WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM: January 2011

The 1931-1932 Diary of Anais Nin

“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book(Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you take a trip, or you talk with Richard, and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom(when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this(or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death.”

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

THE WANDERING POET

NANAO SAKAKI

Photo by John Suiter

If you have time to chatter
Read books

If you have time to read
Walk into mountain, desert and ocean

If you have time to walk
Sing songs and dance

If you have time to dance
Sit quietly, you Happy Lucky Idiot

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Wednesday, January 5, 2011