Caine's Arcade - I love this kid

Passing Through - Stanley Kunitz

Nobody in the widow's household

ever celebrated anniversaries.

In the secrecy of my room

I would not admit I cared

that my friends were given parties.

Before I left town for school

my birthday went up in smoke

in a fire at City Hall that gutted

the Department of Vital Statistics.

If it weren't for a census report

of a five-year-old White Male

sharing my mother's address

at the Green Street tenement in Worcester

I'd have no documentary proof

that I exist. You are the first,

my dear, to bully me

into these festive occasions.

Sometimes, you say, I wear

an abstracted look that drives you

up the wall, as though it signified

distress or disaffection.

Don't take it so to heart.

Maybe I enjoy not-being as much

as being who I am. Maybe

it's time for me to practice

growing old. The way I look

at it, I'm passing through a phase:

gradually I'm changing to a word.

Whatever you choose to claim

of me is always yours:

nothing is truly mine

except my name. I only

borrowed this dust.

Self Pity – D.H Lawrence

I never saw a wild thing

sorry for itself.

A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough

without ever having felt sorry for itself.

sticks and stones

Quartz enhances energy by absorbing, storing, amplifying, balancing, focusing and transmitting. It channels universal energy. Quartz also enhances thoughts, as they are a form of energy. Because it directs and amplifies energy, it is extremely beneficial for manifesting, healing, meditation, protection, and channeling. It is also beneficial for storing and retrieving information of all types, as information is a form of energy pattern also. Quartz is excellent for harmonizing and balancing one's environment.

Fantin Latour Henri

Eckhart Tolle

                 Just Once by Anne Sexton

              Just once I knew what life was for.
              In Boston, quite suddenly, I understood;
              walked there along the Charles River,
              watched the lights copying themselves,
              all neoned and strobe-hearted, opening
              their mouths as wide as opera singers;
              counted the stars, my little campaigners,
              my scar daisies, and knew that I walked my love
              on the night green side of it and cried
              my heart to the eastbound cars and cried
              my heart to the westbound cars and took
              my truth across a small humped bridge
              and hurried my truth, the charm of it, home
              and hoarded these constants into morning
              only to find them gone.

I first saw this creature outside my door yesterday and thought it was a moth. But then today it flew into my room and I saw what it really was... a beautiful butterfly! It stayed for two days.

Andy Gilmore

Let there be light

tchmo

Scott Moore oil painting

The spirit

I used to pass this everyday, everyday I thought how ridiculous.

Mike Sinclair

This is so beautiful

You can watch it free on youtube here

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Seattle Tubing Society, by Burt Glinn

The world is getting louder every year, but to sit and dream is a beautiful thing - David Lynch

David Lynch's interview project gives a snapshot into people's lives. The interviews are funny, sincere, moving and make me want to go for a long drive down a dirt road. 
Hope you enjoy.

CLICK HERE to watch 

Yes. Please.

Some kind hearted soul has just lent me SIX seasons of Beverly Hills 90210 DVD's to watch...

suddenly I'm 15 again!

You never know what will find you

I went to check the letter box last night and found no mail but plenty of new friends...

Found on the way to work...

The seven principles of Huna:

1. The world is what you think it is

2. There are no limits

3. Energy flows where attention goes

4. Now is the moment of power

5. To love is to be happy with (someone or something)

6. All power comes from within

7. Effectiveness is the measure of truth

The winner of the 2011 Ernest Hemingway look alike contest is... Matt Gineo

CONGRATULATIONS!!