Book Love from PBS via the Great American Read
On display at the Penrose Library, Whitman College
Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.
Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Colum McCann has an old-school belief in the capabilities of literature. Even as au courant novelists all around him grow skeptical of the artifices of character and plot, and embrace the self as the fiction writer’s only truly accessible subject, McCann’s work continues to assert that nothing human is alien to him, that the empathetic imagination can and should go where it pleases.
And all your future lies beneath your hat.
John Oldham, 17th century poet (via pointfrance)
You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.
A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke.
Van Gogh Documentary To Be First Fully Painted Feature Film Ever Made
The film will incorporate over 120 of van Gogh’s paintings, animated and brought to life.
Normality is a paved road; it’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.
Today we wish a happy birthday to Vincent van Gogh, the incomparable post-Impressionist whose evocative and vivid works are among the most beloved in the world.
“Sunflowers,” 1888–9, by Vincent van Gogh
Celebrate National Poetry Month!
This video was created via the Community Word Project.
“Community-Word Project is a New York City based 501©(3) arts-in-education organization that inspires children in underserved communities to read, interpret and respond to their world and to become active citizens through collaborative arts residencies and teacher training programs.” To learn more, visit http://communitywordproject.org