Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Tag: good quotes

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    “All my life, false and real, right and wrong entangled. Playing with the moon, ridiculing wind, listening to birds, many years were wasted seeing the mountain covered with snow. This winter, I suddenly realize snow makes a mountain.”                                  …

  • On kindness

    On kindness

    “You never have to regret or apologize for nice.” –Matthew Thompson, aka @twinlensreflux   I have been coming back to this conversation I had on Twitter this past Friday. Very wise words to live by. I feel like this is everything I’ve been learning about the Precepts distilled down into a nice tidy sentence. P.S.…

  • “Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?” ― Salvador Dalí

  • “Rebellion is obsolete – change things from the inside working out.”                                                                  – Mark Mothersbaugh

  • the line

    “The truth of the line overwhelms all other considerations.” -Leonard Cohen, The Book Of Longing. I have been reading The Book Of Longing and have been very inspired by it. I really want to learn more about Cohen. He wrote some of it while staying at Mt Baldy Zen Center as a Buddhist Monk in…