When laughter feasts, sadness starves.
quotes
Tickle me pink & atomic tangerine
I can tell it’s probably not going to be much of a productive day when I spend ten minutes over morning coffee trying to match each color of the sunrise to its corresponding crayon.
Counterbalance
No matter how frustrating and scary everything else seems to be in this crazy world, at least there’s this: it’s pumpkin pie season!
Aegrotum sanare
Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.
Gilt
Can a good person be both a tree hugger and a book lover, when one has to be murdered to create the other?
Imperfect
“I weep over my imperfect pages, but if future generations read them, they will be more touched by my weeping than by any perfection I might have achieved, since perfection would have kept me from weeping and, therefore, from writing.”
—Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935), translated by Richard Zenith, 2015
Reformulated
Perhaps age is just youth
— old and improved!
Shadow-sweet
If beer tastes too much of cheer,
well then it borders on porter.
Morning routine
Breathe, thank, pray, rise,
Symptomatic
A maltreated body will cry out in symptoms.
Startup
Spring stirs under silent snow.
Suffering in silence
If you don’t know anyone who has it worse than you, trust this —
Summer saguaro
With fruity-fingered arms, I hug the sky.
