steve Earle
e.e cummings
Mary Kingsley

and that's that

come back 1987, all is forvigen

working on it...

Part 4: Our Very Sleep Is Action

To climb this mountain would be to defeat it; to conquer that which is not ours to tame. So we sit at its feet in our own humility and shit and tears and let it be the vanguard of the living, the protector of our briefly mourned and swiftly forgotten pathetic souls