found list i made of things to buy for next year's halloween costume

blue vintage dress
blond wig
small birds
spray paint
fake blood
feathers to leave trail

underrated things

1.) clotheslines
2.) persimmon trees
3.) ampersands
4.) petticoats
5.) rain
6.) temporary tattoos
7.) chickens
8.) dissonance
9.) binoculars

photo borrowed from here

things that take tremendous concentration

1.) feats of daring, dexterity, and skill
2.) insincerity
3.) understanding what someone is saying to you in french
4.) comprehending higher math
5.) not losing oneself in an eddy
6.) reaching a key that is just out of reach when you're locked in a jail cell and the warden is sleeping, but stirring
7.) not telling a rude customer what you really think of him or her
8.) not looking as you drive past an accident



photo found on ffffound.

soft things

smudges
leftovers
sedatives
velvet
milk
sighs
marshmallows
far-off resonant booms
cashmere
bellies
oxygen (jim's idea)



*things to take on an island with you*


a musical saw
pinafores
binoculars
the dictionary in several languages
electricity
a friend
oil rig (jim's idea)
dessert
courage


*things with centers*


targets
russian nesting dolls
conch shells
accordians
tadpoles
chocolates
spider's web
thoughts
pinwheels
absence
the middle ear


*inborn things*


perishability
pulses
evaporation
entropy
sneezes
algebra (jim's idea)
fear of falling
wonder (wonder = curiosity + doubt)
bones


*uninteresting things*


committees
home shopping network
parking lots
taxes
many other things that are not intrinsically
uninteresting, only uninteresting to me

desirable things

1.) objects of a curious and compelling pleasurableness that is hard to describe
2.) elbow length gloves
3.) architecture made of paper
4.) apothecary jars
5.) the smell of an orange being peeled
6.) gargoyle bookends
7.) japanese gardens
8.) hourglasses
9.) shells abandoned by their inhabitants
10.) canada geese flying overhead




photos from ijm studio. says its storyteller founder frank visser: “Rare combination of concentrated time and emotion form mood-boards from which new stories emerge.”

intoxicating things

1.) dissonance
2.) a hundred accordions
3.) a story within a story
4.) white truffles
5.) red poppies
6.) hives of bees
7.) eating honeycomb
8.) vulnerability
9.) a click in the absence of all other sound
10.) a fugue of the senses




photos by adam makarenko, courtesy of jerry's lovely bee blog, global swarming honeybees.

elegant things

1.) a room with only a glass of water
2.) having one's pulse taken
3.) microscopes
4.) telescopes
5.) nostalgia
6.) 'emily dickinson' written in cursive
7.) a dovecote
8.) structure of a feather vane
9.) ambivalence neutralized through language

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