23-29 June quotes of the week
Image description: an abandoned bus shelter on grass by the side of the road. Orange and black construction pylons; grey tarmac path; road with cars; telephone polls with wires; blue sky and puffy white clouds.
As we go into a long weekend here in Canada and the weather is mild but not too hot, I am still quite busy, but can’t resist long wanders, collecting clouds on my Android for later contemplation. I hope you have had a good week and if you have Monday off, that you spend in it in ways you enjoy. Thanks to all who contributed quotes this week!
Sunday
How often do we allow ourselves to be beautiful messes? How often do we remember that both mess and order, luminosity and darkness all make up life itself? And for those of us who create or build—whether that is books, furniture, gardens, families, or communities—that reminder is all the more necessary.
T. Thorn Coyle, The world is a beautiful mess, June 15, 2024
Monday
Would you describe yourself as a former Bohemian love child hippie avant-garde conceptual artist?
André Leon Talley, interviewing Rick Owens as quoted by Lisa Robertson on Instagram
Tuesday
As the ER nurse wisely told me, when I was 25 years old, "No one is going to write, 'world's best employee' on your tombstone" . . . Michelle Adele, a reader in response to my posts about feeling overwhelmed and resigning from a contract.
Wednesday
Image description: TEXT: Keep calm it’s just ethical non-monogamy blue text on black background.
Thursday
“The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you don’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who falls in love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again. This is their mystery and magic.” Arundhati Roy, the God of Small Things, p. 218
Friday
Only now do I realize that I have always been enough. Even when I thought I wasn’t. Irini Zoica
Saturday
In your attempts to get more, you're losing more every time.
Charles at the Wisetown Cafe as I fork the last bits of warm brownie and whipped cream into my mouth.
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