Author: nakedcitiesjournal

Naked Cities Journal attempts to bring together a number of passions that have captivated me over a lifetime: a love of exploring the urban landscape and its extraordinarily diverse range of places and spaces; a love of journeys both internal and external; a love of keeping writer’s notebooks; and a love of Urban Studies an intellectual discipline – Marcus D. Niski
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Nick Cave on Creativity as an Instrument of Self-Forgiveness and the Necessity of Hope in a Fragile World — Brain Pickings

In praise of “the necessary and urgent need to love life and one another, despite the casual cruelty of the world.” The world reveals itself through our engagement with it — a truth as true in the “It for Bit” sense of physics as it in the Dzogchen sense of Tibetan Buddhism. It is the…

Nick Cave on Creativity as an Instrument of Self-Forgiveness and the Necessity of Hope in a Fragile World — Brain Pickings
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Dust — cakeordeathsite

Hokusai-The Tengu Goddess, Mystical Bird 1760

For a few seconds a stray sunbeam

Makes visible the dance of dance motes

Swaying, trembling, swooning then falling

I have been granted a glimpse

Of harmony in the floating world

For the moment I am deeply content

Eyelids heavy, chin dropping towards chest

I dream of angels in a distant Heaven

Languidly embracing in the shallows

Of a limpidly becalmed pool.

Dust — cakeordeathsite
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M.C. Escher on Loneliness, Creativity, and How Rachel Carson Inspired His Art, with a Side of Bach — Brain Pickings

“A person who is lucidly aware of the miracles that surround him, who has learned to bear up under the loneliness, has made quite a bit of progress on the road to wisdom.” “If you write what you yourself sincerely think and feel and are interested in,” Rachel Carson wrote as she contemplated the loneliness…

M.C. Escher on Loneliness, Creativity, and How Rachel Carson Inspired His Art, with a Side of Bach — Brain Pickings