The National, Slow Show

Mars Crossing

   Below, an insignificant figure sat on a small ridge of ice. She continued to stare into the sky for a long time after the tiny speck of light had vanished.
   And then she turned back to return to the habitat. There was no use continuing to watch; it would be nine months before their journey would finish. There was a lot for her to do before then.
   Estrela Carolina Conselheiro was, at last, home.

Geoffrey A. Landis

Wind is like light ...

... you can't see the wind directly ... just the effect it has on things in its path.

Each Smile

Each smile … each kind word … each helping hand … each selfless act … though small in itself, over the years, accumulates to become the total effect of your life on the world. That effect can move mountains, and will echo into the future long after you are gone.

Dear Atlanta

Gehenna calls to me still ...

... every now and then, across the vastness of space. She calls to me, but I do not listen. I do not think of the whiteness. I do not think of it at all. Or at least, only from time to time.

Andrew Weiner

Pupils

Pupils are like black holes ...
light goes in but it doesn't come out.

Long Time Ago ~ Julian Taylor

Don't worry ...

... everyone else is struggling hard to appear normal too.

Signature

Hope is your survival
A captive path I lead.
No matter where you go, I will find you
In a place with no frontiers;
No matter where you go, I will find you
If it takes a thousand years.

Moya Brennan

The Weary Kind

This ain't no place for the weary kind,
This ain't no place to lose your mind,
This ain't no place to fall behind,
Pick up your crazy heart and give it one more try.

Ryan Bingham

To the loneliest one

There is in certain living souls
A quality of loneliness unspeakable,
So great it must be shared
As company is shared by lesser beings.
Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this
That in immensity
There is one lonelier than you.

— Theodore Sturgeon

My dear friend, the next time we meet ...

... we will be complete strangers.

I will not remember anything at all about you.
You will not remember anything at all about me.
And neither of us will remember the times we shared,
the places we went, the things we did.

But that's okay.
Because we'll get to become dear friends all over again.

Sigur Rós - Hoppípolla

You found me.

All of the sounds in this world ...

... from beautiful music,
to children laughing,
to wind through trees,
to wolves howling ...
are rendered by the eardrum ...
which can do nothing more than
move back and forth.

Lilium

The Old Ways

Somehow I knew, that you'd have to go
Your world was not mine, your eyes told me so
Yet it was there I felt the crossroads of time
And I wondered why.

Loreena McKennitt

Before I forget ...

Salish
Sasamat
Huckleberry
Hemlock
Deer Fern
Nature
Council
Imperial
Powerline
Long
Sword Fern
Clinton
St. Georges
Iron Knee
Admiralty
East Canyon
West Canyon
Spanish
Pioneer
Aims
Douglas Fir

But of all of these, Sword Fern is my favourite.

If I had known how difficult it would be ...

... I would never have started down this path.
And that would have been a big mistake.