if they catch you in the darga,

Ella Walker

ending —> transition —> beginning —> ending —> transition —> beginning —> ending —> transition —> beginning —> ending —> transition —> beginning —>

hand to earth: andy goldsworthy sculpture 1976-1990

Do not give legs to mind noise, instead reorient to the simple 'I am'. It is not a direction to go in, but a complete negation of all directions. Rest in this quietude without effort and eventually a lightness and love will be made known. Although it may be just a fleeting glimpse, you recognize it as your true nature. The unruly mind may obliterate its vision but with unwavering belief, it is bound to return . There will be a day when the delusions and attachments end and life becomes supremely concentrated in the present.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Galdrakver (‘Little Book Of Magic’) The ‘Little Book Of Magic’ is a seventeenth-century Icelandic manuscript, written on animal skin and containing magical staves, sigils, prayers, charms and related texts.

It is known to have once been owned by Icelandic Bishop Hannes Finnson who was alive from 1739 until 1796 and known for having a vast library containing many volumes of magic related texts and manuscripts. Full manuscript here.

twenty-one love poems, x by Adrienne Rich

Lisa Brice

There are many primers on how to start with Ursula K. Le Guin, all of them perfectly fine, but I haven’t seen any that just go with “Start with what’s available and easily accessible”. 

“The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” is available online, and it’s only four typewritten pages. Confession: I hadn’t read this until today. You may think, as I did, because you know the story through osmosis (as probably many people who are familiar with sci-fi do) you don’t need to read it. You would be wrong.

This website has collated stories that are available online. They all appear to be from free sources like Baen, Lightspeed, and Clarkesworld.

On Le Guin’s personal website there is a great deal of stuff: poetry (original and in translation), book excerpts, interviews, and writing advice. 

She blogged pretty extensively for many years, and there’s some lovely stuff in there. Her penultimate entry was about her cat Pard and the Time Machine. (just Ctrl + F for “pard” on the archive index. Trust me.)

Don’t let me stop you from going to the library or your online bookstore of choice to get her books, of course, but there’s plenty of stuff available that you don’t have to go very far to access.

Spicebush Swallowtail Butterfly Wing by Darrell Gulin

One of Yoko Ono’s instruction pieces with the words, “Earth Piece, Listen to the sound of the earth turning. 1963, spring.” A page of instructions from ‘‘Grapefruit” (1964), one of Yoko Ono’s instruction pieces, at the exhibition “Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971,” at the Museum of Modern Art, 2015. Credt: Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

Joan Mitchell (1925 - 1992) - “Two Sunflowers” (1980), Tate Modern, London

start seeing everything as God, but keep it a secret

An Encounter with Simone Weil 

“The treatment of soul is what heals, finally whether at the individual or the corporate level.  This means disciplining the ego to ask, patiently and sincerely, “What does the soul ask of me?” And then to serve that purpose to the best of one’s abilities.”   

~James Hollis (The Eden Project, In Search of the Magical Other)

La Tentation d’Ève / The Temptation of Eve  Première moitié du XIIème siècle / First half of the 12th century  Calcaire / limestone, 72 x 131 cm Attribuée à / attributed to Gislebert (Gislebertus)  Musée Rolin, Autun, France  Photo Alamandar, source fr.wikipedia.org

yes by William Stafford

Henni Alftan (Finnish, 1979), Round Table II, 2024. Oil on linen, 114 x 146 cm.