BOOKS/TEA/WRITING/UKTumblr (3.0; @lensandvellum)http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/1db8420fa176b25b2cbfa4166664abf8/tumblr_mn3r4bgpvk1rnvzfwo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://amandaonwriting.tumblr.com/post/50909788089">amandaonwriting</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Bookish Words</p> </blockquote>http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/50971413431http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/50971413431Mon, 20 May 2013 22:35:34 -0700<a href="http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/49792543182/silience">The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: silience</a>: <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/49792543182/silience">dictionaryofobscuresorrows</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>n.</em> the kind of unnoticed excellence that carries on around you every day, unremarkably—the hidden talents of friends and coworkers, the fleeting solos of subway buskers, the slapdash eloquence of anonymous users, the unseen portfolios of aspiring artists—which would be renowned as masterpieces if…</p> </blockquote>http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/50594961413http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/50594961413Thu, 16 May 2013 12:51:00 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/4bf51207e0bbecd2673b58571eec9a4b/tumblr_mlj39wGydY1r8hiu2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/50559947430http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/50559947430Wed, 15 May 2013 22:38:34 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzfiziHJFV1r30iigo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/50426752133http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/50426752133Tue, 14 May 2013 09:32:23 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/6ae2f5d2b94ba717b907dff84ed83302/tumblr_mmppnfvEHV1qggwnvo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/50305489624/whats-your-greatest-struggle-right-now-fear">humansofnewyork</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>“What’s your greatest struggle right now?”<br/>“Fear of my writing. Sharing my writing, in particular.”<br/>“Will you email me something you wrote tonight?”</p> <hr><p><span><strong>“Less Fear” By Sade Johnson</strong> </span></p> <p><span>America take rest<br/></span>I was born No poet<br/>Born laces to television archaic computer lemming games<br/>Walmart target home depot banks </p> <p><span>Big man take rest<br/></span>I was born No lover<br/>Born sage-less wise cracker<br/>Abandoned lot mower for petrified native broken horn blowers</p> <p><span>Savage take rest<br/></span>I was born No tin man tight vested slave author<br/>Born on No Puritanical pilgrimage not Lord wrought No Kings vestige </p> <p><span>Youth take rest<br/></span>I was born a silver-tongued tight fisted counter daughter<br/>Fire starting ageist hippy<br/>Empty gun waving barbiturate sipping<br/>Anti- nun</p> <p><span>I take rest<br/></span>I was born No fool</p> </blockquote>http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/50390759287http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/50390759287Mon, 13 May 2013 19:21:01 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f344cc20f98815e022600a6e73b86061/tumblr_mj5f624ahV1r2ytvro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://optimistsdaughter.tumblr.com/post/44558697080/currently-reading-i-realised-today-that-i-love">optimistsdaughter</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Currently reading</p> <p>I realised today that I love Charles Dickens and my fourteen year old self is horrified and betrayed.</p> </blockquote>http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/50386546948http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/50386546948Mon, 13 May 2013 18:30:31 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a9d410ad1ca41f931145c8b5f17acd63/tumblr_mmqyqxp9E71roedt4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://colourthysoul.tumblr.com/post/50351107494/louis-edouard-fournier-the-funeral-of-shelley">colourthysoul</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Louis Édouard Fournier - The Funeral of Shelley</p> </blockquote>http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/50386497182http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/50386497182Mon, 13 May 2013 18:29:57 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/cc08505cabc4d305b9a207c95211d5b5/tumblr_mmqjdiw8fC1rz5qxqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://saveflowers1.tumblr.com/post/50336403712/art-by-r-f-babcock-1922-cover-art-from-the">saveflowers1</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Art by R.F. Babcock</strong> (1922) Cover art from the book, JOURNEYS THROUGH BOOK LAND, Volume 7.</p> <p>Source: <a href="http://www.Gutenberg.org"><a href="http://www.Gutenberg.org">www.Gutenberg.org</a></a>.</p> </blockquote>http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/50384811034http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/50384811034Mon, 13 May 2013 18:09:30 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/0238f5aa2d7cb8d1577509beddfe8a64/tumblr_mm6d6o1Pwb1qced37o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://theparisreview.tumblr.com/post/49437613906/day-jobs-of-the-poets-for-more-of-this-mornings">theparisreview</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.incidentalcomics.com/2013/04/day-jobs-of-poets.html">Day Jobs of the Poets</a><span>.</span></p> <p>For more of this morning’s roundup, <a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/05/02/unpoetic-day-jobs-and-other-news/">click here</a>.</p> </blockquote>http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/49453590651http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/49453590651Thu, 02 May 2013 12:36:14 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3ba70bb835f773459c05d2be0c18e86e/tumblr_mm5387Ijgg1qhnaq1o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Miss Prickles, 1949</p>http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/49387188736http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/49387188736Wed, 01 May 2013 14:48:07 -0700<p>I must have been British in a former life.</p>http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/49196634480http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/49196634480Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:45:43 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/2e65164cd57cb9b517380ff255b5dc51/tumblr_mm187kFbYo1qhnaq1o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/49196607687http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/49196607687Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:45:20 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/c5d9675f54f4c4531b0b2fb95cbc9165/tumblr_mm15eowVfO1rb4usuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/49196168631http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/49196168631Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:39:16 -0700“My fiftieth year had come and gone,<br/> I sat, a solitary man,<br/> In a crowded London shop,<br/> And open book and empty cup<br/> On the marble table-top.<br/> While on the shop and street I gazed<br/> My body of a sudden blazed;<br/> And twenty minutes more or less<br/> It seemed, so great my happiness,<br/> That I was blessed and could bless.”<br/><br/> - <em>William Butler Yeats</em>http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/49187811229http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/49187811229Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:21:43 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb69sfCQtc1rpp1fro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/49109669439http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/49109669439Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:28:20 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e9baefa15f2ee378275a459ca73973c6/tumblr_mkhdwp99Hs1rbi6rho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/49098430710http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/49098430710Sun, 28 Apr 2013 09:05:15 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a996729395a1ebbde6bc0a4dfb37fb6b/tumblr_mkycgqSymz1qb1hwqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/49037995251http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/49037995251Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:44:08 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/cfc51e9b37dbfef257a241278974c1f9/tumblr_mkkn89ISGu1rc46mao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://emilsinclaire.tumblr.com/post/46837715891/jo-seated-on-the-old-sofa-by-norman-rockwell">emilsinclaire</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Jo Seated on the Old Sofa by Norman Rockwell, 1937.</p> <p>(Jo March from the novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott)</p> </blockquote>http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/49037966373http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/49037966373Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:43:43 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/910ec9834035061b49bff6bdbb0d6ecb/tumblr_mlxdws7YVO1rxckzmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://souls-entwined.tumblr.com/post/49021869150/by-yatender">souls-entwined</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>(by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/xya_yax007/8167431644/">`yatender</a>)</p> </blockquote>http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/49036195099http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/49036195099Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:18:48 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6oq5p18Uf1qa3d0ro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/49026591194http://lensandvellum.tumblr.com/post/49026591194Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:04:01 -0700