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

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