I will touch you with my mind

“It all matters. That someone turns out the lamp, picks up the windblown wrapper, says hello to the invalid, pays at the unattended lot, listens to the repeated tale, folds the abandoned laundry, plays the game fairly, tells the story honestly, acknowledges help, gives credit, says good night, resists temptation, wipes the counter, waits at the yellow, makes the bed, tips the maid, remembers the illness, congratulates the victor, accepts the consequences, takes a stand, steps up, offers a hand, goes first, goes last, chooses the small portion, teaches the child, tends to the dying, comforts the grieving, removes the splinter, wipes the tear, directs the lost, touches the lonely, is the whole thing. What is most beautiful is least acknowledged. What is worth dying for is barely noticed.” — Laura McBride, We Are Called to Rise

James Nedresky, Spring range burn #2, Kansas Flint Hills #mood

“I kissed her until there was more happiness inside me than sadness.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz

— Malia Makana, from “Like Differently Love.”

The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for programming it, then it will be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environment. Timothy Leary #gn

— Arabelle Sicardi, from “The Year in Ugliness.”

In dumb ways.

Suddenly i realise that if i stepped out of my body, i would break into blossom James Wright

Pablo Neruda, ‘Every Day You Play’