May 2012
172 posts
“If you don’t feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of...”
– John Irving (via embracethevision)
redescubri: Natural light using a plastic bottle,... →
This is brilliant. We are going to put a couple of these in our chicken coops.
redescubri:
Electricity doesn’t come cheap but sunlight does. Unfortunately, and far too often, the later isn’t maximized and utilized. Passive lighting is one of the easiest ways to cut electricity costs during the day and reap the benefits of natural light and illumination. Many tiendas, bodegas and…
“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder ‘why, why, why?’...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“Terrifying Fact Number Two, is that I’ve just watched Matt Smith carrying a...”
– Steven Moffat
lather-rinse-retreat
and they’re letting this guy carry the torch through Cardiff.
(via matt-smith-socks)
“It may be that when we no longer know which way to go that we have come to our...”
– Wendell Berry (via iwillpracticeresurrection)
Walk In Beauty: The Peace of Wild Things When... →
rileymoreadhieladair:
The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of…
Like The Water by Wendell Berry
3atoms:
Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we cannot have it all, or want it all. In its abundance it survives our thirst. In the evening we come down to the shore to drink our fill, and sleep, while it flows through the regions of the dark. It does not hold us, except we keep returning to its rich waters thirsty. We enter,...
“Unlike the culture of the European Middle Ages, which honored the vocations of...”
– Wendell Berry (Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition)
Wendell Berry in my head all day.
screamedthedustspeck:
Breathe with unconditional breath
the unconditioned air.
Shun electric wire.
Communicate slowly. Live
a three-dimensioned life;
stay away from screens.
Stay away from anything
that obscures the place it is in.
There are no unsacred places;
there are sacred places
and desecrated places.
- from How to Write a Poem
