abandoned gas station

one of twenty six pics of abandoned gas stations. this one's my favourite

Meeting At An Airport

You asked me once,
on our way back
from the midmorning
trip to the spring:
"What do you hate,
and who do you love?"

And I answered,
from behind the eyelashes
of my surprise,
my blood rushing
like the shadow
cast by a cloud of starlings:
"I hate departure...
I love the spring
and the path to the spring,
and I worship the middle
hours of morning."
And you laughed...
and the almond tree blossomed
and the thicket grew loud with nightingales.

...A question
now four decades old:
I salute that question’s answer;
and an answer,
as old as your departure;
I salute that answer’s question...

...And today,
it’s preposterous,
here we are at a friendly airport
by the slimmest of chances,
and we meet.
Ah, Lord!
we meet.
And here you are
asking—again,
it’s absolutely preposterous—
I recognized you
but you didn’t recognize me.
"Is it you?!"
But you wouldn’t believe it.
And suddenly
you burst out and asked:
"If you’re really you,
What do you hate
and who do you love?!"

And I answered—
my blood
fleeing the hall,
rushing in me
like the shadow
cast by a cloud of starlings:
"I hate departure,
and I love the spring,
and the path to the spring,
and I worship the middle
hours of morning."

And you wept,
and flowers bowed their heads,
and doves in the silk of their sorrow stumbled.

- Taha Muhammad Ali

happiness only real when shared

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar;
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.

Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

so u think u can tell

its been a long time since we blogged! it was fun for a while eh?

casey i recently dug up tt huge-ass bday pop-up card u made for me before i left for india haha still damn cool la, wish i cld have it propped up somewhere. if only we were fucking rich - i'd make a life-size set of tt stage u drew. and get life-sized statutes of us in gold

mayb tts why pple like erecting statutes of great pple, sth permanent n set in stone (or gold). our statutes will have us holding an empty crystal cup in our hands and we'll have it constantly topped up with chivas 21 yrs everyday

speaking of which! nicky and i have a new drink to intro u! we r damn atas now so we upgraded to Macallen single malt scotch - whatever the fuck tt is

see u soon man

FUCK YEAH!!!