Born this day

As the crickets’ soft autumn hum 
is to us 
so are we to the trees
as are they 
to the rocks and the hills. 

Daniel Johnston, Speeding Motorcycle

Fear by Raymond Carver

Fear of seeing a police car pull into the drive.
Fear of falling asleep at night.
Fear of not falling asleep.
Fear of the past rising up.
Fear of the present taking flight.
Fear of the telephone that rings in the dead of night.
Fear of electrical storms.
Fear of the cleaning woman who has a spot on her cheek!
Fear of dogs I've been told won't bite.
Fear of anxiety!
Fear of having to identify the body of a dead friend.
Fear of running out of money.
Fear of having too much, though people will not believe this.
Fear of psychological profiles.
Fear of being late and fear of arriving before anyone else.
Fear of my children's handwriting on envelopes.
Fear they'll die before I do, and I'll feel guilty.
Fear of having to live with my mother in her old age, and mine.
Fear of confusion.
Fear this day will end on an unhappy note.
Fear of waking up to find you gone.
Fear of not loving and fear of not loving enough.
Fear that what I love will prove lethal to those I love.
Fear of death.
Fear of living too long.
Fear of death.

I've said that.

"Stop the clocks, kill the firstborn, rename the moon "Thatcher" and then set fire to the sea. Boil the air, ban Death, privatise the trees and drape the clouds in thick, rough, bibleblack taffeta. Strangle Time, arrest thought, dilute tears and yank a Kraken's arse til it whinnies like a narwhal. Fuck this, fuck that, fuck everything & bay at the moon like a werewolf on acid. But believe me, Tories, she ain't coming back!" ~ Martin Rowson (on Twitter)

Born on this day.

Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, 1490

Gianlorenzo Bernini, Medusa, 1630s

Via.

Died this day

Monday | 8 April 2013 | 02:22 PM

"That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." ~ Ernest Hemingway