Open Culture is a great website for finding all sorts of interesting media. Today, there was a post on their Facebook page about a couple of videos of Leonard Cohen’s poems.
His poetry doesn’t always touch me. This one did.
when you meet the Buddha on the path…flop next to him and nap…
In a post on Tumblr, Jennifer Palmer wrote:
“You’re trying so hard to understand 9-11 that you’re missing the whole point: 9-11 is about not understanding. It’s about how real change has very little to do with so-called progress.”
“But what if there’s a way to stop the next one?” I said, “What if we’re being given clues that will give us more time so that we could go to the media and hit the internets and let everybody know? Don’t we have an obligation to find out as much as we can?”
“The only obligation we have in this life is to die.”
Say not in grief that she is no more
but say in thankfulness that she was
A death is not the extinguishing of a light,
but the putting out of the lamp
because the dawn has come.
it is perfect.
There’s this place in the back of my head where the empty space is. There’s a kind of awareness around that space that every thing is belief. Who believes? What believes? I don’t care. It’s just my belief and it doesn’t matter.
My husband posted a link to this on his Tumblr: http://www.rebellesociety.com/2012/10/22/writing-lab-advice-from-charles-bukowski/. I believe it applies to life as well as writing.
I am the Audience 