favorite waves

December 19

“ my ceiling the sky, my carpet the grass,
my music the lowing of herds as they pass;
my books are the brooks, my sermons the stones,
my parson’s a wolf on a pulpit of bones. allen mccanless (cowboy poet), 1885 (via cosmic-dust)

November 28

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October 20

Philip Whalen on Writing and Meditation

crashinglybeautiful:

“The real tension, I think, is between official poetry, the kind that we’re taught in school and is kept in libraries, and the kind we really believe in - what we are writing and what our friends write. The same thing holds for meditation: what we discover for ourselves and learn. At some point you can forget it and go off and make a pot of spaghetti. We used to do go down to Muir Beach years ago to gather mussels off the rocks. We’d build a bonfire, put seaweed on the fire to steam the mussels. We’d eat them, then jump up and down in the waves and have fun. That was enough. Probably enough. Or too much. Oh, I guess Blake said it, “Enough, or too much.” That’s all.”

— Philip Whalen

(Photo by Larry Keenan)

(thanks to Wood s Lot for the link)

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“ The mythologist Joseph Campbell was asked by an interviewer how a regular person could preserve his sense of the mythic when so many feel too besieged by the claims of every day living. He said, “You must have a place to which you can go, in your heart, in your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not know what you owe anyone or what anyone owes you. You must have a place you can go to where you do not know what your work is or who you work for, where you do not know who you are married to or who your children are. from When I Wax (via crashinglybeautiful)

September 20

“ Often enough God gives man a glimpse of happiness, and then utterly ruins him. Solon (in The Histories by Herodotus, Book I) (via whokilled) (via smut-to-go)

August 8

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July 21

cosmic-dust:

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