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David Reader 📚🐳

@ThepaleUsher

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waiting for a rebirth of wonder

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David Reader 📚🐳

@ThepaleUsher

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. . . what the average citizen can not or will not do, is enjoy solitude, to live simply, to crave nothing, and to share what he has when called upon. (16) Henry Miller / Big Sur

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"We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is." Vonnegut Timequake

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blooming in times of uncertainty

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Give me a wilderness whose glance no civilization can endure. Thoreau / Walking

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2 years

Everyone is carrying a light that was given to be shared. Joy Harjo

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7 years

I need an ocean to teach me: whatever it is that I learn - music or consciousness, the single wave in the sea, the abyss of my being Neruda

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6 years

the veil of night falls gently

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5 years

It was of a night, late, lang time agone, in an auldstane eld . . . Finnegans Wake

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6 years

And the Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast Rose from the dreams of its wintry rest. Shelley

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This is the sadness of the sea - waves like words, all broken - a sameness of lifting and falling mood. William Carlos Williams

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6 months

Now there is nothing in this world I abominate worse, than to be interrupted in a story— (326) Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy

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I am surprised for the thousandth time at the beauty of the landscape, and I sit down to behold it at my leisure. Thoreau’s Journal October 7, 1857

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2 years

The extraordinary patience of things! …the people are a tide That swells and in time will ebb, and all Their works dissolve. Meanwhile the image of the pristine beauty Lives in the very grain of the granite Robinson Jeffers from “Carmel Point”

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6 years

descending, and I through this... entered the quiet air the new sky, the light as after a sun-set Ezra Pound

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And when even dies, the million-tinted, And the night has come, and planets glinted, Lo, the valley hollow Lamp-bestarred! Robert Louis Stevenson In the Highlands

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4 years

Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see! But microscopes are prudent In an emergency! Emily Dickinson Letter to Samuel Bowles (1860)

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8 years

The art of living : Filling the blank pages of each day in memorable ways

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6 years

sun . setting spectacular . sky

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4 years

I wish you were here

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6 years

I am for balance . . . Ezra Pound / Canto LXX

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7 years

I and this mystery, here we stand Walt Whitman

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2 years

You may say I’m a dreamer, But I’m not the only one . . .

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5 years

There is a certain part of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless. Kundera / Immortality

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6 years

a world in a window, darkly

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Along the way under the gray

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4 years

reading Annie Dillard: I have a taste for solitude, and silence, and for what Plotinus called “the flight of the alone to the Alone.” I have a taste for solitude. Teaching a Stone to Talk, Expeditions and Encounters

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I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. H. D. Thoreau / Walden @consertum

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6 years

there are sounds the planet will always make, even if there is no one to hear them. Jorie Graham

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Day’s arches are crumbling into the autumn night. The fire falls a little and the book is done. The stillness is the stillness of the mind. Slowly the room grows dark. Wallace Stevens/ The Novel

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6 years

passing . days . hours . minutes never returning—never ending

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4 years

Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the horizon, — to behold and commune with something grander than man. Thoreau’s Journal August 14, 1854

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can’t find my way home

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The mistake one makes is to speak to people. Beckett from First Love

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54. ::2022:: “The stimulus of reading is indispensable to me…even if, of every book, I manage to read no more than a few pages. But those few pages already enclose for me whole universes, which I can never exhaust.” Italo Calvino If on a winter’s night a traveler 4.5/5 ⭐️

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Night is the proper and normal state of the special creation of which we form a part. The day, brief in duration as in space, is only proximity to a star. Victor Hugo

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2 years

again this year . . . I am waiting for a rebirth of wonder

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6 years

slow-dancing sunset

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2 years

perpetually waiting

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4 years

Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it life? Mary Oliver

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3 years

What sky! What light! Ah in spite of all it is a blessed thing to be alive in such weather, and out of hospital. Beckett All That Fall

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4 years

There was only myself and the world, and it was I who was leaving. And what could I sing then? Oh, beautiful world! I just lay there and looked at it. And then it grew dark. That day was done with. Mary Oliver

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5 years

Spring morning in Southern California

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Sittin’ on the dock of the bay Watching the tide roll away . . . #MelvilleMonday 🐳

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3 years

as if awakening from a long sleep

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Along the way (this morning)

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4 years

The abyss doesn’t divide us. The abyss surrounds us. Wislawa Szymborska

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Good morning to the World

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Ahoy, Shipmates! Happy #MelvilleMonday ! . . . he had but little learning except what he had picked up from the sun and the sea. Moby-Dick, Ch. 83

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I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife... John Masefield

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- "Well? Shall we go?" - "Yes, let's go." They do not move. S. Beckett / Waiting for Godot

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And the sea Always the sea

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--A glimmer of dream will guide thee in every abyss, A glimmer of dream. Amado Nervo Tr. Samuel Beckett

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and the leaves shine like “a thousand splendid suns”

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6 years

poetry without words (for those who have a moment )

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—to feel Greatly, and understand greatly, and express greatly, the natural Beauty, is the business of poetry. Robinson Jeffers

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Twilight’s Last Gleaming

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Once upon a time . . .

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Along the way Happy Thanksgiving

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April twilight

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In spite of everything, let’s just go on. What else can we do?

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Some things that stay there be, - Grief, hills, eternity... Emily #Dickinson

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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it. Emily Dickinson from a letter (1873)

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3 years

still waiting

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September’s lights

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8 years

Every year you shall bloom again, out from where you retired you shall emerge again Walt Whitman

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Beauty - be not caused - It is - Chase it, and it ceases - Chase it not, and it abides - Emily Dickinson

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The weak sea wavered in her rocks and Venus hung over the west between the cliff-butts / Like the last angel of the world, the crystal night deepening. Robinson Jeffers / Tamar

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Here. Now.

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and the light goes out . . .

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Along the way The colors of summer

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I spent part of the day re-shelving

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You ask me why I make my home in the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet: it lives in the other world which no one owns. The peach trees blossom. The water flows. Li Po

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after the rain - between showers

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How lush the world is, how full of things that don't belong to me. Louise Glück Vespers: Parousia

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6 years

here comes the next rainstorm

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2 years

We must learn to suffer what can not be avoided. Our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, also of diverse tones, sweet and harsh, keen and dull, soft and solemn. Montaigne

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3 years

reading Middlemarch #Middlemarch21 #Caturday

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Is it possible, after all, that…this world we live in is brimmed with wonders, and I and all mankind, beneath our garbs of common-placeness, conceal enigmas that the stars themselves, and perhaps the highest seraphim can not resolve? #MelvilleMonday Pierre, Book VII, viii

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