The Episcopal priest asked me prior to baptizing you — ‘what are you going to do to nurture her spiritual life?’
‘Read her stories.’ It was the best answer I had — though I could have added, ‘take her to the sea.’
My mum! Christmas card 2011
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Andrew Carnegie built an impressive 2,509 libraries around the turn of the 20th century. Now Rick Brooks and Todd Bol are on a mission to top his total with their two-foot by two-foot Little Free Libraries.
The diminutive, birdhouse-like libraries, which Brooks and Bol began installing in Hudson and Madison, Wisconsin, in 2009, are typically made of wood and Plexiglas and are designed to hold about 20 books for community members to borrow and enjoy. Offerings include anything from Russian novels and gardening guides to French cookbooks and Dr. Seuss.
Well this is adorable.
(via speakerforthetrees)
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I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even though you are approaching Sappho in translation, that is no reason you should miss the drama of trying to read a papyrus torn in half or riddled with holes or smaller than a postage stamp—brackets imply a free space of imaginal adventure.
Anne Carson, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (via rainydayrunner)
one of my favorite books of all time. anne carson did an incredible job with it.
(via proustitute)
