the forest has my heart
(I keep it in my heart)
Dream Bleed
Fell asleep and had a dream about freeing a tiger while I wore a coat made of stars. Woke up with my tiger next to my head.
Upon what lands shall my wandering feet venture? Hobbes is helping me decide...
The Art of the Bath
What can set us right again is candlelight and soaking in warm water.
Ceremony
Rebuilding universes out here from a red chair.
'slept all night in the cedar grove
I was born to ramble, born to rove'
—Tom Waits
How the Heart Stays Warm
Our thoughts are forming the world.
—A teabag
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
—Nietzsche
I brought, from my walk yesterday, a purple thistle and a dandelion cluster home with me, and drew them both in great and loving detail; I also did a rather bad drawing of a teapot and some chestnuts, but will improve with practice; it gives me such a sense of peace to draw; more than prayer, walks, anything. I can close myself completely in the line, lose myself in it.
—from a letter to Ted Hughes, Oct 1956
