#356: Old man’s beard
‘Now I know the difference between a father’s rough beard and a young man’s untried bristles.’ – Steven Chopade
Category: The Other Livvy
#355: Cello
‘If God had designed the orchestra, then the cello was His greatest accomplishment.’ – Rick Moody, Hotels of North America
#354: Respiratory angel (2015)
‘My lungs sucked at being lungs.’ – John Green, The Fault in Our Stars On the respiratory ward at my hospital last year. Bad lungs repurposed as wings!
#353: Industrial morning
‘By means of industry and perseverance you will rise higher and higher.’ – Robert Schumann
#352: Glitter
‘All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.’ – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
#351: Bird ornament
‘How can one deceive these dear little birds, when they look at one so sweetly and confidingly? I call them birds because there is nothing in the world better than birds!’ – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
#350: Fog
‘I admire the fog, how it fades into itself.’ – Marty Rubin
#349: Snowman
‘I want curves – curves are happy like a snowman’ – John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
#348: Festive fire
‘It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.’- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
#347: Discarded
‘So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.’ – Wayne Gerard Trotman