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from Portraits of Fish by Ian Bickford
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Because I’ve been indoors all morning,
the windows stone-white
with the mist from the bath
water; because
the first cycle is never enough
to dry the laundry;
because the teakettle whistling
has woken me from where I doze
on the sofa, I rake
my hair, button my shirt,
and sit at the table
with a red pen to make notes
in a notebook. But in the absence
of language, I draw the...
June 2011
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May 2011
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However can you expect to understand the bigness of the world if you do not see...
– Lori Ostlund, The Bigness of the World
April 2011
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senselessmurmurs asked: are a majority of the drawings on this blog original? they're AMAZING:)
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March 2011
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I remember
By the first of August the invisible beetles began to snore and the grass was as tough as hemp and was no color–no more than the sand was a color and we had worn our bare feet bare since the twentieth of June and there were times we forgot to wind up your alarm clock and some nights we took our gin warm and neat from old jelly glasses while the sun blew out of sight like a red...
February 2011
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Clever Crows Use Tools in New Way | Wired Science... →
Cool animal alert: New Caledonian crows.
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I couldn’t step foot outside of my apartment without seeing another person. That...
– Per Square Mile
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January 2011
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December 2010
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October 2010
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Giant Prehistoric Penguin Found →
cafecubano:
Penguins used to be as tall as I am. I think that makes them less cute but easier to cuddle with
How is a GIANT PENGUIN not cute? Best news of the day.
September 2010
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The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the...
– Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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The ‘tiny house’ movement | Need To Know | PBS Video
Living in a tiny house in Portland sounds kind of appealing, actually. I like tiny things and I don’t like having lots of stuff. I do like indoor plumbing, though.
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