Everything is Beautiful - Charles Bukowski

"Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch it, it is all there and all ours for the taking."
- Cecilia to Henry Chinaski (liberty taken changing past tense to present tense)
- Charles Bukowski
[Henry Chinaski is the literary alter ego of Charles Bukowski, appearing in several of his novels, short stories and poems.]

Night Fall from Colin Rich

NightFall from Colin Rich on Vimeo.

Denver Botanic Gardens with Wolf and Gracie

 

 

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Denver Botanic Gardens with Wolf and Gracie

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Marsh - Outside of Bismo, Norway

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People are Frightened of Themselves

"People are frightened of themselves. It's like Freud saying that the best thing is to have no sensation at all, as if we're supposed to live painlessly and unconsciously in the world. I have a much different view. The ancients are right: the dear old human experience is a singular, difficult, shadowed, brilliant experience that does not resolve into being comfortable in the world. The valley of the shadow is part of that, and you are depriving yourself if you do not experience what humankind has experienced, including doubt and sorrow. We experience pain and difficulty as failure instead of saying, I will pass through this, everyone I have ever admired has passed through this, music has come out of this, literature has come out of it. We should think of our humanity as a privilege."
- Marilynne Robinson
The Art of Fiction No. 198the paris review
settled things strange

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Mars Poetica

Mars Poetica
by Wyn Cooper

Imagine you're on Mars, looking at earth,
a swirl of colors in the distance.
Tell us what you miss most, or least.

Let your feelings rise to the surface.
Skim that surface with a tiny net.
Now you're getting the hang of it.

Tell us your story slantwise,
streetwise, in the disguise
of an astronaut in his suit.

Tell us something we didn't know
before: how words mean things
we didn't know we knew.

Grand Finale 2010-2011

Grand Finale 2010-11 from McLean Fahnestock on Vimeo.