AmeriCamera Recording Session: Paul’s Magic Dragon January 18, 2010

Fortunately, Paul’s magic dragon translates scored music and hums it into Paul’s navel, simultaneously removing all lint.

And if you go chasing rabbits/And you know you’re going to fall January 17, 2010

photo by T.R. Hummer Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor that just wanted to see what it was like in there. —Karl Kraus

The Monster a Child Knows Best January 16, 2010

The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. —Bruno Bettelheim

The Machine in the Snowbank; or How Do Desert People Dance in the Snow? January 16, 2010

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead. —James Joyce

the kingdom where nobody dies January 3, 2010

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is. —Edna St. Vincent Millay

the last romance December 3, 2009

The romance of your child’s childhood may be the last romance you can give up. — Adam Gopnik

or else alone November 30, 2009

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. —Rainer Maria Rilke

the foremost civilized nation November 30, 2009

“The country which first recognizes its responsibilities to the child,” S. W. Newmayer wrote in 1911, ”will receive the recognition of the world as being the foremost civilized nation.” Newmayer had just been asked to guide Philadelphia’s child health and welfare efforts, and as he surveyed indicators of child healthfrom around the world, he found that the United States [...]

in varying proportions November 29, 2009

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions. ~D.H. Lawrence

Rest November 27, 2009

  Without haste, but without rest. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe