Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don’t know and trusting them with your life. Paul Theroux, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star (via outsidemagazine)

artgym: ART WE LIKE THIS WEEK: Christain Faur’s ”Crayon Art”’ How fantastic is this? The combination of so many different colours of crayon placed together to trick the human eye, making your brain put an image together that may not actually be there….do we really see what the artist intends us to see?  Love it!

Gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; two people, of no matter what sex or age, dining in a good restaurant; six people, of no matter what sex or age, dining in a good home. M.F.K. Fisher (via sunshineandrainbows) That is suchContinue reading

psychotherapy: Currently reading, and highly recommended (especially for any artists/writers out there). Takes on, and triumphs over, the long-standing cultural myth that therapy and/or psych medications somehow hinder the creative process in individuals. It does so with essay after intelligent essay from working poets who have been in treatment of one form or another, talkingContinue reading