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Because Without Value, Nothing Truly Exists

by Seraphine Khorana on May 10th, 2009
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Because Without Value, Nothing Truly Exists

Today is Mother’s Day. May you see all the grains of beauty and happiness the world has to offer.

Is money money or isn’t money money. Everybody who earns
it and spends it every day in order to live knows
that money is money, anybody who votes it to be
gathered in as taxes knows money is not money. That
is what makes everybody go crazy… When you earn
money and spend money every day anybody can know the
difference between a million and three. But when you
vote money away there really is not any difference
between a million and three.
Poem by Gertrude Stein, Money

To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
Poem by William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

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Costa Rica, Part Nine: The Beach Road

by Seraphine Khorana on January 27th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Costa Rica, Part Nine: The Beach Road

I love this uncrowded beach.
Nothing matters but the aimless rhythm of the waves, the sun,
the shells and pebbles that give character to the sand.
Has it ever been more beautiful?
It’s familiar, but never the same, like watching
my face resolve into the sea.

The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God’s foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it.
Quotation from Herman Melville, Moby Dick

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