Tag Archives: inspiration

Inspiration/Life: The Wind that Blows Through Us

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Kestrel Slocombe

Interviewer: How old were you when you became a mother? Marie Howe (poet): A hundred. Like those ladies in the Bible. I was a hundred years old. I was Sarah. I was Abraham’s Sarah. I was just telling my students … Continue reading →

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Bees of the Invisible

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Kestrel Slocombe

Everywhere transience is plunging into the depths of Being… It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again, “invisibly,” inside us. We are the bees … Continue reading →

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To Know the Dark

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Kestrel Slocombe

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings. … Continue reading →

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On seeking love

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Kestrel Slocombe

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. – Rumi

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The cat-soul

Posted on May 4, 2013 by Kestrel Slocombe

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Beloved stars

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Kestrel Slocombe

Beloved stars, look down on me. I am a tiny speck in a tiny world. I am a poor atom full of love for you, full of faith in you. —George Sand

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God in man

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Kestrel Slocombe

Seek God in man, for as we seek him there, the more transparent the veil of flesh becomes and the more perfectly we learn to find him there. If we hold ourselves receptive to the life of spirit, we shall … Continue reading →

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How art changes us

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Kestrel Slocombe

I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits in another. The writer gets no points just because what’s inside the box bears some linear resemblance … Continue reading →

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Why Kurt Vonnegut loved to buy envelopes

Posted on April 14, 2013 by Kestrel Slocombe

Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get … Continue reading →

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A tune before dying

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Kestrel Slocombe

While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning how to play a new tune on the flute. “What will be the use of that?” he was asked. “To know this tune before dying.”