Tue 6 Sep 2016
Posted by PJ under quote of the day, sex, war
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Random quote of the day:
“In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.”
—Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave
 Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Thu 1 Sep 2016
Posted by PJ under poetry, quote of the day, voice, writing
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Random quote of the day:
“Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.”
—Adrienne Rich, What Is Found There
 Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Wed 31 Aug 2016
Posted by PJ under darkness, hope, quote of the day, stars
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Random quote of the day:
“The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.”
—Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Tue 30 Aug 2016
Posted by PJ under art, dolls, folklife, folklore
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This story isn’t exactly folklore—yet—but it should be. Maybe someday, given the way stories spread and change, it will be.
For now, this is the story of the small village of Nagoro, Japan whose population has dwindled drastically, going from 300 residents to 30. There are no children in the village anymore. It’s in the process of dying, like so many villages in Japan whose overall population is in decline.
Tsukimi Ayano saw the profound change when she returned to her village to care for her father fifteen years ago after living in Osaka for many years. Now sixty-seven, she’s one of the youngest people left in Nagoro. About ten years ago, she planted some seeds and needed a scarecrow to keep the birds away. She dressed it in her father’s clothes—with his permission—and noticed that the neighbors said hello to the doll. So she made more dolls, repopulating the village gradually, some representing people who had died as a form of remembrance, like her own grandmother, some made up from her fertile imagination. She’s repopulated the now-closed school, filling it with students and teachers, making it as she remembered it from her own youth.
She makes these dolls from joy, she says, not from loneliness or despair. They just make her happy.
The tourists have found Nagoro, and some of the neighboring villages have asked her to make scarecrows for them. Some people find them charming, some find them creepy, but such is the way of the world. Tsukimi Ayano says she will keep on making them as long as she is able to.
You can read the entire NPR story here and see more pictures of Ayano’s work.
Tue 30 Aug 2016
Posted by PJ under conscious and subconscious, mind, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“Beyond the limited circle of light bounding our conscious mind is the vast darkness of our unconscious mind….The very ground upon which consciousness stands is the unconscious mind; mental processes such as consciously directed thinking develop from the far older structures of unconscious thinking, upon which they depend.
—Stephen LaBerge, Lucid Dreaming
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Mon 29 Aug 2016
Posted by PJ under quote of the day, wishing
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Random quote of the day:
“Ships at a distance carry every man’s wish on board.”
—Zora Neale Thurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Fri 26 Aug 2016
Posted by PJ under poetry, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:
“The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.”
—Mark Strand, The Paris Review, Fall 1998, No. 148
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Thu 25 Aug 2016
Posted by PJ under ego, quote of the day, recognition, the world
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Random quote of the day:
“Many of our pains could be summed up as: problems of the unrecognized ego in an indifferent world.”
—Alain de Botton, Twitterfeed, January 14, 2012
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Wed 24 Aug 2016
Posted by PJ under aging, folly, quote of the day, youth
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Random quote of the day:
“A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.”
—Paul Gauguin, manuscript known as “Cahier pour Alineâ€
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Tue 23 Aug 2016
Posted by PJ under aging, death, quote of the day, sorrow
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Random quote of the day:
“Man weeps to think that he will die so soon. Woman, that she was born so long ago.”
—H. L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques, “The Old Subject,†#17
 Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
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