calls from home

from the good folks at Thousand Kites,
via Paula D:

Dear Friends,

We are asking you to take a minute to call in a message to the 2.3 million people who are behind bars this holiday season.

It's easy. Call our toll-free line at 877-518-0606 anytime from now until December 7th.

An answering machine will record your message. Your call will broadcast on over 200 radio stations across the country. Don't worry if you mess up because we will edit the calls.

This is the 10th year for "Calls From Home," a program that connects family members to their loved ones in prison and educates the public about the criminal justice system. Hundreds of family members, former prisoners, staff, and citizens call in songs, poems, and messages of hope.

For more information, visit www.callsfromhome.org

i like this drawing

Peter Doig, Camp Forestia 1996. Pastel on paper, 7 7/8 x 9 1/2" (20 x 24.1 cm)

Mindfulness

December Named "National Awareness Month"

"This December we're asking that all Americans stop whatever it is they're doing, and take a moment to open their eyes for once — just once — in their lives. It'll make all the difference in the world." — The Onion

Buy Nothing Day!

Gonna lay down my heavy load, down by the riverside,
down by the riverside,
down by the riverside. (repeat)
and i ain't gonna study war no more...

i ain't gonna study that war no more,
i ain't gonna study that war no more,
i ain't gonna study war no more.

(e's take)

Gratitude – is not the mention
Of a Tenderness,
But its still appreciation
Out of Plumb of Speech.

When the Sea return no Answer
By the Line and Lead
Proves it there’s no Sea, or rather
A remoter Bed?

Emily Dickinson

bulgaria, summer

bird

I will now resist employing every superlative in my entire diction to recommend watching this.

BIRD film from Andrew Zuckerman Studio on Vimeo.

let me tell you about my boat...

more....

leafy

thanks christoph niemann !

grocery lists i found on the floor,