It's Just Gone

"One day you're there, and then, all of a sudden, there's less of you.  And you wonder where that part went, if it's living somewhere outside of you.  And you keep thinking maybe you'll get it back, and then you realize: it's just gone."


"Meditations in an Emergency," Mad Men, Episode 13, Season 2

Touch the Earth

"Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, rest your spirit in her solitary places.  For the gifts of life are the earth's and they are given to all; they are the songs of birds at daybreak . . . dawn seen over the ocean from the beach."


The Outermost House by Henry Beston

The Riddle of the Sphinx

"Wilderness and desert haunt

the tumult of your hair;

without a word, your lips propose

the riddle of the Sphinx...."

"Song for Late in the Day" by Charles Baudelaire