INTERVENTION SOUGHT
This is Amazon cum Sotheby's catalog for someone of my current means, but heavens I want Thames & Hudson's astounding six-volume set of van Gogh's letters.
Where is Lady Equity? My days are suffused with the painful realization that I'll never live with the faceless sower (Sower 1888). I will never sit for an hour as the olive tree refugees drag their bundled roots across a merciless landscape. I cannot ditch my neurasthenic jade plant, in lieu of seething cypresses or a medusa-haired mulberry tree or lilac.
Amelioration of pain surely is a human right. I would promise to never again request even an aspirin, or socialized medicine.
HERR KEPLER'S NOTEBOOK
Time is the bully anchor of the opposing tug-rope team.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
Oh. Covet-worthy, definitely!
ReplyDeleteYou don't always get what you want, but hope you have a wonderful holiday anyway!
ReplyDeleteYou as well, Lucy! Rolling Stone lyrics are such a useful antidote to cravings, particularly when paired with a dying washing machine.
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