You've got a fast car.

jordantiberio: Jordan Tiberio, Nicholas, Richmond, VA. February...

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:01:44 -0400

Jordan Tiberio, Nicholas, Richmond, VA. February 2013.

"All your ways are loving and are faithful, The road is narrow but your burden light, Because you..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 16:40:39 -0400

“All your ways are loving and are faithful,
The road is narrow but your burden light,
Because you gladly lean to lead the humble,
I shall gladly kneel to leave my pride.”

- Like Incense

awkwardsituationist: “not natasha,” a photographic essay on...

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:29:12 -0400

awkwardsituationist:

“not natasha,” a photographic essay on eastern european sex trafficked slaves by dana popa

(documentary, the real sex traffic; film, lilya 4-ever)

"Your statutes are my heritage forever, My heart is set on keeping your decrees, Please still my..."

Tue, 07 May 2013 16:14:00 -0400

“Your statutes are my heritage forever,
My heart is set on keeping your decrees,
Please still my anxious urge toward rebellion,
Let love keep my will upon its knees.”

- Like Incense

Anyone else fucking scared to return home?

Mon, 06 May 2013 18:55:13 -0400

Anyone else fucking scared to return home?

"Each map in this book diagrams the one thing we most want a map to show us, and that is a way home."

Mon, 06 May 2013 18:06:48 -0400

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/04/02/mapping-manhattan-becky-cooper/

Wouldn’t it be cool to bring this project to Singapore?

"Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool."

Mon, 06 May 2013 01:07:01 -0400

“Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool.”

- Robert Brault (via lunaoki)

"The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks..."

Sat, 04 May 2013 14:30:00 -0400

“The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest. He is a fellow who thoroughly enjoys his work, just as people who take bird walks enjoy theirs. Each new excursion of the essayist, each new “attempt,” differs from the last and takes him into new country. This delights him. Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays.”

- E. B. White

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/04/18/e-b-white-on-egoism-and-the-art-of-the-essay/

One day baby we’ll be oldOh baby we’ll be oldAnd...

Fri, 03 May 2013 22:54:05 -0400

One day baby we’ll be old
Oh baby we’ll be old
And think of all the stories we could have told

YOUTH EXEMPLIFIED IN A SONG

We’re adrift on a sailboat,My love is the seaYours is the...

Thu, 02 May 2013 01:51:35 -0400

We’re adrift on a sailboat,
My love is the sea
Yours is the horizon,
Constant and steady

Boats by Cyril Wong

Wed, 01 May 2013 10:45:38 -0400

You and your photographs of boats;
that repeated metaphor for departure,

or simply the possibility of a voyage?
What you cannot tell me, you tell me

with a vessel and its single passenger,
eyes fixed on some skylit conclusion.

Set apart and starkly upon a canvas
of tractable waves, brought to still

by the trigger-click of your camera,
like the sound a key makes when it

releases the lock. Your heart became
that lock; these images are how you have

always articulated distance, a withdrawal.
Darling, there are just as many ways

of saying goodbye as there are ways
of letting you go. The boat is narrow

like the width of my heart after
impossible loss, cruel resignation;

this heart you ride in. Love, if this is how
you choose to leave me, let me let you.

from Below: Absence

artgutowski: Dhaka, Bangladesh 5 km to airport Will be here in...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:50:57 -0400

artgutowski:

Dhaka, Bangladesh

5 km to airport

Will be here in less than a month!

Rachel Aviv, God Knows Where I Am, The New Yorker, May 30, 2011.

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 14:49:02 -0400

Rachel Aviv, God Knows Where I Am, The New Yorker, May 30, 2011.

"It was easier when I could think the way that everyone else seems to think: that a brain is just a..."

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:28:58 -0400

“

It was easier when I could think the way that everyone else seems to think: that a brain is just a brain, iconic in its structure. I used to picture gray strands, film, all of it looped and loped together. Now I see apartment buildings, poorly constructed and impossibly built, the kind you find along highways. I picture homes stacked above other homes, people cooking omelets on broken burners, heaters plugged in and oscillating. Most days, the residents of these homes live peacefully among one another—they take showers, sing songs, and bake brownies—but one day, an oven’s left on. Or someone forgets to unplug the iron. Or maybe that’s not it, either—maybe the people have nothing to do with it at all. But still come these chemical explosions, far too small and too complex to see, sending red, sparking embers into the drywall of our minds.

“Fire!” we say. “Fire!” But still we stand there and watch it burn.

”

- Sick, Amy Butcher. http://therumpus.net/2013/01/sick/

explore-blog: Simple, stirring cover by Boston magazine design...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:05:04 -0400

explore-blog:

Simple, stirring cover by Boston magazine design director Brian Struble using actual running shoes worn in last week’s Boston marathon.

Places in Spaces

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:17:59 -0400

So many places on my mind today. Boston, Burma, China, Bangladesh. Three out of four of these places are currently going through horrendous things - so much pain and loss. They have different ties to me - one is my ancestral homeland. Another is my adopted one. The third lit me up, and still does. And the fourth - the fourth is where I will be for the next few months.

Have feet, will walk - in search of places in spaces.

Perspective

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:42:25 -0400

Perspective

Note to Self:

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:33:12 -0400

1. Just follow a couple of news sources, like NPR and Boston Globe, who are trying their best to be factual. Stay awaaay from the TV.

2. Look at animal pictures. Like these. And be thankful for Buzzfeed’s existence.

3. Be with people you love.

4. Exercise control over your fingers and try not to post unhelpful things on Facebook.

5. Eat.

6. And sleep.

Balloon sellers in Afghanistan[sources: 01 - 02 - 03 - 04 - 05...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 23:21:14 -0400

Balloon sellers in Afghanistan
[sources: 01 - 02 - 03 - 04 - 05 - 06]

Overdone but no less beautiful.

"You go about God’s work in your way, and I’ll go about it in His."

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:04:48 -0400

““You go about God’s work in your way, and I’ll go about it in His.””