Further Reading
[SCULPTURE]
Suspended Stone Circle — Ken Unsworth
[via agnsw]
[EXCERPT]
Bird by Bird — Anne Lamott
‘Let’s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world…Try walking around with a child who’s going, “Wow, wow! Look at that dirty dog! Look at that burned-down house! Look at that red sky!” And the child points, and you look, and you see, and you start going, “Wow! Look at that huge crazy hedge! Look at that teeny little baby! Look at the scary dark cloud!” I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world – present and in awe.’
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[via issue twelve]
[POEM]
Bennacht / Blessing — John O’Donohue
For Josie, my mother
On the day when
the weight deadens
on your shoulders
and you stumble,
may the clay dance
to balance you.
And when your eyes
freeze behind
the grey window
and the ghost of loss
gets into you,
may a flock of colours,
indigo, red, green
and azure blue,
come to awaken in you
a meadow of delight.
When the canvas frays
in the currach of thought
and a stain of ocean
blackens beneath you,
may there come across the waters
a path of yellow moonlight
to bring you safely home.
May the nourishment of the earth be yours,
may the clarity of light be yours,
may the fluency of the ocean be yours,
may the protection of the ancestors be yours.
And so may a slow
wind work these words
of love around you,
an invisible cloak
to mind your life.
[via Penguin]
[ART]
Untitled #5 (1998) — Agnes Martin
Caption options:
‘A sun-soaked euphoria.’
‘Getting high in her sunrise.’
[SONG]
Dandelions — Kurt Vile
[ ep cover via discogs ]
[PLANTS]
Sunflower — Southern Hemisphere
Daffodil — Northern Himsphere
[seed packets via thelabelman]
[SONG]
Angelika — Devendra Banhart
[via discogs]
[QUOTE]
Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God — Rainer Maria Rilke
‘If we surrendered
to earth intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees’
[via amazon]
