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The Eye of God

Kimberly Forman sent this to our community group. It a photo from the Hubble telecsope. NASA calls it "The Eye of God."



jungle. inspired by the not so jungle-like silk tree in my bedroom.

mastery out of despair

i've been reading about the troubled life of vincent van gogh, mainly during the time of his mental breakdown and stay at the saint remy asylum. i was telling some friends about it last night, how when he arrived he became particularly obsessed with a cypress tree on the remy grounds. van gogh writes about the tree in a letter to his brother that i find incredibly insightful and beautiful:


"The tree is as beautiful of line and proportion as an Egyptian obelisk. And the green has a quality of such distinction. It is a splash of black in a sunny landscape, but it is one of the most interesting black notes, and the most difficult to hit off exactly that I can imagine...now the nearest tree is an enormous trunk... but one side branch shoots up very high and lets fall an avalanche of dark green pine needle. This somber giant-- like a defeated proud man-- contrasts, when considered in the nature of a living creature, with the pale smile of a last rose on the fading bush in front of him. Underneath the trees, empty stone benched, sullen box trees; the sky is mirrored-- yellow-- in a puddle left by the rain. A sunbeam, the last ray of daylight, raises the somber ocher almost to orange. Here and there small figures wander around among the tree trunks." from the World of Van Gogh by Robert Wallace

wwsd?

i think this is funny:

lists

new for mcsweeney's: lists.


i woke up this morning with snow on my car. have a wonderful weekend everyone.

darlin settle down

my friend adam argo's newest.


kick up your spanish boots!

fayetteville


every now and then i'm reminded of how much i love fayetteville. i was chatting with some friends last thursday about it. they recently moved here from norman, OK, and i was inquiring how their transistion into the thriving big-townopolis of fayetteville was going. one of my friends mentioned something funny, that fayetteville is a town where you have to know where cool places are; one can't just know without going. that statement seemed slightly yogi berra-ish, but regardless, it made me remember that i love this town. i love the diverse people. i love the places. i love the hills. i love that its the best town in NWA. i love it here.

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