Quote of the day

[Magical Realist]

"This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play."----Alan Watts

[Magical Realist]

“Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.”― Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

[Magical Realist]

"I detest jargon of every kind, and sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning.”― Jane Austen, Sense & Sensibility

[Magical Realist]

“The adults forgot to tell the kids there isn't much to do,
That all this free time is quite hard to get through.
You can read a nice novel and paint something new,
But those activities are actually pretty isolating too.
That's why we glance over at red lights, curious if others feel it too.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, Can I Tell You Something?

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[Magical Realist]

"In a world of images… nothing stands still or gets heavy—the world is leaping bursting dancing splattering shattering well-used and tireless."---Diane Arbus

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[Magical Realist]

“The culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.”—Junot Diaz

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[Magical Realist]

“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.”― Alain de Botton

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[Magical Realist]

"If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking."---Malcolm Gladwell

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[Syne]

"If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking."---Malcolm Gladwell

Cope.

If you don't opine on things you don't understand, you won't contradict yourself when you do understand them.

[Magical Realist]

The older we get, the more we are conscious of not being anymore, of all the things we once loved that are gone forever, and of the vast world of our past incrementally getting bigger day by day until one day it just swallows us up whole.