“Take a clock that has lost its hands for a ride.” - Charles Simic “I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.” - Mary Oliver

United States
Joined June 2013
“O what daybreak in the windows!”Czeslaw Milosz says good morning, and so do I. Go read something that helps you find joy and see the miraculous in the ordinary.
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Sweet balm for the soul
One of Bach’s most timeless masterpieces, delivered with God-given talent. Pure perfection. HAUSER - Air on the G String (J. S. Bach)
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Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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Petras Lukošius (Lithuanian b.1956) Morning Light, 2019 oil on canvas
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“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.” - Gaston Bachelard
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I see the wind in the trees and I want to live
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Artem Rohovyi (1988-) - Symphony of Branches
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Andrew Wyeth - "Wind From The Sea" (1947)
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The joy of uncertainty “We can make little of daring… Therefore my song - bolder! Let in the wind! Open the windows! Embrace the companion That is whistling, waiting Impatiently to receive us!” Rendezvous by William Carlos Williams #poetry
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Paul Evans (1954-) - Winter evening
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Old stomping ground in Miami 📚What a pleasure to be back at Books & Books
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Still thinking about this bookshop in Aspen, CO. Incredible collection. Packed full of treasures.
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“to do no permanent wrong to anything of permanent worth to earth’s life, known or unknown, now or ever” - Wendell Berry
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Remove a letter, ruin a book: The Bothers Karamazov
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Mary Oliver, “Don’t Hesitate”, Devotions
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