Everything was as it should be

… but was it?  We didn’t have to look about us to answer no. It was earlier than early inside us. We were wide open.  The one looked at the other and realized that our ordinary everyday life had vanished for the time being.  If this had been true of only one of us at first, now it was true for both.  It had leaped across like lightning.  Suddenly there was a strange shimmer in the air.

I wished he would say: I can see it on you.
He looked at me and said, beyond all reason: ‘I can see it on you.’
I felt myself burn. Don’t say any more, I wished, and he didn’t.
What was to come of this?
Something is approaching.
Per was no longer his usual self.
What had we done to each other?
Without saying anything more, we knew: It is today.


 
— Tarjei Vesaas (from Spring in the Winter)

Worry Not

My good friend & longtime collaborator J Allen has just released a beautiful new EP, ‘Worry Not’. Check out the video for ‘Bring Her Back Home’ below and visit his Bandcamp page for vinyls & more!  

Paradise

“On the surface, where the historical battles rage, where everything is interpreted in terms of money and power, there may be crowding, but life only begins when one drops below the surface, when one gives up the struggle, sinks and disappears from sight. Now I can as easily not write as write: there is no longer any compulsion, no longer any therapeutic aspect to it. Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy: I drop my fruits like a ripe tree  […]  Paradise is everywhere and every road, if one continues along it far enough, leads to it.”

— Henry Miller