Friday, October 12, 2012

Anne Sexton and Her Kind




Her Kind

by Anne Sexton
I have gone out, a possessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night;
dreaming evil, I have done my hitch
over the plain houses, light by light:
lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind.
A woman like that is not a woman, quite.
I have been her kind.

I have found the warm caves in the woods,
filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves,
closets, silks, innumerable goods;
fixed the suppers for the worms and the elves:
whining, rearranging the disaligned.
A woman like that is misunderstood.
I have been her kind.

I have ridden in your cart, driver,
waved my nude arms at villages going by,
learning the last bright routes, survivor
where your flames still bite my thigh
and my ribs crack where your wheels wind.
A woman like that is not ashamed to die.
I have been her kind.

The Beauty of Lucid Dreaming on RADIOLAB on WNYC

In this podcast from Radiolab, a man confronts a bully, and frees himself from a recurring nightmare that's terrorized him for more than 20 years.

Wake Up and Dream - Radiolab

Akira Kurosawa's amazing autobiography

“Man is a genius when he is dreaming.” – Akira Kurosawa


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Cindy Gallop teaches us how to design our own jobs

Christy Lee Rogers: Underwater Baroque


This is the bio from Christy Lee Rogers site.

"Christy is a self-taught photographer from Kailua, Hawaii. Her obsession with water as a medium for breaking the conventions of contemporary photography has led to her work being compared to Baroque painting masters like Caravaggio. With an eye for the chiaroscuro qualities of light, her subjects bend and distort; bathing in darkness, isolated by light, and are brought to life by ones own imagination. Without the use of post-production manipulation, her works are made in-camera, on the spot, in water and at night. Her unrestrained joy to excite and inflame the senses, while provoking the audience with vivacious movement and purpose, demonstrates her prolific use of the photographic medium to transform reality into a world of her own."







http://www.christyrogers.com