I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun. 

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Time Wasting Experiment

Genius!

simple letterpress project, by Portland based artist Alyson Provax, titled Time Wasting Experiment.

There are many to relate to, I've just picked out a few.

Worrying is time wasting. I’m moving on, and getting my minutes back!

Time you enjoy wasting however is never wasted time....

Red

pins....
pinterest.com/iartrachel/red/

"Making things is so human that psychology and philosophy have gotten nowhere in trying to account for it."

Guy Davenport

Mad Love

Meghan Currie's Mad Love time lapse.

'Each time it must be new, fresh, take the body by surprise so the body grows and doesn't become dull with habit.'    

--Diane Long

(Found here)

Exercises in breathing

I.
knowing the rules is not enough. when it snows,
it doesn’t always mean it. when it snows, sometimes
it snows for the museums and sometimes it snows
for the papers and sometimes it snows for only
her majesty, the sea.

II.
following the rules is not enough. when he breathes—
remember this one please—when he breathes he breathes
for himself. when he breathes he doesn’t breathe for her or
for you or for his son or for his future sons, when he breathes,
he breathes for how it feels to be standing
in the public gardens knee-deep in snow, smoking
a cigarette and watching the statues still and cold
and unbreathing and having it mean something.

III.
breaking the rules is not enough. the sea is his mother.
the sea gives back in fish. the sea tells you: this
is what your voice sounds like. the sea reminds you to breathe.
the sea, the sea. she knows the rules are never enough.

-Kimberly Southwick

Six month long pinhole exposures

These are Six month long pinhole exposures aren't they beautiful?! 

I like the idea of slowing time down, things look very different when you do.

“It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.”

― George Harrison

(found here)

Sunday Tune

Sunday Tune

Saturday Poem

Friday!!

I love hula hooping, despite my utter lack of skill.
My mum can get a good run though!

Found at goldlionaz

six

"When Keira turned six last month, her aunty and uncle gave her a small disposable camera and a blank album, with a card suggesting she could document her life at six."

(From here)

Alessandro Piangiamore

Alessandro Piangiamore

“A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth.”

― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Erwin Wurm

Erwin Wurm's One Minute Sculptures make me think of mini rituals.

Norway

All images by me.

Hypnotic!

TRISHA BROWN // Newark from LGM Télévision on Vimeo.

“This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down. We all need such places of ritual safekeeping. And I do believe that if your culture or tradition doesn't have the specific ritual you are craving, then you are absolutely permitted to make up a ceremony of your own devising, fixing your own broken-down emotional systems with all the do-it-yourself resourcefulness of a generous plumber/poet.”

― Elizabeth Gilbert, 

Vogue, 1973

This tree keeps falling over. I prop it up,
it falls again. And the rain falls
day after day like a broken wet record.
Here are the birds—tiny, smaller

than birds. And like fresh butcher’s
paper, the light so bright it hurts.
So the birds are paper and so is the sky.
It will be easiest if I draw you a picture,

each of us a different shade of gray.
What goes right is an accident. It can’t
be blamed on us. What goes wrong

is almost impossible to see. How quickly
it disappears, like someone’s hand
into someone else’s pocket.

—Matthew Thorburn.

(Image by Geoff McFetridge.)

The Weight of Mountains

The Weight of Mountains from Studiocanoe on Vimeo.

This is fascinating!

Six month long pinhole exposures

“The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence.”

― Annette Simmons

(Found here)

Raindance

Beautiful song. 
It makes me smile and sing out loud and it reminds me of someone I miss and love very much.