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“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
Tom Stoppard
“Can there be anything more stupendous than the conception that the universe has no beginning and no end, but passes everlastingly from growth to equilibrium, from equilibrium to decline, from decline to dissolution, from dissolution to growth, and so on to all eternity?”
William Somerset Maugham
“A race of Stars was in progress and their sails gleamed dazzling white against the azure.”
William Somerset Maugham
“Unless love is passion, it’s not love, but something else and passion thrives not on satisfaction, but on impediment.”
William Somerset Maugham
#papercuts
“I can only tell you that the intense sense of peace, joy, and assurance that possessed me in that moment of rapture abides with me still and that the vision of the world’s beauty is as fresh and vivid now as when my eyes were dazzled by it.”
William Somerset Maugham
the snow of Italy
over my radio now
comes the sound of a truly mad organ,
I can see some monk
drunk in a cellar
mind gone or found,
talking to God in a different way;
I see candles and this man has a red beard
as God has a red beard;
it is snowing, it is Italy, it is cold
and the bread is hard
and there is no butter,
only wine
wine in purple bottles
with giraffe necks,
and now the organ rises, again,
he violates it,
he plays it like a madman,
there is blood and spit in his beard,
he wants to laugh but there isn’t time,
the sun is going out,
then his fingers slow,
now there is exhaustion and the dream,
yes, even holiness,
man going to man,
to the mountain, the elephant, the star,
and a candle falls
but continues to burn upon its side,
a wax puddle shining in the eyes
of my red monk,
there is moss on the walls
and the stain of thought and failure and
waiting,
then again the music comes like hungry tigers,
and he laughs,
it is a child’s laugh, an idiot’s laugh,
laughing at nothing,
the only laugh that understands,
he holds the keys down
like stopping everything
and the room blooms with madness,
~Bukowski
as the poppies stain heart and hand
“As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES. In doing this, he is fulfilling a need (giving himself identity by functioning in a set pattern toward a set goal) he avoids frustrating his potential (choosing a path which puts no limit on his self-development), and he avoids the terror of seeing his goal wilt or lose its charm as he draws closer to it (rather than bending himself to meet the demands of that which he seeks, he has bent his goal to conform to his own abilities and desires).
In short, he has not dedicated his life to reaching a pre-defined goal, but he has rather chosen a way of life he KNOWS he will enjoy. The goal is absolutely secondary: it is the functioning toward the goal which is important. And it seems almost ridiculous to say that a man MUST function in a pattern of his own choosing; for to let another man define your own goals is to give up one of the most meaningful aspects of life — the definitive act of will which makes a man an individual.”
~ Hunter S. Thompson
bees and poppies
#permaculture #flowerfarm #bees #meditation #flowersmakemehappy #canadianflowers #ontariofarm #hugelkultur #pollinators #raisedbeds #flowers #flowerstudy #pollination #ontarioflowers #poppies
Botanical Cyanotype, side B, created with Alliums grown @cardboardrealityfarm made @cardboardrealitystudio
Botanical Cyanotype, side A, created with Alliums grown @cardboardrealityfarm made @cardboardrealitystudio
Botanical Cyanotype, created with Alliums grown @cardboardrealityfarm made @cardboardrealitystudio
Black Locust, False Solomon, Fleabane Daisy, & Dame’s Rocket Botanical flower prints. Wash with wild wild grape, staghorn sumac, goldenrod, & blueberry inks.
allium prints, homemade inks grown @cardboardrealityfarm made @cardboardrealitystudio
#printmaking #artsaddvalue #bringingtheartstolife #canadianartist
Allium flower print, goldenrod ink, grape ink, and sumac ink, grown @cardboardrealityfarm made @cardboardrealitystudio
