Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope
“Oh, she says, well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.
I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I’ll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don’t know. The moral of the story is – we’re here on Earth to fart around.
And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it’s like we’re not supposed to dance at all anymore.”
— from an interview by David Branachio
Rain
Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. Fought against it for a minute.
Then looked out the window at the rain. And gave over. Put myself entirely in the keep of this rainy morning.
Would I live my life over again? Make the same unforgivable mistakes? Yes, given half a chance. Yes.
— Raymond Carver
Wild flowers
Purple donkey orchid (diuris punctata)
Pelisser’s Toadflax (linaria pelisseriana)
Tiger Orchid (diuris sulphurea)
Billy Button (craspedia variabilis)
Milkmaids (burchardia umbellata)
Away
I pile books on the bed in your place, calculate
the weight of you, I crowd the pillows like
bodies, all night I’m wasteful with lamplight
— Thomas Dooley (2014)
Australian native lilies
Chocolate lily
Bulbine lily
“The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. This ‘outgrowing’, as I formerly called it, on further experience was seen to consist in a new level of consciousness. Some higher or wider interest arose on the person’s horizon, and through this widening of view, the insoluble problem lost its urgency. It was not solved logically in its own terms, but faded out when confronted with a new and stronger life-tendency.”
— Carl Jung
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
