The Tree Of Life (2011) Dir. Terrence Malick

“I read the poem of a student and in the poem God wandered through a room picking up random objects – a pear, a vase, a shoe – and in bewilderment said, ‘I made this?’. Apparently God had forgotten making anything at all. I awarded this poem a prize, because I was a judge of such matters. I was not really awarding the student, I was awarding God; I knew someday the student would pick up his old poem and say in bewilderment, ‘I made this?’, and at that moment his whole world would be lost in the twilight, and when you are finally lost in the twilight you can not judge anything.”

— “On Twilight,” Mary Reufle

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Louise Glück, from an interview with poet in Poets & Writers

Fish farms on the Nile delta - Egypt 🌍 4K link

-Good neighbours-

Nature doesn’t have to come as second nature. Experience is what makes the gardener. The trials, the errors, the joys, the agonies: You’re a gardener when you’ve had your share of it all. -- Catie Marron in The Washington Post

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

— Annie Dillard 

–Palestinian poet and editor of Mizna, George Abraham.

Mount Fuji seen from the International Space Station.

I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy. I believe that loss and emptiness and confusion often give way to new fullness and wisdom.

— Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way