10's, Week 10

10 "Verbal Photographs":

• A brown horse laying in the sun like a dog in a fenced-in field.
  
• A plump, brown squirrel hunched over on a brick gate, chewing a peanut open with his mouth.
  
• An ominous, gray curtain of clouds hovering over I-94.
  
• Orange plates of fish wrapped in round, seaweed-rice packages revolve on a metal conveyor.
  
• A group of students gathered on the Diag in Ann Arbor, clapping and cheering as the major speaks.
  
• A collection of tween girls on either side of the neighborhood street with colorful balloons in hand, nothing but the wet cement between them.
  
• A silver pot of water rolling with green and white and orange vegetables.
  
• Two pounds of milk chocolate, packaged and shaped like a friendly bunny.
  
• Ghosts of outfits lie on the bedroom carpet like war casualties.
  
• A stack of folded papers in a wire cage, each the same as its neighbor below.
  

10 "Treasures":

• "Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is." --Carl Jung on "The Shadow"
  
• "Where we live, the skies are heavy with sleep. Sometimes high-flying jets come down encrusted with it, like bees dusted with pollen." --Stacy Levine, "Sleep" from My Horse and Other Stories
• "The best art and writing is almost like an assignment; it is so vibrant that you feel compelled to make something in response." --from Learningtoloveyoumore.com
• "For a brief moment it seems wonderfully easy to live and love and create breathtaking things..in the same way that the ocean gives the assignment of breathing deeply, and kissing instructs us to stop thinking." --from Learningtoloveyoumore.com
  
• "Don't look back, all you'll ever get is the dust from the steps before." --Zooey Deschanel (of She & Him), lyrics to "Don't Look Back"
  
• "Well alright, it's ok, we all get the slip sometimes everyday. I'll just keep it to myself in the sun." --Zooey Deschanel (of She & Him), lyrics to "In the Sun"
  
• "Sunshine, we all see the same sky. Looking, learning, asking the same why?" --Belle & Sebastian, lyrics from "Song for Sunshine"
  
• "Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant." --from Posterous.com
  
• "If anyone's curious what I look like with a beard, it's this ?:^(0) Coincidentally, that's also my ATM pin number." --Conan O'Brien, from his Twitter
  
• "America likes stuff that's familiar #healthcareforeveryoneisscarycauseitsnew." --Sarah Silverman, from her Twitter