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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. I come to Hollins Pond not so much to learn how to live as, frankly, to forget about it. That is, I don’t think I can learn from a wild animal how to live in particular—shall I suck warm blood, hold my tail high, walk with my footprints precisely over the prints of my hands?—but I might learn somethi
... See moreAnnie Dillard • Teaching a Stone to Talk
“The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop “Leaving One” by Ralph Angel “A Cat in an Empty Apartment” by Wisława Szymborska “Apples” by Deborah Digges “Michiko Nogami (1946–1982)” by Jack Gilbert “Eating Alone” by Li-Young Lee “The Potter” by Peter Levitt “Black Dog, Red Dog” by Stephen Dobyns “The Word” by Mark Cox “Death” by Maurycy Szymel “This” by Czeslaw
... See moreTimothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
“he who has followed the path,
Shunryu Suzuki • Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
On life and death this old man walked.
Herman Melville • Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
What is a beating when the very head is loose on the shoulders?’
Rudyard Kipling • Kim (Illustrated edition)
They could not tell a thing from the way Papa was walking. It was that same dear little staccato walk, one shoulder down, then the other, then repeat, and repeat. They watched his progress. He passed the Kennedys’, he passed the vacant lot, he passed Mrs. Blakemore’s. They wanted to hurl themselves over the fence, into the street, and shake the tru
... See moreMargo Jefferson • Maud Martha
his life, he has been homesick.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Across the road from where she’s parked, aspens tumble down the basin toward Fish Lake, where five years earlier a Chinese refugee engineer took his three daughters camping on the way to visiting Yellowstone.