Matt
@mattj
Matt
mostly made this post to show off photos of the old food court, since they seem to be hard to find... i remember climbing all over the rocks as a kid while my parents enjoyed coffee. and the zoo rides!! unfortunately all the whimsy is gone now, and it's been bleached white like most other simon malls 🫠
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hanayanaareddit.comFrom r/deadmalls: The Old Mills at Jersey Gardens (2000s-ish)
Smeagol, philologist – The Homebound Symphony
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In the garden, appearances are lush. Everything seems as if it is freely given, originating from some hidden, mysterious source. That is why in literature, they are often sites of epiphanies – spiritual or erotic or otherwise – gateways to other worlds or orders of being.
Robert Pogue Harrison • Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition
Taste seems to possess two main functions. (1) It invites us, by arousing our pleasure, to repair the constant losses which we suffer through our physical existence. (2) It helps us to choose from the variety of substances which Nature presents to us those which are best adapted to nourish us.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin • The Physiology of Taste
DEAD MALL SERIES : FOREST FAIR VILLAGE MALL Ft. Music by Dan Mason ダン·メイソン
youtube.com- Walking , Henry David Thoreau
- Reveries of the Solitary Walker , Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Ki (Trees), Kōda Aya
- Méditations poétiques , Alphonse de Lamartine
- A Field Guide to Getting Lost , Oristelle Bonis et Rebecca Solnit
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek , Annie Dillard
- The Gardener and His Master , Jean de La Fontaine
- A Philosophy of Walking ,
Henry David Thoreau • Rêveries d'un Promeneur Averti
LOVE AFTER LOVE
by Derek Walcott
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your... See more
by Derek Walcott
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your... See more
But active, concerned people don’t have time to spend leisurely, walking along paths of green grass and sitting beneath trees. One must prepare projects, consult with the neighbors, try to resolve a million difficulties; there is hard work to do. One must deal with every kind of hardship, every moment keeping one’s attention focused on the work,
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