other heros

rory stewart, who 11 years ago walked across Afghanistan in a straight line through the central mountains, from Herat to Kabul, following the footsteps of the first Mughal emperor Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur.

Babur the dog, in the heart of the blizzard, stopped to savor the bouquet of a wet grass hummock.  As we moved on the weather shifted, as did the sharp angles of the slopes, revealing new valleys on each side.  My mind flitted from half-remembered poetry to things I had done of which I was ashamed.  I stumbled on the uneven path.  I lifted my eyes to the sky behind the peaks and felt the silence.  This was what I had imagined a wilderness to be.

and paul salopek, who recently began his 7-year walk to retrace the migration path of early humans 'out of eden,' from Ethiopia across the middle east through Asia via Alaska down the western edge of the americas to the southern tip of chile.

zadie/joni

Just before our love got lost you said

"I am as constant as a northern star"

And I said "Constantly in the darkness

Where's that at?

If you want me I'll be in the bar"

Pohádka, Leoš Janáček

Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C Major, WTC II, BWV 870, J.S. Bach

Lachrimae Pavane, John Dowland

Fantasias 1 & 2 for Solo Flute, George Philipp Telemann

Mad Rush, Philip Glass

to lucy brown

What means the fact - which is so common - so universal - that some soul that has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another listening soul an infinite confidence in it, even while it is expressing its despair?

HDT, 24/1/1843

jeremiah

"Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar?"



I was thinking that we - we are romantics at heart.

So much so that we fear intimacy.

But those bumps, fissures, unmet expectations

and even the mundane -
isn't that what moves us beyond the story
or at least begins it?

1Q84

"We needed that much time," Tengo said, 

"to understand how lonely we really were."