February 2012
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Gregory Alan Isakov reads Loren Eiseley
“The Judgement of the Birds.
It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and live for a time in the wilderness. If he is of the proper sort, he will return with a message. It may not be a message from the god he set out to seek, but even if he has...
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These apples have hung in the wind and frost and rain till they have absorbed...
– Henry David Thoreau | Wild Apples
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January 2012
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Bryan John Appleby | The Silent Shepherd
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The grand design was movement and the opposition of time, not drinking, hiding,...
– Dave Eggers | You Shall Know Our Velocity!
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December 2011
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November 2011
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A Film About A Fort
Dear Friend,
I deeply thank you for our conversation last Thursday. I have been thinking thoroughly about the concept that we live and breathe in abandoned homes and living metaphors. Collections of insects and objects soaked in the stories of other people: inner architecture. You may say it’s fiction, but I choose to believe. In the forest this morning I dealt with the...
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All these years I've been upset, I've slowly...
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October 2011
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She wished him steaming trains that left from winter stations.
– Robert James Waller | The Bridges of Madison County
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10 Reasons to go slow when you travel
1. Footprints, those dirty little carbon ones 2. It’s cheaper 3. To challenge yourself 4. Because the other people tell you that you can’t 5. Because you realise you can 6. To go somewhere new 7. To learn how to pack light 8. To realise that the journey is important 9. It’s something to talk about over a wine fuelled dinner 10. To travel.
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Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the...
– David Mitchell | Cloud Atlas
September 2011
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We had a refrigerator full of film. We’d skate ramps. We’d build rails. We had...
– Spike Jonze (on his early job as a writer/photographer for Freestylin’ Magazine)