And if sun comes How shall we greet him? Shall we not dread him, Shall we not fear him After so lengthy a Session with shade? Gwendolyn Brooks “truth” in Annie Allen. Greenwood Press (1949)
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I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. Galileo Galilei (via jtotheizzoe)
August feels like a hinge in the year. Swing backwards and summer is there, swing forward and fall is waiting. I’m in the swing forward camp. I’m never sorry to the see summer end, although I’ll miss the peaches. I’m ready for sweaters and socks and new suede shoes. Stephanie Madewell There is nothing better …
nprmusic: Laura Mvula’s mix of classic soul and modern breeziness can be difficult to locate on a calendar, let alone a map. Classically trained and only 26, she writes songs that sound like the whole world at once. Stream Sing To The Moon now. Sing to the Moon is my favorite album of the year …
I thought of this scene from Portlandia when I just walked into our surprisingly sun-light kitchen. We don’t get that intense winter sun that often in this neck of the woods.
Best Coast’s new song The Only Place serves both my longing for sun and my fernweh.