Patrick Calder

assurance and inexpressible delight

Let the philosophers rave on about the summum bonum and mystics about embracing God. They are still vertical humans and therefore even their adorations still have something aggressive about them. Humans in the horizontal position have always struck me as less likely to be violent and destructive. So I take my place beside the poets, and less arrogant than the philosopher or mystic, am prepared to find the greatest good and embrace God whenever I hold a woman in the act of love. It is then I know with assurance and inexpressible delight that whatever it is life promises us, this must be it; and that a universe containing this experience must have something grandly important going for it.

— Irving Layton (via Katie West)

Rachel

I’ve posted a collection from my most recent photoshoot:

http://strangeday.net/shoots/rachel/

Sample:

Corn Starch

Last weekend, in recovery mode after a party of which no photos will be posted here, some friends revealed ignorance of the joys of wet corn starch. This needed to be resolved, and the next hour or so was spent playing at the dining table, and making a thoroughly satisfying mess.

Curiosity

I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious.

- Albert Einstein, (via Holly)

Meghan’s Surprise Party

Change

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting to improve the world.

- Anne Frank, (via Holly)