Saturday Cartoon

The mini book of major events

The compressed history of Earth in pivitol moment mini book form by illustrator Evan Lorenzen .
You can see more of his miniature books over on his Tumblr. (via F*ck Yeah Book Arts)

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“But there is another kind of seeing that involves a letting go. When I see this way I sway transfixed and emptied. The difference between the two ways of seeing is the difference between walking with and without a camera. When I walk with a camera I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk without a camera, my own shutter opens, and the moment’s light prints on my own silver gut. When I see this second way I am above all an unscrupulous observer.” 

-- Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

One Moment Meditation

Undocumented Hours

"Much of my time is spent in isolation, in the beauty of the silent, intimately tracing the ridges and ravines of my character. My time is also spent in community, where I find sacrifice and compassion, moving and charting the courses of friendships. In work also, through the wringing and gripping toil of my hands, I find contentment and confidence. But I am an introvert without a camera. I am a friend without an audience. I am a baker without a blog. The cumulative collision of my life’s meaning, the arching composition and texture that keep this heart beating, exist without any traces of documentation.

I know full well that beauty and art dwell here in these unseen places. And often, as a writer, and in a sense an artist, I feel compelled to share it, to prove that I am living an artist’s life. Snap a photo, draw up a post, compose a quippy 140 characters—all to tangibly account for the many pinnacles of my productivity and accomplishment..."

 Head over to Kinfolk to read the rest of these Words on undocumented moments by Rebecca Parker Payne  
(Photograph by Nico Alary)

music to take a moment to

Dear world,
You’ve been a stressful lover of late. You’ve kept us up too late at night, you’ve caused strange pains and aches in our bones and fibers, and you’re only getting hotter. It’s time we all took a long, soothing moment. So log out, shut down, draw a bath, light some candles and hit play on some music to take a moment to.

“Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?”

-- Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

Still Moments

Images from Still Moments by Aleksandra Patova

Moments

“Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.
And be it gash or gold it will not come
Again in this identical disguise.”

― Gwendolyn Brooks,