Emily Wurm
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Emily Wurm
just the habitual corners, the underachieving alley that always smells faintly of fish, the bridge whose concrete belly I touch at dawn like an old relic. A city is not something you “use.” You marry it and then learn its pet names: the lamppost that supported you when drunk, the storm drain that kept your secret
An Existential Guide to: Living the Beautiful Life
Some of our most wonderful memories are of beautiful places where we felt immediately at home. We feel most alive in the presence of the Beautiful for it meets the needs of our soul.
John O'Donohue • Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I
... See moreHenry David Thoreau • Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau
Fernweh is a longing to be away from home, a desire to be in faraway places. Fernweh is similar to wanderlust but, like heimweh, has a sickish, melancholy tinge.
Teju Cole • Known and Strange Things
I can’t continue doing a bunch of speedy things but just go a little more slowly. Speed is a pathogen. Live in a speed-laced environment long enough, and before I know it I’m tripping over my own feet and debating a cocaine habit.
Slowness is a result of curating an environment that cultivates slack instead of speed, perpetuates ease instead of... See more
Slowness is a result of curating an environment that cultivates slack instead of speed, perpetuates ease instead of... See more
“For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.” —Luke 8:17 niv
Angelo Dilullo • Awake: It's Your Turn
Artefacts – whether early coins featuring the image of Muhammad or golden and gemstone-encrusted statues of the Buddha – were inherently flawed for, as theologian John Calvin declared, “the finite cannot contain the infinite”.