May 2009
Uncle Tyler.
I Love, Love, Love, Being an Uncle.
“It is our earth, not yours or mine or his. We are meant to live on it, helping...”
– J. Krishnamurti
“To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.”
– Bernadette Devlin
“…my head is filled with questions and I can assure you no answer to any...”
– Arthur Dent on Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
“There’s a time when a man needs to fight and a time when he needs to...”
– Edward Bloom on Big Fish
WatchCalvin & Hobbes Tug-of-War on Tyler Knott Vimeo (via Tyler Knott Vimeo)
“We see men haying far in the meadow, their heads waving like the grass they cut....”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Think enough and you won’t know anything.”
– Kenneth Patchen
“This is the way of peace: “Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth,...”
– Peace Pilgrim
“Resting lazily in the grass, our fingers touched for the first time.”
– “Eric” on OneSentence.org
“There is a hurricane
between our bodies
and you’re the only umbrella
I...”
– from “Hurricane” by Tyler Knott Gregson
“To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music,...”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Ice Cream Truck Ringtone I just made. If you want...
“We accept the graceful falling
Of mountain cherry blossoms,
But it is much...”
– Rengetsu
“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a...”
– Bruce Lee
“Why praise only stars
when the black they sleep upon
allows them to shine?”
– A Stars Haiku I dreamed last night. Woke up and wrote it.
“Come With Me” by Maia Hirasawa (duet...
“The mountains are huge, towering jaggedly into the fiercely blue sky, painted...”
– Te Anau - Excerpt from my New Zealand Journal
The Ghost You Require
The silence you need and me with a mouth, a mouth full of words. The absence the stunning absence you wrap yourself in steals the shadow that follows me. I can not be for you, the ghost you require. I can not swallow the words filling my mouth I can not fade into the silence of absence. You need a ghost I can not become. The ghost you require and the quiet inside. The words never spoken and the...
“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the...”
– Calvin & Hobbes
“The most palpable description of bread is that of hunger.”
– Tadeusz Rozewicz
WatchAll sorts of perfect.
The Tallest Man On Earth: Stepstone (Traditional) on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
The Yankees Want to Ruin Baseball
Check out this sad little fact, via Kottke:
Ticket prices at the new Yankee Stadium are so high that if a New Yorker wants to watch a Mariners/Yankees game from the best seats, it would be a lot cheaper to fly to Seattle, stay in a nice hotel, eat fancy dinners, and see two games. Option 1: Two tickets to Tuesday night, June 30, Mariners at Yanks, cost for just the tickets, $5,000. Option 2:...
“The Morning Linda Dies” by Paleo
“He who finds a thought that enables him to obtain a slightly deeper glimpse into...”
– Albert Einstein