April 2009
March 2009
Who are you who live in all these many forms? You’re death that captures...
– Private Train on “The Thin Red Line”
I decided to try to quickly transpose “First Day of My Life” by Bright Eyes onto my cheap, old, and slightly-impossible-to-keep-in-tune ukulele, here were the results. It’s a lot wrong, I’m sure, but hey, what can you do?
First Day Of My Life on Uke on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Why should I be afraid to die? I belong to you. If I go first, I’ll wait...
– Private Jack Bell from “The Thin Red Line”
We see nothing, except what is so unimportant to see. Nothing, and yet we...
– Henri Michaux
One man looks at a dying bird and thinks there’s nothing but unanswered...
– Witt from “The Thin Red Line”
Keep it simple; as simple as possible, but no simpler.
– Albert Einstein
How simple it is
to forget the sound of birds
come back to me now.
– A Spring Haiku, by Tyler Knott Gregson
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be...
– George Santayana
Tiny I
who are you that used to be I? the bright eyes staring in wonder. where did you wander to you who shared this soul, you who know the secrets I haven’t even dreamed. do you feel me when i wonder will you whisper and keep my eyes bright you who was me tiny me staring with wonder at all things bright and glowing -tkg-
The Day We're Ankle Deep
every morning when i wake up for a brief brief moment i think that i could not love you anymore than i do, that my heart is at capacity for you, that it is spilling over and staining my life red with love for every single whisper of you. then i get out of bed, i put on my clothes, i look in the mirror at a person that has been lonely and alone for so long, and then i talk to you and then it...
The Time Will Come, When It Is Time To Go
The time will come, when it is time...
– “The Time Will Come, When It Is Time To Go” by Tyler Knott Gregson (me).
My girlfriend, Sarah, had a school project a few years ago to re-write or re-imagine a famous poem, keeping it in the exact same rhyme scheme, architecture, and tone. I helped her and chose to re-write “Do...
I’m erecting a barrier of simplicity between myself and the world.
– André Gide
Survival it is called. Often it is accidental, sometimes it is engineered by...
– Wallace Stegner
“Hairshirt” covered by Glen Hansard on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
This brought me to tears last night. I don’t know why.
In rain during a dark night,
enter that darkness.
– Shiva