"shaggy bliss"

"peonies"

. . . 

"Do you also hurry, half-dressed and barefoot, into the garden, 

and softly, 

and exclaiming of their dearness, 

fill your arms with the white and pink flowers,

with their honeyed heaviness, their lush trembling, 

their eagerness

to be wild and perfect for a moment, before they are

nothing, forever?"

― Mary Oliver, from "Peonies"

iris .1

Iris ― goddess of the rainbow, who acted as a messenger of the gods

iris .2

"autumn in the window"

"lily in the rain"

"tender in the garden of tears"

"the myth"

"Everybody acts out a myth, but very few know what their myth is."

"More it's like there is a story, that you should be acting out, that works across games, 
and you have an incline of it, you have a notion of it, you have a vague apprehension of it, 
it is sort of built into you - that's archetype, that's an archetype." 

"duality"

"There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth 
is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true."

— Niels Bohr

"dictum"

"The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life 

because that is the only reality; all else being the play of thought. But it might as well be 

our greatest folly because that which exists only a moment and vanishes as a dream 

can never be worth a serious effort."

― Irvin D. Yalom

"frosty fables"

_ _ _

december

yarrow stalks —

donning dainty snow hats

"same different blue"

"different, like you."

.

"soon or later, different scares people."

the walks of May

divergent diversion

"The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways.

The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion."

― Malcolm de Chazal

traffic

"To have an inner life, to think, to juggle and leap, to become a tightrope walker
in the world of ideas. To attack, to riposte, to refute, what a contest, what acclaim.
To understand. The most generous word of all. Memory. To retain, a geyser of felicity.
Intelligence. The agonizing poverty of my mind. Words and ideas flitting in and out 
like butterflies. My brain a dandelion seed blown in the wind."

― Violette Leduc

"fall to pieces"

"All means are impediment. Only where all means fall to pieces, encounter happens."

― Martin Buber, I and Thou

on a sunny winter day, in march

"the encounter"

upside-down s/tree/t