“…hopefully as you transform our words, you will keep some sense of the vastness of each moment, the illusion of holding more story in your mind than you are actually capable of holding.”

~ xoxo, m

This little Kickstarter-project clock using literary quotes to relay the time is adorable. It also seems imminently doable in a DIY sense, so…. maybe go support them (?). Or make your own? Follow your own rainbow, dear Maker.

Victoria Chang

Dear Memory is Victoria Chang’s writing based on fragments of stories her mother shared reluctantly, and “the silences of her father” as an assemblage of mementos, poetry, and literary criticism in letters to family, past teachers, and fellow poets. [via NPR] **

** (obvs, note the above link is an ‘affiliate link’ & gives this site a kickback if you happen to purchase from Bookshop. Tx.)

ALERT: BadaSS Women in History

Last Tuesday was Ada Lovelace Day… hope you got in on the action & were inspired to flex your curiosity. Personally I like to make a whole week of it

THE BEAUTY OF DANCE, SEEN THROUGH THE POWER OF TOUCH

I was checking out some of the submissions for the Hackaday Prize, & saw this amazing project called KINETIC SOUL, which Shi Yun describes as a platform using computer vision to allow “the visually impaired to experience dance via kinetic feedback“. Very, very neat.

…as always, some #NewMusic

Oooh, Snarls has a new EP coming out soon:

Being human: term for a flickering possession,
existence of a happiness still undemonstrated:
is it inhuman, that a pair of eyes
turned into this small densely woven piece of lace?
Do you want them back?

You, long since vanished and finally blind–
is all your human joy here inside this thing
where your huge feelings went, as between
stem and bark, miniaturized?

Through a tear in fate, a tiny interstice,
you absented your soul from its own time;
and it is so present here in this light
section of lace, it makes me smile at “usefulness.”

And if someday all we have done
and all that has happened to us
seems so inferior and strange,
as though there’d been no point
in taking the trouble to outgrow our first pair of shoes
just to come to this — … Shouldn’t this
strip of yellowed lace, this tightly meshed
flowery border of lace suffice
to keep us here? Look: this at least got done.

A life was ignored in the process, who knows.
A delight was there, was going to be sacrificed,
and finally at any cost
there would exist this thing, not easier than life
yet finished and so lovely, as though it weren’t too soon
to smile and soar.

Rilke, Rainer Maria. The Unknown Rilke . trans Franz Wright.

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE)

Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon the Rocks,
Seeing the Shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow Rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing Madrigals.

And I will make thee beds of Roses
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of Myrtle;

A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty Lambs we pull;
Fair lined slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold;

A belt of straw and Ivy buds,
With Coral clasps and Amber studs:
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me, and be my love.

The Shepherds’ Swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May-morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me, and be my love.