Quote of the Week - Jarmusch

"The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them, and I think it is very important to embrace things that interest you and influence you, and incorporate them into what you do, as all artists have always done. The ones that say they don't, are lying. Or are afraid that their work won't be seen as being original, somehow."

~Jim Jarmusch, IndieWire

Love this.  Can't wait to see Only Lovers Left Alive!  The whole interview in IndieWire is great - watch out for spoilers!

Hope your NaPoWriMo is going well - we are posting poems daily with prompts for the next day so check in!

Also check out my guest post on the Poejazzi blog!

Making the best of Monday...

Quote of the Week - Buchanan

Something Beautiful
by Shonda Buchanan

Our lives are the alters.
The shelf we intend to put good things on.
Candle, rock, bone.
Soft kiss, tight hug. Sisters. Smell of a newborn's neck.
A car's wheels on freeway across a country,
the traveler's lonely song a fast forgotten whisper on
ghost darkened roads.
Sunsets I've swallowed and those that swallowed me.
Bare-breasted moons over a DC power out sky.
Salt in my aging body. Sacrifice of four days and nights
without food or water.
The pale loss of mothers and land. Shelterness nights.
Hot memory of hunger and want. Then, regaining of ground.
The waking up. Starting over again.
It is every step, this life thing. Books we read, cry into and pass on.
Our children, men, wives.
Oceans and marches and graduations on Facebook.
A Indian grandmother's face and fists against Canadian embassy door.
Malaysian sister curled into her kids. Wolf pups howling for the right
to be unhunted. Guns being traded back in. Guns leaving our hands.
Our lives are like the leaves we turn over to see the other side of---new.
A possibility to save the one we didn't save. To undo and make right.
Burn old angers and rise above.
Be braver; share what we can.
Kiss the broken pieces up to God.
Every moment is that chance we secretly want someone to offer us back.
When someone comes to you, give over to the sincerity in each other's eyes.
Find the something beautiful,
put it where you can see it every day and hold on.
Follow our first instinct
and do no harm.

If your life is the altar, best keep it swept and sacred.  

It's Monday - have a new start!  

Thanks to Shonda for her words - as always!

Quote of the Week - Morrison

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough. 

- Toni Morrison (via Goodreads)

Pretty much devoting today to beauty.  Sometimes that means a whole lot of housecleaning!  Enjoy this week before things start to want to feel like winter.

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