true contentment

          “After a while, you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul.  And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning and company doesn’t mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts and presents aren’t promises.  You begin to accept your defeats.
           With your head up and your eyes open. With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child. And you learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow is too uncertain for plans.  And futures have a way of falling down in midflight.  And after a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much.
           So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.  And you learn that you really can endure . . . that you really are strong.  That you really do have worth . . . and you learn . . . and you learn . . .”

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poetry by Pablo Neruda

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I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, 

or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. 

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, 

in secret, between the shadow and the soul. 

I love you as the plant that never blooms 

but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; 

thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance, 

risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body. 

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. 

I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; 

so I love you because I know no other way 

than this: where I does not exist, nor you, 

so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, 

so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep. 

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book sculptures

          With the help of knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer produces some of the finest book sculptures I have ever seen . Dettmer is originally from Chicago, where he studied at Columbia College. 


       Brian Dettmer uses outdated books, dictionaries and encyclopedias and carves them into incredible sculpture artworks.

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the Dreams book

        With books this beautiful, how can we ever say goodbye to print? Maria Fischer’s Traumgedanken (Thoughts on Dreams) is an intricately designed book of dream theories connected by delicately stitched threads. Maria describes the tapestry of words and illustration as an ‘analogue to a dream, where pieces of reality are assembled to build a story’. 

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