If we are willing to sacrifice
what is dearest to us,
in perfect submission,
we shall not be required to.
https://www.fomitepress.com/quarantine-notes.html
#QuarantineNotes
nostr:npub1kt3hutklgrma64ykjwk4trxq9rtyfnxhkjz729g4pd9xl7hzhrjse75004 #books #poetry #spirituality #writing #WritingCommunity
#Today's #meditation :
🪷
Of all books,
the most eloquent
reverberate with Silence.
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https://www.fomitepress.com/quarantine-notes.html
#books #poetry #wisdom
#Covid is Not Over:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/09/madeline-miller-long-covid-post-pandemic/
#covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #health #news #healthcare #politics #selfcare
Taedium vitae:
the first step
towards surrender
and the beginning
of #wisdom.
https://www.fomitepress.com/quarantine-notes.html
#poetry #life
👨🏻🍳Tasty, healthy, simple lunch :
turkey & cheese sandwich 🥪 w/homemade fries 🍟
#food #foodporn #photography #healthcare #health #selfcare
The kind things that readers say:
https://www.fomitepress.com/quarantine-notes.html
#books #bookstodon #book #reading #writing #WritingCommunity #poetry #poetrycommunity #gratitude
#Today's #meditation:
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Proceed with caution, then abandon.
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https://www.fomitepress.com/quarantine-notes.html
#quotes #books #life
What kind of times are these
When it's almost a crime to talk about trees
Because it means keeping still about so many evil deeds?
— Bertolt Brecht
#poetry #nature #politics #news #life
The astonishingly grand things readers say that make the #writing life worth it 🪷
https://www.fomitepress.com/quarantine-notes.html
#reading #WritingCommunity #writingwonders #gratitude #poetry #poetrycommunity
Shuttered Windows
To speak of the smell & feel of books, the erotics of the text, has begun to sound perverse
One by one, the old places of worship temples, bookstores, Nature herself become quaint and are vacated
In their stead a gleaming, ambitious screen part shuttered window, part distorting mirror full of wandering, restless spirits
Like so many ghosts in limbo —
free of the tyranny of bodies, yet aching for their phantom limbs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bGQL14Hv5w #poetry #writing #internet #computers
@ The Beach 🌊
#beach #beachlife #ocean #birds #birdphotography #BirdsOfMastodon
#Maryland #usa #photography #photo #photos #bird #birding
#Egypt is a mad mother
that devours her children:
#culture #home #familyhistory #love
Memory has its own geographies —
not all of which can be found on a map.
https://www.fomitepress.com/quarantine-notes.html #book
#memories #meditation #time #books
With #DonaldTrump back in the picture, revisiting this #book of essays I was a part of (from McSweeneys) which began its life as a #petition to impeach #Trump:
22 powerful pieces from artists & activists: Lev Grossman, Rick Moody, Matthew Zapruder, Terrance Hayes & yours truly ✌🏼
nostr:npub1kt3hutklgrma64ykjwk4trxq9rtyfnxhkjz729g4pd9xl7hzhrjse75004 #books #bookstodon #artist #activism #elections #politics #usa #news #fascism #boost
🙏🏼 Amor Fati 🙇🏻♂️
You should arm yourself,
not like a Caesar with a raised sword
against the world, but with the words:
Amor Fati—love your fate.
You shall make this axiom
your strongest liberator;
You have chosen your path in the thicket.
Don't look sideways at other paths!
—André Bjerke,
#translation by Hossein Kashani
( #Art by Elena Ray)
#poetry #philosophy #spirituality
nostr:npub1xs29h7wuu6x909venuxtjjtvrsm03hnl46snw4su8gkc0fnpvh0skjje7n nostr:npub177wreehs57nrp8lr0y7g80y0pxx7gmkxgrcre7fymgsj9jq0lj8sqm6nue Yes, of course, I can see how this case might be made & second it — preferring, as much as possible to live off the grid.
A Colombian friend showed me a copy of my #book of aphorisms, Signposts to Elsewhere (Hay House)
To my astonishment, I saw that he had translated all 300 aphorisms into #Spanish!
#LatinAmerica , as I’ve come to know it over the years, is rich in its appreciation of #language, especially, ‘dichos’ ( sayings).
I hope a Spanish publisher might do me the honor of introducing my work to this sympathetic culture 🙌🏼
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Yahia%20Lababidi/author/B0042SRQWG #books
nostr:npub1kt3hutklgrma64ykjwk4trxq9rtyfnxhkjz729g4pd9xl7hzhrjse75004 #translation #colombia #life
In every reported case where #police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been #Black :
#ai #Tech #BlackAndWhite #blackmastodon #BlackFedi #usa #politics #racism #news #artificialintelligence #technology #technews
Chicken parm in 4 easy steps 👨🏻🍳
#food #foodporn #foodie #cooking #recipe #health #selfcare #photography #photo
‘I am not a man but a cloud in trousers.’
— George Balanchine (1904-1983)
#quotes #motivation
