the foghorn // warble
Procrastination is not a time management problem, it is an emotion, and I meant to write that last week. I mean to write a lot of things 'last week'.
Here's a few excerpts from Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts by J. Drew Lanham:
Considering Birds
A heron waits at the water's edge—wondering.
Wade or wait—fish or not?
No multitudes to satisfy—no flock to feed.
Just one lone long-legged-longing thing.
Choose wisely wader,
wish and want won't will the hunger away.Had I wings to fly how far would I wander? How high?
It is tasked to earthbound souls like mine to worry over flight—
or falling.
A sparrow sings the knowing
a feather's lift is faith enough.
Compassing
Limitless is a faraway place
way beyond the hogback ridge named possibilityit's over there through a tangle-thick forest the old ones call maybe
it is a fortnight's trudge through what could be
and at least as far as a strong man can chunk a stone
—straight as the crows flies
a hard tough row across the mind's breadth
a frog's hair from probable and head high from unreachable
you can't get there from here;
but you can get here from there
it's in the next hollerunfurl the map
aim the compass well
cause true north does lie
dead reckon instead on reality
find yourself there
in the works:
- myself, simply
- an Avishai Cohen Trio piece (the piano part, I'm not 3 people)
the links that people crave: (reading and otherwise)
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Flowers of Fire: Illustrations from Japanese Fireworks Catalogues (ca. 1880s) – The Public Domain Review
The illustrations from catalogues for Hirayama Fireworks and Yokoi Fireworks, published by C. T. Brock and Company, the oldest fireworks manufacturer in the United Kingdom.
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The Shopping Cure - by Anne Helen Petersen - Culture Study
This is the midweek edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen. Paid Subscribers: If you haven’t activated your invitation to Sidechannel, email me for a new one. New topics this week: #garden-outdoor-fixit and #kin-chosen-family-divorce-community. And, of course, Bennifer 2.0.
- https://fs.blog/2021/06/memory-palace/
- https://historyofyesterday.com/suppose-i-wanted-to-kill-a-lot-of-pilots-f126bbc756fa
- https://www.webindia123.com/dances/abhinaya/angika%20bhinaya/asamyukta.htm
on the wing