Madeleines are everywhere in the garden

Proust wrote somewhere that the reason beautiful places sometimes disappoint us in reality is that the imagination can only lay hold of that which is absent. It traffics not in the data of our senses, but in memories and dreams and desires. A garden will move us to the extent it engages the imagination as well as the senses. Among other things, the garden is a passage somewhere else - to the personal and shared past it's scents evoke, to the distant places to which it's forms allude. Gardens exist not only in the here and now, but in the there and then too. 

Michael Pollan - Second Nature 

If I was where I would be then I'd be where I am not

Karen Dalton - Katie Cruel

In the Sage

"I am lucky to see this view each day.. Am blessed, as I feel certain it is sacred ground." 

Entertainment

"The successful Entertainment will leave one finally with impressions of wit and freshness, with a multitude of quick kaleidoscopic sensations: arrival, joy, color stimulation; comfort, reflection, repose; sweetness, coolness, warmth, distant music; breaks, twists, shifts; wickedness, laughter and farewell.
It only takes the dart of the imagination at play, and one need never suffer or impose a dull dinner party again in life."


- Judith Olney

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If some day I should happen to have a secure life and all the time and opportunity in the world to write and publish, I know that I would be nostalgic for this uncertain life in which I scarcely write at all and publish nothing. I will feel nostalgic not only because this ordinary life is over and I will never have it again, but because there is in every kind of life a particular quality and a peculiar pleasure and when we move on to another life, even if it is a better one, that particular pleasure is dimmed, that particular quality impoverished, they cease to exist and one feels their loss. 

If one day I manage to carry the cross of my intentions to the ultimate calvary, I know that I will find another calvary within and will feel nostalgia for the days when I was futile, unpolished and imperfect. 

Fernano Pessoa - The Book of Disquiet

Kittens and Flowers

Little me

CO2

"There's a reason why industrial agriculture came about: we need to feed a growing population cheaply and efficiently. There are plenty of good reasons to criticize the consolidation of food production to a small group of corporations - but efficiency is not among those reasons. If we limit our concern to global warming, one wonders if it's really better to have twenty different farmers each deliver broccoli in their own trucks to the farmers market, compared to one veggie-packed truck delivering to multiple grocery stores."


Chris Ying - "Knowing is Half the Battle", MAD Symposium 'Guts' appendix: Lucky Peach 9, Fall 2013

"You will get me out of your thoughts in a week."

"Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since - on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made are not more real, or more impossible to be displaced by your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil.
But in this separation I associate you only with the good, and I will faithfully hold you always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. Oh God bless you, God forgive you!"


Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Falling

Ghost Of A Smile

Peder - Ghost Of A Smile