words that don't exist in the english dictionary...

- l’esprit d’escalier (French) The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said.

- forelsket (Norweigan) The euphoria you experience when you are first falling in love.

- saudade (Portuguese, Galician) The feeling one gets when realizing something one once had is lost and can never be had again.

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the falling of snow and lengthening of shadows...

this past weekend...

...while in Massachusetts

tougher than tough

double exposed

by Dan Mountford via

daydream

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."

~T.E. Lawrence

photos via ROYGBIV

thread makers

photos by Channi Anand

down the rabbit hole

this week marked the Chinese new year,  

happy year of the rabbit, may it take you on a journey like that of Alice!...

windows and reflections

photographs by Adrian Gaut

what we eat

mark bittman on what we eat via TED talks...

helplessness blues

Fleet Foxes' new album is out May 3rd and I'm excited...

our heart...

"Our heart endures between the hammers

as the tongue endures between the teeth

and in spite of everything continues to praise."

~excerpt from The Duino Elegies, by Rainer Maria Rilke

sādh

beautiful photographs of the Sadhus of India and Nepal now on view at the Rubin Museum...

Sadhu comes from the sanskrit word sādh which means "to reach ones goal", the goal for these Sadhus being to attain moksha (liberation) and renouncing the material world...they are mystics, yogis, and/or wondering monks....the painted markings on their face and body are called tilakas, each design and color having significance....

photographs by Thomas Kelly

love lost, lost love

Temper Trap, "Love Lost" (Dougal Wilson) from Rotten Rabbit on Vimeo.

twenty eight years so far....

"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want."

~Lao-Tzu

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with 28, thus begins the return of Saturn....

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weekend winter wonderland

in massachusetts...

(and some early birthday celebrating)

so weit wie noch nie...

'farther than ever before'...

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at times, when things make sense, the don't, when they don't, they do, when you try to make sense of them, they become more elusive, and when you don't try to make sense of them, they can wash over you like water....
~ccm

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Callie Curry aka Swoon

inspired...

swoon has always been my favorite "street" artist

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