bridge to terabithia

"I love revision." Katherine Paterson

Photo of Les Puces de Saint-Quen

by Jordan Ferney of Oh Happy Day

we know some things

"Students can get so bombarded in science classes and think that all is known. It's not. A book like this [ A Wrinkle in Time] can help them realize that we know some things, but really very very little." Shannon Lucid

Photo: NASA

but I'm always trying to get rid of my faults

"Meg, I give you your faults."

"My faults!" Meg cried.

"Your faults."

"But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!"

From A Wrinkle in Time

Photo by Elizabeth Weinberg

I've never been patient!

"But I'm not patient!" Meg cried passionately. "I've never been patient!" A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle

Photo: Madeleine L'Engle, 1946 from The Guardian

sometimes resting

Amos & Boris via UE

just one of the reasons

I love The Guardian.

Artwork from It's a Book, by Lane Smith

taking a trip

Because it's summertime.

Ewan Mcgregor's restored VW Van via Frolic

via

Sarah Mei Herman via Scout Minami

puff

via Curious Pages. Also and unrelated: Summertime 1966, Giza, and ama.

they care not

"When I do come into contact with children, I find them a disconcertingly tough audience. They care not for blurb or kudos, literary allusion or postmodern antics. Instead, they study every inch of a thing and are bluntly honest about it." Shaun Tan

Photo from the astounding Wendy Ewald

reprise

Les Poppys.

some days you must

"I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything."

E.L. Konigsburg
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler
Photo by Jody Rogac via Simple Lovely

change sounds like this

Saw a Youth Speaks performance tonight. Mind blowing.

Photo: San Francisco Chronicle

stone animals

Tilly has divided the yard in half. Carleton is not allowed in her half, unless she gives permission.

From the bottom of of her half of the yard, where the trees run beside the driveway, Tilly can barely see the house. She's decided to name the yard Matilda's Rabbit Kingdom. Tilly loves naming things. When the new baby is born, her mother has promised that she can help pick out the real names, although there will only be two real names, a first one and a middle. Tilly doesn't understand why there can only by two. Oishi means "delicious" in Japanese. That would make a good name, either for the baby or for the yard...

From "Stone Animals" in Magic For Beginners by Kelly Link.
Photo: "Bunny" by Pamela Klaffke.

standing still

un fille comme moi.

the knitting factory

NYT.

the kick inside

I Love Cat Party found a rare book of childhood photos of Kate Bush, taken by John Carder Bush. More here.

another condition

"So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, and intolerable waiting, a longing for another place and time, another condition." Theodore Roethke.

Teen City: The Adventure of Adolescence at The Musee de L'Elysee, via artdaily.org. Photo: Hanne van der Woude, "Katinka and Annabel"

all the lives that follow

For C: “I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhood and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.” Marguerite Duras.

Photo from Cushman Photograph Collection.

pattern recognition

I feel a little stuck in the blog echo chamber. Lyell, Mayle, Mulberry -- my imaginary self is exhausted from trying stuff on.

Poster from the tremendous Catherine Kim.