Loving your neighbor as yourself is the most imaginative thing you can do.

Friday Five: Five cultural artifacts that shaped my week Music by Benjamin Booker, Lilly Hiatt and The Laughing Chimes Words by Forrest Gander and Joyelle McSweeney

If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.

And finally, "Mountain" (1966)

Friday Five: Five cultural artifacts that shaped my week Music by @rhettmiller, @mogwaiband and @BlushingBand Words by Catherine Pierce and @RobbieMaakestad

All I know is that "thank you" should appear somewhere. So, just in case I can't find the perfect place— "Thank you, thank you."

RT @impression_ists: René Magritte, The Art of Conversation

RT @SVG__Collection: Nina Simone

Friday Five: Five cultural artifacts that shaped my week Music by @RustonKelly, @iamyola and Jasmine 4.t Words by Li-Young Lee and @Nic_Sealey

Friday Five: Five cultural artifacts that shaped my week Music by @lucydacus, @TheLoneBellow and Mac DeMarco Words from Ben Ratliff and @jillkitchen

I think about this David Lynch-Roger Ebert exchange all the time. Literally can't think of better advice before someone experiences my writing than "You already do understand it. Get a lot of good coffee, though. And some good food." RIP, king.

But here's the kingdom we call remembrance with its thousand iron doors through which I pass so easily, switching on the old lights as I go— while the dead wind rises and the old rapture rewinds, the stiff waters once more begin to kick and flow.