June 2010
12 posts
“Gravity, to Copernicus, is the nostalgia of things to become spheres.”
– Arthur Koestler
Augenblick
Augenblick, meaning literally ‘In the blink of an eye’, describes a ‘decisive moment’ in time that is both fleeting yet momentously eventful, even epoch-makingly significant.
Chosen as Germany’s fourth most beautiful word
It was submitted by Swiss contestant Sabine Brenner. She chose the word because in a clever way “it is too long for what it means and...
St. Claude and Dumaine
We woke. Remember the light in that house, the dust. For months I had studied the way clouds over the sun at varying points in the day changed the light, darkened the walls from dusty yellow to a muddied darkness, ominous.
We lay on the floor. Too hot to sleep in the loft, June already. This was still a time that went by slowly, lazily, the coming months stretched wide, like a yawn. But this day...
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“Cyrus was deeply moved and spoke as he had never spoken before. ‘I...”
– John Steinbeck, from East of Eden
I have been feeling all kinds of lost and tiny and unsure and insignificant since returning from my road trip. I still don’t know how to articulate what happened, or what’s to come. All I know is that I rarely read my horoscope—not out of any sort of haughty disbelief, but because I am highly suggestible. But I read this in the coffee shop and sniffled a little, in the “I...
Sing Into My Mouth
I am home from 14 dusty days, days that took me from mountains that talked to me to train whistles in the night; from swimming in waterfalls to almost dying alongside the Rio Grande. Sleeping in yurts and sleeping in mid-nineteenth century creole cottages. I saw coyotes and rattlesnakes and Marfa Lights. I went home to New Orleans and felt its fingers slip through my skin. Four out of five people...
