How long did you wait for the sun to find you before you fled your unlit rooms and your flickering screens and took barefoot to all the fields outside your door?
[photo by Select Study Abroad, text by Coffeegirl]
Poetry: ‘Big Sky’
The Kid rode west. That was where the light went. A small house there. The rest of it below the prairie. The Kid only a small moving piece that never reached the horizon. The distance reduced into a proverb.
-Bob Hemen, Right Hand Pointing
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Art Love: Rain on the Docks
Before just the daylight
Come and I stand by
Waiting to catch the quickest plane
Fly me to nowhere
it’s better than somewhere
That’s where I’ve been and nothing’s changed –“Angel of Mercy,” One Republic
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Cameron Crowe’s ‘Aloha’ Official Trailer Starring Bradley Cooper and Judd Apatow’s ‘Trainwreck’ with Amy Schumer
Aloha has the most all-star cast of delicious people I’ve seen in a long time: Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Bill Murray, Rachel McAdams, John Krasinksi And a rom-com of another stripe…
and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. 60’s spy caper starring Henry Cavill
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Quotidian: Atticus on Poetry
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Healthy Work Snacks
1. Crunchpak is the leading brand in the U.S. for fresh apple slices, and my favorite; their fruit is crunchy, fresh, just sweet enough, and takes a good week to go brown. It’s so much easier to grab a pack of pre-sliced apples and take to work rather than chopping up a new one every day. Very cheap, also – about $4 at every major grocery chain. Pick one up on your next swing through the fruit and veggies section at your grocery store.
2. Brookside chocolate, meanwhile, is the perfect counterpart to the apple slices and the perfect post-lunch snack; the high-quality chocolate is wrapped around delicious, chewy pomegranate (you can get your preferred fruit, I like pomegranate). Dark chocolate is good for the body due to antioxidants, and this snack is rich enough that I’m rarely tempted to eat more than a few at a time. It’s slightly pricier at around $5 per pack, but one pack lasts 1-2 weeks depending on how fast you go through it.
I’ve tried quite a number of work snacks – I also recommend plain almonds – but these are the ones which have stuck as far as ease of use and deliciousness leading to long use. Upgrade your desk food with these easy, delicious snacks.
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From “Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of my City” by Durs Grünbein
“My little bird won’t come”
—Immanuel Kant, 1803
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Why moan about it, Johnny-come-lately? My friend,
When you were born your city was long gone.
Misty eyes don’t turn hair grey and you,
Your name: too quick for it, too green.
Seventeen years, a childhood hardly, were plenty
To erase the past. They sealed the wounds all up
In strict and somber grey; enchantment ceded to bureaucracy.
The Saxon peacock wasn’t slaughtered out of need—
Lichens, inexorable, bloomed on sandstone flowers.
They come back like hiccups, elegies: why brood, why bother?
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Poetry: ‘Suicides”
I’ve known a few. Found one, in fact.
Surprising there aren’t more,
When you stop to think of it.
I mean, it’s not hard to do,
really, if one is intent,
and we are an impulsive species—
what more natural than at some moment of great pain
to just say “Screw it” and duck out?
And yet it would seem that most of the time
there’s something holding us to life,
a kind of gravity that stills or thwarts
all but the most determined.
The one I found, he talked of it.
I didn’t try to dissuade him—
he had his reasons.
But that gravity stayed him somehow,
kept him in place through wave after wave of temptation,
until, quite suddenly, it didn’t.
-Ben Downing, The Yale Review
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Illustration Love
I am not quite certain, but I think that this gorgeous landscape is from this Japanese artist
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Illustration Love: Bend and Not Break, Clara Oswald
Designer and illustrator Alice X Zhang is one of my favorite illustrators of all time. Check out her portfolio here. 
Bend and not Break
Remember me
Coffee and Irony 