JOURNAL

literaryjukebox:

The compensation of growing old [is] that the passions remain as strong as ever, but one has gained—at last!—the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence,—the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it around, slowly, in the light.

Virginia Woolf in Mrs. Dalloway

Song: “Mosaic” by Patti Smith

Jane Dorn
Exquisite human specimen

Exquisite human specimen

Jane Dorn
losetheboyfriend:

Janis Joplin cutting her hit single “Piece of My Heart”; captured by Daniel Kramer (1968)

losetheboyfriend:

Janis Joplin cutting her hit single “Piece of My Heart”; captured by Daniel Kramer (1968)

Jane Dorn
The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.

Ernest Hemingway, from A Farewell to Arms

(Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929)

Jane Dorn
…and sometimes a dear, funny friend sends the perfect text: 

"While waiting on a snake to cross the trail this am we visited with Walter.  His teenage owner thought Walter needed eyebrows so she drew some on him."  

…and sometimes a dear, funny friend sends the perfect text:

"While waiting on a snake to cross the trail this am we visited with Walter.  His teenage owner thought Walter needed eyebrows so she drew some on him."