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The desert that day looked like a nasty case of prickly heat caught in a long, naked wince.
Barbara Kingsolver Time is of the essence. The essence of thyme. That humanity is ravaged during springtime. Sadness and confusion against rebirth, growth, green, beauty. To the kind of person who will always be okay. I’ll probably get homesick, I love you, goodnight. Man I miss my friends, I miss playing music with my friends, and I’m sad that there’s another thing causing people pain and death and sacrifice. But I’m also proud to see glimpses of what we can do as a world when we’re asked to unite. I’m excited to see that the individual matters, that our choices can directly affect others lives. The world is remembering that the people who really make shit happen are health workers, grocery clerks, farmers, delivery drivers, teachers. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// NOTHING MATTERS: a reminder To reread your own writing and have doubts cast upon what you once believed airtight. Ah! the times. Ah! the folks.
Sunburned in the name of democracy! Feeling the sunbern! ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Winter
CRUNCHING SNOW-- COWARDS PENNING CODES IN THE WHITE FROSTED GLASS, FINGER-DRAWN IN FOG PROVOKED BY BREATH. MELTING SNOW-- GATHERED THROUGH MORNINGS AMIDST ANOTHER CHILD’S DELUSIONS OF ORIGINAL THOUGHT. BEAUTIFUL DELUSIONS! ONLY REVEALED WHEN WE ARE TOO WEARIED TO NOTICE. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Breaking your tooth while chewing something unremarkable. Pizza crusts, grapes. The man riding is bike on the sidewalk who almost hit us today. Then gave us the finger when we called him out. Exert yourdamself! Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond. Sri Ramakrishna (noted) Taking myself too seriously again. Always tempted to drive up onto the backs of car transport trucks. Portapotty company calling itself “environmental services” gimme a breaaaak Are we all on the same page regarding how awful the Black Eyed Peas’ music is? I’m impressed. It all sounds like a joke and yet I think it’s not? Great stuff. To the dude wearing a gloves and a mask over his mouth and nose while jaywalking a busy intersection and looking at his phone: I think you gotta pick one of those things at a time for logic’s sake.
Robbie Robertson talking about how brutal it was to be on the road with The Band for 16 years. Basically what ended them. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// My Generation? To be sick of rich people but also be hippies? To be sick of rich people but want to be a rich person? To be sick of hippies but currently be a hippie? ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// I just... I couldn’t bear the part where guy fell out of love with me, I tell the guy who smiled at me on the subway. Telepathically. But he hears me. Now he’s playing some game on his phone, not looking at me at all. Jenny Offill ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// I’ve noticed that I always root for the people in love in stories. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// When contemporary art perfectly treads the line of brilliant and bullshit.
Maybe The Beach Boys have got you now. With those waves singing Caroline. Rolling down that empty ocean road Getting to the surf on time. Neil ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// The tiny street in Malibu called Piedras Chicas From the book I’m reading by Jenny Offill:
Q: what is the philosophy of late capitalism? A: two hikers see a hungry bear on the trail ahead of them. One of them takes out his running shoes and puts them on. “You can’t outrun a bear” the other says. “I just have to outrun you,” he says. tiny thai knees celebrity voicemails: this is demi lovato, please dame lo mano Hang ups, let downs, bad breaks, set backs. Marvin Gaye
If you make art that makes people curious, they will lean in. Moby Getting a 7 year old to appreciate that something being hard only means that they’re gonna grow from it. Getting yourself to appreciate some of the very lessons you’re trying to impart on a 7 year old.
Attempting to Pursue the Nursery The richest 200 people in the world own more wealth than the poorest 3 billion If a mans imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon such fantasies of the supernatural. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves, and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him further loss of the ancient dream. Abbey Maximum 70s Vibes: Flutes and Congas |