they were all sand slipping thru my fingers slinking shards of sea glass broken shells common quartz burning my soles stuck on my tongue in grainy clumps sometimes I'd sink into their shallows and think this must be it, then filling my…
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
– Franz Kafka
Sep23
and if you have ever been abandoned. be a constant. if you have ever been wrapped up in nights so dark, you could not find your way back home. be light. if you have ever fallen apart into a thousand fractured pieces and wondered where on earth everyone has gone. be present. if you have ever felt unworthy. unbeautiful. unseen. unknown. unheard. be love. i tell you the truth. some of the most precious things we learn, are from the fires we've endured.
– Ullie Kaye
Mar19
I understand now that I'm not a mess but a deeply feeling person in a messy world. I explain that now, when someone asks me why I cry so often, I say, "For the same reason I laugh so often - because I'm paying attention.
Your face is the northern shoreline with the ocean in your eyes, a gentle unstoppable rise. I rest my head upon your chest, feel the ebb and swell of your breath, run my hand through sandy stubble along your chin that scrapes…
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
– Salvador Dalí
Mar06
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
– Jack Kerouac
Jul14
SeekIng uncoMPLication by any means necEssary
SIMPLE
May09
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Handmade paper cover, handwritten type, handpainted backgrounds, handstitched binding. All imagery in the book was created on watercolor paper using Sumi ink & water (grayscale). I cropped the images sensitive to how the text would look over it. The text was written using…