you've already passed this moment...

The street were still full of trees, bare in winter, so that we could see all the way to the frozen river. I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand matters, money problems, love problems, school problems. People were falling in love, getting married, going to drug rehab, learning how to ice-skate, getting bifocals, studying for exams, trying on clothes, getting their hair cut, and getting born. And in some houses people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really matter. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.

Jeffrey Eugenides,
Middelsex





The deep sea anglerfish is a lonely creature. It lives in extreme conditions where there is little difference between day and night. It lurks, waving its bioluminescence back and forth, in the hopes of luring another creature into its orbit. Good meals are hard to come by. Good friends, even more so. Sometimes the only company the anglerfish ever has is its own glow, but even that, you have to admit, is better than nothing at all.

Greg Santos






“ I look at people as ideas. I don’t look at them as people. I’m talking about general observation. Whoever I see, I look at them as an idea — what this person represents. That’s the way I see life."


Bob Dylan