Love Grows - by Simon Sarris - The Map is Mostly Water

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You need blocks, animals, books, and then all other toys can just be "found" things: Fabric samples, wood offcuts, seed catalogs, buttons. Their idea of treasure is much bigger than ours. “If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four… then eight… then sixteen. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.” — John Cage Seems bad There is a pleasure serving and a pleasure in being served. Part of what makes marriage so good is that they are made of two people who constantly think about how to make the other's day (life, world) a little better. Much delight in this cycle. In the Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce defines marriage as “An arrangement consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves--making, in total, two”. There is a pleasure serving and a pleasure in being served. Part of what makes marriage so good is that they are made of two people who constantly think about how to make the other's day (life, world) a little better. Much delight in this cycle. F.

The world is covered with a thin film of inertia. Maybe it is created by entropy, or human nature, or a magic yet-understood, or all three. Divine beings pierce it effortlessly, Let there be light is a powerful command. We can pierce this inertia too, with a little effort. In fact it seems like the more difficult part is recognizing it at all. And when we look the other way, it regrows. ~ ~ ~ There is an unseriousness about love that permeates a lot of modern media. We must all feed, however meekly, on the art around us, so this unseriousness transfers into the attitudes of people. This…

Love Grows - by Simon Sarris - The Map is Mostly Water

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