What In The World

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known..."

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:15:06 -0400

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”

- EKR

"Don’t hang out with people who don’t love you. Don’t try to impress people who aren’t worth it...."

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 03:38:21 -0500

“Don’t hang out with people who don’t love you. Don’t try to impress people who aren’t worth it. Don’t try to win people over who aren’t worth it. Focus on yourself, and focus on the people who are really awesome and who love you. Don’t hang out with people who make you feel like shit. Don’t spend your energy on them.”

- Beth Ditto

India

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:24:00 -0500

I am going to India from December 31st, 2012 to January 27th, 2013.

I will be counting down into the New Year on a plane that will be taking me to a 14-hour layover in London.

Then: Delhi, Rishikesh, Jaipur, Agra, Varanasi.

Overwhelming sights, scents and sounds from temples, trash and trains.

From bustling city, to enlightening mountains, to a spiritual river rafting excursion, to ancient desert cities, to the most holy water in the world.

Am I ready for it?

Not even close.

But I’ve been preparing my entire life for this moment.

The start of a worldwide search,

of who I am, who I will be, who I’ll end up being.

But, I will always be in the same skin, with all its blood and guts and atoms and molecules.

Always the same.

But ever so changing.

I’ll find you, Elle. I promise.

I’ll find you and love you forever, no matter what you do.

You’re free to roam, to wander, to lust.

Wanderlust.

-l.e.

West St. NYC -l.e.

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:22:04 -0400

West St. NYC

-l.e.

Escaping Flowers -l.e.

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:16:10 -0400

Escaping Flowers

-l.e.

"When you plant seeds in the garden, you don’t dig them up every day to see if they have sprouted..."

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:21:25 -0400

“When you plant seeds in the garden, you don’t dig them up every day to see if they have sprouted yet. You simply water them and clear away the weeds; you know that the seeds will grow in time. Similarly, just do your daily practice and cultivate a kind heart. Abandon impatience and instead be content creating the causes for goodness; the results will come when they’re ready.”

- Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron

thedownlowe: 6.59am. This is beautifully witty.

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:25:27 -0400

thedownlowe:

6.59am.

This is beautifully witty.

Fictitious.

Wed, 30 May 2012 12:11:04 -0400

Burning embers of a city,

town,

streets.

Only to be viewed

from an airplane,

or some high above place

in the universe.

Some may light

to a full fledged fire,

Using oxygen as it’s major source.

Growing larger, taller.

Skyscrapers.

Some go out

The very last house loses flame.

The region is dark.

Funny how light signifies life,

Existence.

But without existence,

this false “light” wouldn’t even exist.

This fictitious light

has a hold on us.

Control.

Without it,

We’d be just another dark, cold planet.

Lights Flickering | Storms Producing Prose

Wed, 30 May 2012 11:50:54 -0400

Is he really the Tallest Man on Earth?

I like to listen to songs of love

with the rain & thunder

in the background.

Almost as a test on their ability

to be heard through

the music of Mother Nature.

She sings,

like an opera,

the anticipation built up

by flashes of light.

She laughs at us,

shaking the ground.

No music, no sound

can exceed her limits.

…But it does add a nice touch,

doesn’t it?

Almost mockingly so…

"We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is..."

Tue, 29 May 2012 12:54:37 -0400

“We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.”

- Dr. Seuss

Ceiling in the Sky @ Christian Science Plaza l.e.

Fri, 18 May 2012 01:09:52 -0400

Ceiling in the Sky
@ Christian Science Plaza

l.e.

bookmania: Brattle Book Shop at 9 West Street in Boston,...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:04:52 -0500

Brattle Book Shop

Brattle Book Shop's Mural

bookmania:

Brattle Book Shop at 9 West Street in Boston, Massachusetts. One of America’s oldest and largest used book shops, the Brattle features an outside sale lot, two floors of general used books, and a third floor of rare & antiquarian books. Housed in a three-story building in the heart of Downtown Boston, The Brattle Book Shop carries an impressive stock of over 250,000 books, maps, prints, postcards and ephemeral items in all subjects. In addition to its general used and out-of-print stock, The Brattle Book Shop also maintains an inventory of collectibles, first editions and fine leather bindings in its rare book room. (photos by Lance Gagnon)

I love Brattle Bookshop and I am so glad The Atlantic did a post about it. Makes me want to go there and explore the rest of their building, I usually stick to the outside books and the first floor, where they have the majority of their poetry books. I think I’ll return tomorrow. :)

Dancing with Swans -l.e. taken in Los Angeles, CA

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:16:00 -0500

Dancing with Swans

-l.e.

taken in Los Angeles, CA

Cornered -l.e. taken in Boston, MA

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:14:04 -0500

Cornered

-l.e.

taken in Boston, MA

Mental Breakthrough -l.e. taken in Boston, MA

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:09:19 -0500

Mental Breakthrough

-l.e.

taken in Boston, MA

A Lovely Conversation with Two Loveliest Beings

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:45:02 -0500

>”Let the rain beat down,

The vagabond finds reprieve,

The path ahead, waits.”

<”As the rain subsides,

Two smiling girls venture out,

Our joyful hearts synced.”

>”Your joyful hearts synced,

Sharing the same beat’in path,

My steps will be near.”

<”Your steps come nearer,

Listening to our laughter,

Our love reaching you.”

>”Your love reaches me,

The echoing sirens song,

Is sweeter from two.”

<”You smile knowingly,

We are together at last,

Three content beings.”

Coffee Roasting Facility… You shall be designed.

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:28:19 -0500

Coffee Roasting Facility…

You shall be designed.

Mmm… That is subtle but sexy.

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:49:24 -0500

Mmm…

That is subtle but sexy.

lickypickystickyfree: Gijs Van Vaerenbergh, a collaboration...

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:47:00 -0500

lickypickystickyfree:

Gijs Van Vaerenbergh, a collaboration between young Belgian architects Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh, have built a see-through church in the Belgian region of Haspengouw. The church is a part of the Z-OUT project of Z33, house for contemporary art based in Hasselt, Belgium.

The church is 10 meters high and is made of 100 layers and 2000 columns of steel. Depending on the perspective of the viewer, the church is either perceived as a massive building or seems to dissolve – partly or entirely – in the landscape. On the other hand, looking at the landscape from within the church, the surrounding countryside is redefined by abstract lines.

The design of the church is based on the architecture of the multitude of churches in the region, but through the use of horizontal plates, the concept of the traditional church is transformed into a transparent object of art.

Ingenius. I love spaces that change without physically changing.

condenasttraveler: Today I took off all my clothes and entered...

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:26:13 -0400

condenasttraveler:

Today I took off all my clothes and entered Giant Psycho Tank—a large, faintly lit, polypropylene tank filled with about a foot of supersaline water. Why did I do this you ask? For the art of the experience, of course. Welcome to the New Museum’s terrifically fun, thrilling and sometimes downright disorienting exhibition Carsten Höller: Experience, on view now through January 15 in NYC. Höller is probably best known for his long, elegant, tubular slides. At this exhibit, visitors can scoot themselves into a 40-feet high, 102-feet long, steel and glass tube on the fourth floor and zoom down to the second floor—screaming all the way. Happily, the nude averse can do this fully clothed.

—Keith Mulvihill

Check out video of the giant slide here.

This is a perfect reason to re-visit New York and the New Museum.