Cardbored

"Inside a big cardboard box, a child is transported to a world of his or her own,

one where anything is possible."

-- "Cardboard Box," toyhalloffame.org

Self portrait 12-12-13

"The best birthday present is an empty box. 

Smile, it contains all my love for you."

-- Jarod Kintz, 

My love can only occupy one person at a time

"'I'm bored' is a useless thing to say.

I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

Even the inside of your own mind is endless;

it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand?

The fact that you're alive is amazing, so you don't get to say 'I'm bored.'"

-- Louis C.K.

"I could party in a cardboard box with people who are funny and don't care."

-- Ke$ha

Horror vacui

"For your birthday, I got you a box.

Hooray! It's empty, so you can

fill it with whatever you want."

-- Jarod Kintz, 

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

Self portrait 12-2-13

"They gave Pandora a box.

Prometheus begged her not to open it.

She opened it.

Every evil to which human flesh is heir came out of it.

The last thing to come out of the box was hope. 

It flew away."

-- Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

"The human life cycle ... evolves around the box;

from the open-topped box called a bassinet,

to the pine box we call a coffin ...

It should not surprise us then that the lowly box 

plays such a significant role in the first Christmas story.

For Christmas began in a humble, hay-filled box of splintered wood.

The Magi ... laid treasure-filled boxes at the feet of that holy child.

And in the end ... the Lord of Christmas was laid down in a box of stone.

How fitting that each Christmas season brightly wrapped boxes 

skirt the pine boughs of Christmas trees around the world."

-- Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Box

Someone gave us a huge basket filled with many boxes of a bunch of different chocolates.

This box with the little peep-through window was full of chocolate-covered pretzels with sprinkles.

The boys ate all the pretzels.

So, the box was empty.

And you know how nature abhors a void.

(That's horror vacui to you Latin-speaking folks and Aristotelians.)

Some say that human nature abhors a void, too.

People will do lots of extreme, and dangerous, and crazy things to fill their void.

I do this. 

Hip to be square

 "The thing about boxes," I said, "is that you can open them up.

Even though they're completely boring on the outside, 

there might be something interesting inside."

-- Dan Wells, I am Not A Serial Killer

Self portrait 9-8-13

"The thoughts you loved to think about, 

the memories you wanted to hold up to the light

and view from every angle --

it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, 

far from the light of day and throw away the key.

It's not an act of bitterness.

It's an act of self-preservation.

It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window 

and look out at life instead, is it?"

-- Ally Condie, First Day

"Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift."

-- Mary Oliver 

"Life in a box was unbearable

How did humans stand it?"

-- Patrick Jennings, We Can't All Be Rattlesnakes

Nobody puts Baby in a corner

 "We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, 

think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, 

you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, 

everything is about getting boxed in."

-- Brit Marling

Wood mannequin with cutout face and hair 5-19-13

 
 "The way they boxed us in here. 

Bricks and windows, windows and bricks."

-- Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

Wood mannequin with cutout face 5-19-13

 

"Nobody puts Baby in a corner."

-- Johnny, Dirty Dancing