A list of beautiful things #26
'You are living in a poem'
The war on Palestine is very much still on my mind, but I would also like to take a moment to find things that inspire me and give me energy and motivation to keep paying attention and taking action. I hope you do that for yourself too.
The Japanese art of yutori, or living with spaciousness. “It’s leaving early enough to get somewhere so that you know you’re going to arrive early, so when you get there, you have time to look around.”
“When you’re in a very quiet place, when you’re remembering, when you’re savoring an image, when you’re allowing your mind calmly to leap from one thought to another, that’s a poem. That’s what a poem does.”
“There are people I love, but if they feel that they need to go, I ain't going to be the one to stop them. I would only wish them wings, as it were.” — Sylvia Plath’s daughter Frieda Hughes in Vanity Fair.
Absolutely fucking mesmerized by the art of Pete Mauney, I can’t believe I’ve never seen his work before.
Ambient music where the pedal steel guitar is the star.
This was delightful and I’m adding it to my Christmas movie cannon.
“We didn’t ask for a fish. He … did it.” This 20-minute, thought-provoking documentary is full of delightful surprises (including the subject’s love for Ethan Hawke).
The original version of “Carol of the Bells” is a Ukrainian folk song.
“But I have to tell you, there’s a guy out there … combatting noise with birdsong.”
And some little things from me