a better camera won’t do a thing for you if you don’t have anything in your head or in your heart

    I'm back. The weekend was long, and also inordinately short. It was sad, and also incredibly sweet. It was restful, and also bone-deep exhausting. Perhaps most importantly, I spent almost nothing on the events themselves, but am still (inwardly) freaking about money.

Day 12: "Lunch"  The best part, anyway!

 

    I took The American Shakespeare Company's "What Shakespeare Character Are You?" quiz, and came up with the most amazing result...

My college mentor used to call me Ophelia...

 

The pattern of the air around that leaf

is like someone tracing my ribcage

with his index finger

and then walking away.

Who can blame us for wanting other worlds,

but shall we take them,

or let them come to us? Is the spirit just an ear

more like a mouth

that bites the air and turns it into blood?

[Katie Peterson, from 'Meditation Denying Everything' in Permission]

Day 13: "Letters"  Sometimes it's what they say, and sometimes it's what they really mean.

    Only one day left til the weekend! What a relief.

[the title quotation is by Arnold Newman, and reads in its entirety: “A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they’ll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won’t do a thing for you if you don’t have anything in your head or in your heart.”]