"Superstition" live on Sesame Street

Lucille, Arrested Development

Obama Reads Where The Wild Things Are

Purely good, Karen O and the Kids

Where the Wild Things Are is among one of my favorite children books (along with Harold and the Purple Crayon, and some other gems). The soundtrack to the film is reeeally good. Everyone should run out and get it! (or download it, what have you, you shameless thieves)

From the mind of Karen (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), here's one of the tracks I really like to rock out to in the car. It just conveys so much of the honest emotion that children possess. Unapologetic. Entitled "Animal" -Karen O and the Kids



They wanted (O and Spike Jonze) to capture the innocence of children in the soundtrack. Here's a great behind the scenes of them composing.

Robert Flack’s “Gone Away” at Soul to Soul, Ghana.

Cyrano, Act III of Cyrano de Bergerac

Your name is like a golden bell
Hung in my heart; and when I think of you,
I tremble, and the bell swings and rings--
"Roxane!" . . .
"Roxane!" . . . along my veins, "Roxane!" . . .

"'I was also afraid of committing a mistake...'
I like the idea of a mistake being thought of as a crime."

-Ghandi quote, from Emma's blog

"History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes."

-Mark Twain

Monarch Butterflies

Just like birds, monarchs migrate south for the winter, traveling between 1,200 and 2,800 miles (at a rate of about 50 miles a day) to their wintering spot in central Mexico. It's thought that they use an internal sun compass to find the way.

The Amazing Lyre Bird

"The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer."

-Edward R. Murrow

Vernors is a flavored golden ginger ale aged for four years in oak barrels before bottling. It was the first U.S. soft drink, originating in 1866, although it was modelled on imported Irish ginger beers. In Detroit, Michigan, a drink made with vanilla ice cream and Vernors ginger ale is called a Boston cooler. The name is not taken from Boston, Massachusetts, where this combination is unknown, but from an establishment on Boston Boulevard in Detroit where it is said to have been invented.

a kiss on yellow wallpaper - ghada amer

e.e. cummings, Poem 92 (of 95)

i carry your heart with me ( i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
you go, my dear, and whatever is done
by only me, is your doing, my darling)

i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has meant
and whatever a son will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret, nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide),
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

"You do not come
On this moonless night.
I wake wanting you.
My breasts heave and blaze.
My heart burns up."

-Ono No Komachi

The Love Poems of Marichiko

The Love Poems of Marichiko were originally published as if they had been written by a young Japanese woman and Rexroth had merely translated them. In reality there was no such person as Marichiko — the poems were all written by Rexroth himself, projecting himself into a feminine persona, during the same period that he was translating several volumes of Chinese and Japanese women poets.

"Making love with you
Is like drinking sea water.
The more I drink
The thirstier I become,
Until nothing can slake my thirst
But to drink the entire sea. "

-Marichiko

Eating on the shore in Staten Island.

Peaches- farmers market in University Park.

View from Clare's roof-patio, Spanish Harlem, NYC.

"Summer" -Thomas Dewing, 1890

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world over, it became a butterfly."

-Anonymous

"I've been trying so hard to become an idea."

-Matthew Sadler, (Glen Arbor) Michigan poet

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