your own light

Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you? 
-Ray Bradbury

art of animals

All things beautiful.
via Anthropologie

holiday

chances

Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck. 
- Lemony Snicket

in waters so blue

via Life on Sundays

little blades

via Going Once

i will never love you more

 An old & great film for Kate Spade.

otherwise

the room he brings into you

the room befalls you

like the fir trees he trues her

she nears him like the firs

if one vanishes one stays

if one stays the other will or will not vanish

otherwise my beautiful green fly

otherwise not a leaf stirs

- C.D. Wright, from Floating Trees, one of my (many) favorite poems 

love

via Je te veux. N'arrete pas.

cupid & the lion

via Arquebus Clothing

neon surfing

This is SO cool

via Aubrey Road

still

Marcelo Montecino, Bustamante 4, Santiago, 1969

via Moon to Moon

the eyes that see so sharply

Skinlessness…makes a poet. One must have the gift of language, but even a great gift is useless without the other curse: the eyes that see so sharply they often want to close.
-Erica Jong, about Anne Sexton via Mythology of Blue

(image: Stella McCartney)

(old) school map

our own warm breath

Parts of the poem "Tidings" by Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz.

holiday

Can't wait to see my Thanksgiving crew. xo

like crazy

everything

Everything else remained the same.  This is why, you said, there was no fiction.
-Rosemarie Waldrop, Feverish Propositions 

Image: Royal Quiet Deluxe

a year in New York

A Year in New York from Andrew Clancy on Vimeo.

just hug

In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard. 
-Zooey Deschanel

(both via i just might)

block island

where it was

All water has a perfect memory & is forever trying to get back to where it was.
-Toni Morrison, spotted on the side of the corner church at 110th & Amsterdam

(image via aubreyrd tumbrl)

understand

Understand, I love you, even as I turn from you like this, stumbling breathless down a dim and disappearing street behind a man who squints at house numbers, bewildered, about to say something I can almost hear.

- Marie Howe via Royal Quiet Deluxe

possibility

This is what you learned in graduate school: In every assumption is contained the possibility of its opposite.
- Pam Houston

Photo by Justin Farrar

to the waves

West Side Gathering
Hurricane Earl, 2010
Block Island

like fire ants

you are the blood flowing through my fingers, all through the soil & up in those trees.
- Buck 65 & Sufjan Stevens - Blood Part II

Image by Amanda Marsalis

chill(y)

Burlington, Vermont
2010

love: animals

I'm completely in love with The Animal Print Shop by Sharon Montrose.  Her photography of animals is simple & clean which highlights their individual intricacies & beauty.  All of the animals she photographs are either rescued or owned by loving animal caretakers who ensure their well-being throughout the photography sessions.  Through her work, Montrose supports animal welfare programs such as animal rescue & wildlife education.  

Her prints are available in a variety of sizes so they range in price from the very the affordable to the more expensive.  Be sure to check her site out! Her animals are a sight to behold.

my father the painter

My dad has many random hobbies (such as White Gate Vineyards) & his latest undertaking is painting.  Above is a piece he made for me recently that I'm very proud to display.  Nautical art is one of my greatest loves so it's absolutely perfect.  Thanks dad.

& i'll ask for the sea

Afternoon of Tropical Storm Dan
Late Summer, 2009
Block Island

friday

Pigs are incredible.

(image via Cup of Jo)

Gisèle Freund

James Joyce in Paris in 1939

Virginia Woolf in London in 1939

Portraits by Gisèle Freund, a photographer who escaped Nazi Germany as a young woman.  I had never heard of her until the New York Times published this article--very interesting & surprising. 

tangled in heaps around you

image via M.H. Dunaway tumblr

Quincy

Meet Quincy, a 3-month-old kitten I am fostering.  He is a total lovebug, as most kittens are, so he's fabulous to have around my apartment. All love & energy :)

the heavy sleep of the perfectly loved

As far as the space between word and word, as the heavy sleep of the perfectly loved & the sirens of wars no one living can remember, as far as this room, where no words have been spoken, you are as far as invention, & I am as far as memory.
 - Susan Stewart 

(photo via la douleur exquise)

Atlas

via BiblioOdyssey

Williamsburg

 sunset over Manhattan on Saturday evening

friday

photo via Cup of Jo

look

images by 19-year-old photographer Stephen Beadles

via my modern met

andy

love him.

& kiss him back to strength, back to a boy

This is the first sonnet in Yusef Komunyakaa's amazing book of poems, WARHORSES, which changed my life in 2009.  He is truly one of the best.