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arablit · 1 year

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‘Point Zéro’: A Graphic Novel that Centers the Desert as Protagonist

Special from Arabook Translated from the Italia by Arabook “This book is not meant to give answers. I have nothing to say. I’m researching. And this book will be related to my research, in the most honest way possible. May this book be completed, without concessions.” Point Zéro, page 122 The desert, existence, fear: these are the pillars of Point Zéro, a graphic novel recognized in 2017 and…

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#Abir Sasmi #graphic novel #Kamal Zakour #Point Zero

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araleeway · 5 years

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falling

...you always put your hand out to see if it’s raining.”

Colette, Earthly Paradise, p54

#morning meandering #promise of autumn #crisp morning #sherbert sky #coffee steaming visably #sweats comfort #sean sleeping:)#words work wonders #human #rain #brainpickings #colette #arabooks #autumn #falling #UM #she got me creeping thru the sunrise...#big something

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araleeway · 4 years

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I wish I had a river I could skate away on...

Jean-Pierre Weil, The Well of Being, p9

There is a mystery about rivers that draws us to them, for they rise from hidden places and travel by routes that are not always tomorrow where they might be today... -Olivia Laing via Brainpickings

Mary Oliver, A River Far Away and Long Ago, Redbird, p 22-23

Even though I know the river is wide/ I walk down every evening and I stand on the shore/ I try to cross to the opposite side/ So I can finally find out what I've been looking for. --Billy Joel

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araleeway · 4 years

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Mark Nepo, river of light, p54

#namaste🙏🏼#🙀#drinking from the river of light #drinking #the river #river of light #river #ride the wave #being #indigenous perception #perception #an invitation to perception #surrender to what is #surrender #arabook #mark nepo

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araleeway · 4 years

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Mark Nepo, River of light, p244

#dance #mind the gap #river of light #mark nepo #poetry #arapo #arabook

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araleeway · 4 years

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Mark Nepo, Drinking from River of Light, p7

paradoxically, it is the undertow that swells into the majesty of the next wave.

#expect the unexpected #paradox #leave a trail?#namaste🙏🏼#mark nepo #river of light #arapo #poetry #arabook #journey #path #on the road again #headed home #home

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araleeway · 4 years

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Drinking from the river of light, Mark Nepo, p3

#wh auden #mark nepo #river of light #arabook #dreaism #namaste🙏🏼

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araleeway · 5 years

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Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me?

A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?

—Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

#silences #seeker #breath #questions i have to answer #alice?!?#become my life #kahlil gibran #nickdrake #the prophet #sunday #morning meandering #brainpickings #silence #reap what you sow #seek #arabook

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araleeway · 5 years

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Wallace Stevens, A Rabbit as King of Ghosts

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Andrea D’Aquino

down the rabbit hole. do cats eat bats? do bats eat cats?

#meandering thru words #down the rabbit hole #do cats eat bats?#do bats eat cats?#wallace stevens #poetry #andrea d’aquino #alice #arabook #gregory orr #we're all mad here #dreams #flying #free

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araleeway · 5 years

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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“In Wildness Is the Preservation if the World”, Selections & Photographs by Eliot Porter, 1962, p104-105.

The two—the hero and his ultimate god, the seeker and the found—are thus understood as the outside and the inside of a single, self-mirrored mystery, which is identical with the mystery of the manifest world. The great deed of the supreme hero is to come to the knowledge of this unity in multiplicity and then to make it known.

Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, p31

“Pop!”--Pooh.

A. A. Milne, Three Stories from Winnie-the-Pooh, illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard.1966. p20-21

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araleeway · 5 years

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Bright Star

by John Keats

p104, A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry by Gregory Orr

#star #constellation #sparkling #detatched #sparkling and detached.#paradox #namaste🙏🏼#john keats #gregory orr #poetry #arabook

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araleeway · 5 years

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Nature, the total of all of us, is the wheel that drives our world; those who ride it willingly might yet catch a glimpse of a dazzling, even a spiritual restfulness, while those who are unwilling simply hang on, who insist that the world must be piloted by man for his own benefit, will be dragged around and around all the same, gathering dust but no joy.

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I would not be the overlord of a single blade of grass, that I might be it’s sister.

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We are, none of us, cute.

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Mary Oliver , Blue pastures, p92-93

#mary oliver #blue pastures #cute #niagra or nothing #grass #light #namaste🙏🏼#blue in the face trying to explain this to Keith!#blue #arabook

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araleeway · 5 years

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Full circle from the tomb of the womb to the womb of the tomb we come, an ambiguous, enigmatical incursion into a world of solid matter that is soon to melt from us like the substance of a dream.

—Joseph Campbell, Hero with a Thousand Faces , p8

#aracay #arabook #quote #joseph cambell #dream on #herow/1kfaces

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araleeway · 4 years

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“Only that day dawns to which we are awake.”

Henry David Thoreau, Walden