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Charles Wright: Our Dreams are Luminous

February 25, 2016December 7, 2015 eccsimpson

                  Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world. Morning arrives and that’s it. Sunlight darkens the earth. –Charles Wright Continue reading Charles Wright: Our Dreams are Luminous

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Pablo Picasso: Everything You Can Imagine is Real

February 18, 2016December 7, 2015 eccsimpson

Everything you can imagine is real. ― Pablo Picasso Continue reading Pablo Picasso: Everything You Can Imagine is Real

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Robert Fulghum: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

February 4, 2016February 4, 2016 eccsimpson

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that … Continue reading Robert Fulghum: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

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Lana Del Ray: I Was Always an Unusual Girl

January 28, 2016February 3, 2016 eccsimpson

I was always an unusual girl.  My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean. ― Lana … Continue reading Lana Del Ray: I Was Always an Unusual Girl

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Anne Frank: The Best Remedy

January 21, 2016January 21, 2016 eccsimpson

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should … Continue reading Anne Frank: The Best Remedy

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How the Sun Loved the Moon

January 14, 2016January 21, 2016 eccsimpson

  Tell me the story about how the sun loved the moon so much he died every night to let her breathe. -Unknown Continue reading How the Sun Loved the Moon

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Anne Bronte: I love the silent hour of night

January 7, 2016January 21, 2016 eccsimpson

I love the silent hour of night, For blissful dreams may then arise, Revealing to my charmed sight What may not bless my waking eyes. ― Anne Brontë, Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters   Continue reading Anne Bronte: I love the silent hour of night

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The Sky is Everywhere

December 31, 2015January 5, 2016 eccsimpson

There were once two sisters who were not afraid of the dark because the dark was full of the other’s voice across the room, because even when the night was thick and starless they walked home together from the river seeing who could last the longest without turning … Continue reading The Sky is Everywhere

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In the Bleak Midwinter

December 24, 2015January 5, 2016 eccsimpson

In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, long ago. -Christina Rossetti, In the Bleak Midwinter Continue reading In the Bleak Midwinter

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Yasunari Kawabata: Palm-of-the-Hand Stories

November 25, 2015December 1, 2015 eccsimpson

The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand.  Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night. –Yasunari Kawabata, Palm-of-the-Hand Stories Continue reading Yasunari Kawabata: Palm-of-the-Hand Stories

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Walking In Wonderland

November 20, 2015March 8, 2016 eccsimpson

“Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?” The cat asked, “Where do you want to go?” “I don’t know,” Alice answered. “Then,” said the cat, “it really doesn’t matter, does it?” … Continue reading Walking In Wonderland

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Edgar Allen Poe: Spirits of the Dead

October 31, 2015November 25, 2015 eccsimpson

Be silent in that solitude, Which is not loneliness—for then The spirits of the dead, who stood In life before thee, are again In death around thee, and their will Shall overshadow thee; be still. —From “Spirits of the Dead” … Continue reading Edgar Allen Poe: Spirits of the Dead

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