rocks, hills, and plains

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he'll come and make the blessings flow
far as the curse is found.

happy christmas indeed.

[picture from here]
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museum of modern art

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It was cold in the way that makes your thighs numb and the bus was forty minutes late, but spending the day in NYC was so worth it anyway. Especially because: (1) MoMA had a special exhibition on DeKooning. (2) Soy cinnamon lattes taste a lot better when you're drinking them as you walk through Times Square. (3) Derek is beyond patient with me when I stop us to pull out my camera every twenty minutes. (4) Walker Evans' photographs are a lot more stunning after you have studied them. (5) You get a lot of fashion inspiration by standing around art museums. (6) Shared apple cake and coffee at the cafe overlooking the sculpture garden was worth the somewhat ridiculous price we paid for it. (7) The design store was full of the best graph-papered artsy notebooks. (8) I like cities. (9) I have a ridiculously sweet brother.
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on the morrow

Going here with the brother. And here. Just a little excited to bundle up and see the city in the winter and to loose myself in a bit of good art and to have an all-day date with him.

I have been reading Letters to a Young Poet and remembering how good it is a to read a book just because I want to and I can. I have missed that all semester long. And so this --

"You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do no now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."
(Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet)

And the point is, to live everything.

[picture from here]
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silence

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I honestly have not seen anything as beautiful as these photos in a long time. I just keep staring and staring at them. All from the incredible Anna Aden.
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on prayer | 2

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[A little collection of quotes & things on prayer.]

Praying

It doesn't have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones; just
pay attention, then patch

a few words together and don't try
to make them elaborate, this isn't
a contest but the doorway

into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak.

(Mary Oliver)
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