Daily Create: @ Moments That Might Be Silent

scifisweetheart:

First part of Blake Leads a Walk on the Milky Way.  My favorite from a well-loved book.

“I haven’t a clue how my story will end. But that’s all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, you don’t conclude that the road has vanished. And how else could we discover the stars?”

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Nancy Willard

(via sapphireblues)

Great quote!

u-mspcoll:

Writer and artist Nancy Willard often creates fantastical figurines which inspire her as she works, but in this case she used this figure in her book of photographs An Alphabet of Angels, 1994.  This handsome fellow is the Angel of Vegetables.  (Gotta love those red boots!)

From the Nancy Willard Archive, Special Collections Library, University of Michigan

As a doll collector, I covet these!

“Somewhere clouds crossed the peaked
and rumpled sea and carried
the rain in their cheeks like light”

- Nancy Willard, Cold Water (via absenceoffield)

Perfect!

“It is time to turn on the moon.
It is time to live by a different light.”

- Nancy Willard (via chelseyphilpot)

I love this quote!

“

Start with a tree,
an old willow with its feet in the water,
and one low branch to let you in
and a higher branch to let you
upstairs,
and a lookout branch to show
how far you’ve come
(the lake before you,
the woods at your back),

and now you are close
to those who live in these rooms
without walls, without doors:
one nuthatch typing its way up the bark,
two mourning doves calling the sun out of darkness,
three blackbirds folding their wings tipped with sunset,
twelve crows threading the air and stitching
a cape that whirls them away
through the empty sky,

and don’t forget the blue heron
stalking the shallows for bluegills,
and don’t forget the otter backpaddling past you,
and the turtles perched on the log like shoes
lined up each night in a large family,

and don’t forget the owl
who has watched over you
since you were born.

Be the housekeeper of trees,
who have nothing to keep
except silence.

”

- Nancy Willard, “Tree House” (via factplusfiction)

I’m becoming a Nancy Willard fan!

“We aren’t made of atoms, Ellen. We’re made of stories.”

- Nancy Willard, Sister Water (via ellenkushner)

I love this great quote by Nancy Willard!

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