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This is Major Tom to Ground Control. I’m stepping through the door and I’m floating in a most peculiar way and the stars look very different today.

bowie 1947-2016

SO is an English word that, apart from its other uses, has become increasingly popular in recent years as a coordinating conjunctive opening word in a sentence, according to Wikipedia.

wanderer

On Sunday midnight Venus with her realms and courts arrives at our traveling angel Mercury of fire who carries the advice of the measure of all beginnings into the space.

mundanomaniac

In Rome in the year 208, Quintus Serenus Sammonicus wrote ‘Liber medecinalis,’ a book in which he revealed his discoveries in the arts of healing. 

Among other remedies, this physician to two emperors, poet and owner of the best library of his time, proposed an infallible way to avoid tertian fever and deep death at bay: by hanging a word across your chest day and night.

The word was ‘Abracadabra,’ which in ancient Hebrew meant and still means, ‘Give your fire until the last of your days.’

eduardo galeano

Vellichor n. the strange wistfulness of used bookstores, which are somehow infused with the passage of time – filled with thousands of old books you’ll never have time to read, each of which is itself locked in its own era, bound and dated and papered over like an old room the author abandoned years ago, a hidden annex littered with thoughts left just as they were on the day they were captured.

obscure

The wind will be easterly with a light speed and the sea waves will be low in height.

wanderer weather report

If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art and who don’t even know it, who wouldn’t believe it if they were told.

terry windling, the wood wife

Remember to remember where you left the frying pan.

wanderer via alice

Imagine you and your canoe have been pitched upon a sandbar…..… 

wanderer

Tilt your head slightly to one side and lift your eyebrows expectantly. Ask questions. Delve into the subject at hand or let things come randomly. Don’t expect answers. Forget everything you’ve ever done. Make no comparisons. Simply listen. Listen without blinking, as if a move might frighten the truth away forever. Don’t attempt to copy anything down. Don’t bring a camera or a recorder. This is a chance to listen carefully. Your whole life might depend on what you hear.

joyce sutphen