As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000)

untitled photos/edits by @nightcorp, published 14 July 2019

Entering the Kingdom by Mary Oliver

— Mary Oliver, from Sleeping In The Forest

— Rainer Maria Rilke

missing you

Softest of mornings, hello. And what will you do today, I wonder, to my heart? And how much honey can the heart stand, I wonder, before it must break? This is trivial, or nothing: a snail climbing a trellis of leaves and the blue trumpets of flowers. No doubt clocks are ticking loudly all over the world. I don’t hear them. The snail’s pale horns extend and wave this way and that as her fingers-body shuffles forward, leaving behind the silvery path of her slime. Oh, softest of mornings, how shall I break this? How shall I move away from the snail, and the flowers? How shall I go on, with my introspective and ambitious life?

— Anthony de Mello, Sadhana, a Way to God

José Rizal (1998)  dir. Marilou Diaz-Abaya

— Margaret Atwood, from “The Year of the Flood,” published c. 2009

— Waiting, Marya Hornbacher (via salemwitchtrials)

— Maurice Hewlett, from Helen Redeemed & Other Poems; “Daughter of Earth,”

— Arthur Rimbaud, from Selected Poems & Prose; “The Alchemy Of Words,”

— Odilon Redon, tr. by John Ashbery, from Selected Translations; “To Oneself,”