I Aear cân ven na mar.

Cameron Awkward-Rich, from “An Optimism”

In the Mood for Love (2000)

“It was an act of self-preservation — however misguided it was”.

"One of the sentences I'm most haunted by is spoken by the little girl Alice in Wonderland: "I only came to see the garden". For Alice, and for myself, the garden is the space of encounter, or as Mircea Eliade put it, "the center of the world". The garden is green in the brain. A sentence of my own, which brings me to another one by Gaston Bachelard, which I hope I remember correctly: "The garden of dream-memory, lost in an after-life of the true past". [...] Proust analyzing desire, says that desire doesn't want to be analyzed but satisfied. In other words, I don't want to talk about the garden, I want to see it. Of course, what I'm saying is still puerile since, in this life, we never do what we want to. Which is another reason to want to see the garden, even if it is impossible, especially if it is impossible." 

Salma Deera, "Salt"

In honor of National Forget-Me-Not Day (November 10th), we offer this lovely  hand-colored lithograph of water mouse ear, Myosotis palustris, now known as the water forget-me-not, from Conversations on Botany (1817).  

-Margaret Atwood, Selected Poems 1: 1965-1975

Ada Limón, “To Be Made Whole”, On Being with Krista Tippett

Rebecca Solnit, Hope In The Dark

Eggs of a moth on an apple tree.

joan armatrading performing in chicago, july 1979 [ph: paul natkin]

Mary Oliver, from “Hum Hum”, A Thousand Mornings

May Sarton, from Journal of a Solitude [ID in alt text]

Yusaku Munakata — What a Heart (acrylic on canvas, 2007)

Astronomer Jan Koet captured this video in 2007 of Saturn appearing behind the Moon.

"Gardening with the Son I Will Never Have", Ocean Vuong, Burnings