sarahneff

“I work in the morning at a manual typewriter. I do about four hours and then go running. This helps me shake off one world and enter another. Trees, birds, drizzle—it’s a nice kind of interlude. Then I work again, later afternoon, for two or three hours. Back into book time, which is transparent—you don’t know it’s passing. No snack food or coffee. No cigarettes—I stopped smoking a long time ago. The space is clear, the house is quiet. A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it. Looking out the window, reading random entries in the dictionary.” Don Delillo

“It is possible to pursue innocence as hounds pursue hares: single-mindedly, driven by a kind of love, crashing over creeks, keening and lost in fields and forests, circling, vaulting over hedges and hills wide-eyed, giving loud tongue all unawares to the deepest, most incomprehensible longing, a root flame in the heart, and that warbling chorus resounding back from the mountains, hurling itself from ridge to ridge over the valley, now faint, now clear, ringing the air through which the hounds tear, open-mouthed, the echoes of their own wails dimly knocking in their lungs. What I call innocence is the spirit’s unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration”

Annie Dillard

wheatonimprov:

This Friday at 7:30 in Chatlos! In conjunction with Student Health Services. Smiling is good for your health and face and teeth.

obligatory reblog.

Bon Iver’s “Come Talk To Me”

For today.

“The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”

Wendell Berry, as quoted in Nachmanovitch’s Free Play

This just emailed

My college celebrates Hobbit Day:

” If you desire to join in the Hobbit Day festivities, meet at Anderson Commons for dinner anytime between 5:15 and 6:30. We should be pretty easy to find. We will be celebrating with a hearty meal together, during which time there may be speeches, songs or poems (bring one to share if you like). Around 6:45, we will continue the festivities with a photo scavenger hunt. Hobbit attire is recommended but not required.

“Hobbit Day is celebrated on September 22 each year and was started by the American Tolkien Society. The week containing Hobbit Day is known as “Tolkien Week” to celebrate all the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. For more information: http://www.americantolkiensociety.org/hobbit_day_and_tolkien_week.htm

Daniel Flavin

Wheaton College Tolkien Society

President”

Validation by Kurt Kuenne. Also, the sequel Rent-a-Person.

szymon:

plastic straws sculptures by Annie Boyden Varnot

rchlwtrs:

aubsome:

pitchfork:

Bon Iver: ”Holocene” [Director: Nabil Elderkin]

Justin, I am running out of money. Please stop releasing things that I love more than food or shelter or etsy or whatever it is I’m supposed to be spending my income on. All my love, Aubry.

So good.

Favorite.

(Source: 12thoctave)