February 2011
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We Will Make Him Run.
Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball; And tear our pleasures with rough strife Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.
-Andrew Marvell (from “To his Coy Mistress).
WatchSo, Canvas is launching small groups. Here’s how.
another song I can't get over.
“3.a.m” by Gregory Alan Isokov
well its 3 a.m again, like it always seems to be drivin northbound, drivin homeward, drivin wind is drivin me and it just seems so funny that i always end up here, walkin outside in the storm while looking way up past the tree-line its been some time…
give me darkness when i’m dreaming give me moonlight when i’m leaving give me shoes that weren’t...
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Dream.
In that longer work that I’ve been mentioning I have written a lot about my grandfather. It’s been a slower process than I would have liked, but I think I’ve reached the end of telling his story specifically, though I think he is always going to be laced around the other parts. This was the ending of that section, written just yesterday morning:
“Every now and again over...
Wolf. By Billy Collins.
A wolf is reading a book of fairy tales. The moon hangs over the forest, a lamp. He is not assuming a human position, say, cross-legged against a tree, as he would in a cartoon. This is a real wolf, standing on all fours, his rich fur bristling in the night air, his head bent over the book on the ground. He does not sit down for the words would be too far away to be legible, and it is with...
“Life is a great comedy for those who think, but a great tragedy for those who...”
– Horace Walpole
WatchBased off the poem “Friday Afteroon In The Universe” by Jack Kerouac. You can hear it read in full and more clearly here: Hype Machine.
“You can hold back from the suffering of the world. You have free permission to...”
– Franz Kafka
WatchThis gives you a pretty good idea of the work that happened at the new Canvas House. All of this was accomplished by our team in a remarkably short amount of time. Everything upstairs is completely new from the wall in the middle, to the banister, to the flooring. We could not have done this without the spearheading of Mike Thompson and Andrew Michael. Interestingly enough, the place has only...