June 2011
17 posts
“I like things that are handmade & I like to see people’s hand in the world, anywhere in the world; it doesn’t matter to me where it is. In my own work, I do everything by hand. I don’t project or use anything mechanical, because even though I do spend a lot of time trying to perfect my line work & my hand, my hand will always be imperfect because it’s human. I think it’s the part that’s off that’s interesting, that even if I’m doing really big letters & I spend a lot of time going over the line and over the line & trying to make it straight, I’ll never be able to make it straight. From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. & I think that’s where the beauty is.”
—margaret kilgallen
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“Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good. If it doesn’t, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere, but one has a heart & the other doesn’t. One makes for a joyful journey & the other will make you curse your life. Anything is one of a million paths. A path is only a path. If you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any conditions. To have such clarity, you must lead a disciplined life free of fear or ambition. Only then will you know that any path is only a path & there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you to do.”
—carlos castaneda
“If one morning in the Spring, a stranger came and said to me, your mother, father, brother, sister, uncle, lover, friend is dead from a B-52, napalm bombing, search and destroy misson, air attack, Tet offensive, My Lai massacre, failed escape, I would not scream but make of my body a net, a tarp, stretched taut across the sky, the sea, over every village and hamlet, prepared to catch everything from the sky, shade everything on the ground, rain water and receive you, war, with arms outstretched.”
—lê thi diem thúy
