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I remembered once, in Japan, having been to see the Gold Pavilion Temple in Kyoto and being mildly surprised at quite how well it had weathered the passage of time since it was first built in the fourteenth century. I was told it hadn’t weathered well at all, and had in fact been burnt to the…

Remember this always

Jan 17, 201164 notes

“The thing that I was experiencing and dwelling on the entire time is that there are so many things that are not OK and that will never be OK again, but there’s also so many things that are OK and good that sometimes it makes you crumple over with being alive. We are allowed such an insane depth of beauty and enjoyment in this lifetime. It’s what my dad talks about sometimes. He says the only way that he knows there’s a God is that there’s so much gratuitous joy in this life. And that’s his only proof. There’s so many joys that do not assist in the propagation of the race or self-preservation. There’s no point whatsoever. They are so excessively, mind-bogglingly joy-producing that they distract from the very functions that are supposed to promote human life. They can leave you stupefied, monastic, not productive in any way, shape or form. And those joys are there and they are unflagging and they are ever-growing. And still there are these things that you will never be able to feel OK about–unbearably awful, sad, ugly, unfair things.” —Joanna Newsom, on “Cosmia” (via eeceeohh)

If she wrote a text and called it holy I’d follow

Jan 15, 201178 notes

ED DROSTE, MUSICIAN, GRIZZLY BEAR: “We’re getting married in September."

semiserious:

Gay wedding of the year alert.

This is the sound of my heart breaking

Jan 12, 20115 notes

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January 2011

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