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“I awoke and it was still dark. I lay there for a time reliving the dream, feeling other dreams stacked behind it.” Excerpt from M Train by Patti Smith, 2015
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“Inspiration is the unforeseen quantity, the muse that assails at the hidden hour.” Excerpt from Devotion by Patti Smith, 2017
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tea with friends thoughts of miro sunny afternoons colored pencils tied with twine book sale at the library shards of distant memories kisses from the pup this book: The Alienist by Caleb Carr and this...
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On days like this, the clouds probably absorbed the sounds from the surface of the earth. And not just sounds. All kinds of things. Perceptions, for example. From, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki...
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She was like a woman of Leonardo da Vinci’s, whom we love not so much for herself as for the things that she will not tell us. from A Room with a View by E.M. Forster, 1908
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The more thrilling, wonderful, divine objects I behold in a day, the more expanded and immortal I become. from The Journal 1837–1861 by Henry David Thoreau
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Amo, amas, amat, she thought. Amamus, amatis, amant. Their Latin teacher had made them march through the halls chanting conjugations. I love, you love, he, she, or it loves. It loves? That made no...
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the sun kissing the edges of leaves walks along the river this book, Hold Still by Sally Mann the smell of peony and rose Johnny Cash singing, Daddy Sang Bass the Laurel Highlands on a cool, fall morning
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And I thought, as he reached down to brush the hair from my eyes, the trouble with dreaming is that we eventually wake up. from The Year of the Monkey, by Patti Smith, 2019
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photo by Sylvia kicking leaves on walks berry pies Gene Autry this book: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty young bucks eating pumpkins gathering greens from the fields a healing pup balsam...
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photo by Sylvia When I come across a long lost book, for example I flip to random pages and see if they have anything to tell me. from Keep Going by Austin Kleon, 2019 photo by Sylvia
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photo by Sylvia Once she’s locked the attic door behind her she feels a sense of release, a crack of light in the darkness. What is the name for what she’s feeling? She wishes it were liberation. from...
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photo by Sylvia songs from this album: Madman Across the Water by Elton John, 1971 these books: Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler, 2001 and Death in Kashmir by M. M. Kaye, 1984 home made...
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At Home
photo by Sylvia vases with faces and pine cones for hats books strewn here and there about painted houses and childhood ramblings and motorcycle journeys in the sun coffee brewing and candles burning...
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Her Thoughts
photo by Sylvia stackedand waitingin a mental cue—one, melting into another,morphing,molting—parchment paperscraps of memories
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Excerpt: Woodswoman
photo by Sylvia “Life seems to have no beginning and no ending. Only the steady expansion of trunk and root, the slow pileup of duff and debris, the lap of water before it becomes ice, the patter of...
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Excerpt from: Damage
photo by Sylvia “Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.” from Damage by Josephine Hart, 1991
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