Mon 5 Apr 2021

Canary

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Random quote of the day:

“I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. This theory says that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are super-sensitive. They keel over like canaries in poison coal mines long before more robust types realize that there is any danger whatsoever.”

—Kurt Vonnegut, Chicago Tribune Magazine, June 22, 1969

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Sat 3 Apr 2021

Instagram stores – Student

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The best: she was so excited to be at the Big U, to be learning new things and adding to her base of knowledge, to be exploring and trying on new ideas. Knowledge excited her and pursuing her literary and artistic ambitions set her mind on fire. The worst: she worked nearly full-time to put herself through school. Her instinct was to avoid student loans and her parents couldn’t afford to help, other than to offer room and board. She had almost no spare time for anything but study. She thought herself deprived because she missed out on the whole “party” aspect of college. After graduating with a degree in English Lit. there were not many employment opportunities so she grabbed what she could get: a job was a clerk. She did catch up on her partying then. But after a while she thought it was time to stop messing about, to stop pursuing the dead-end and money-scarce goal of making art. She wanted to make money, to be somebody, maybe go back to school for her MBA. A small bout of cancer scotched those plans. She came out the other side of that experience realizing that she really had been someone all along. She was an artist. That was what made her happy. Life, she concluded, was way the hell too short to be pursuing goals that didn’t make her happy. She never regretted that decision.

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Thu 1 Apr 2021

Compassion

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Random quote of the day:

“The heart opens and closes, and there may be times, very sensibly, when you need to back off and protect yourself…You have to include yourself in compassion, not just everybody else.” 

—Jack Kornfeld, The Lion’s Roar, October 15, 2017

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Wed 31 Mar 2021

Soul

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Random quote of the day:

“You will not find the boundaries of soul by travelling in any direction, so deep is the measure of it.”

—Heraclitus, Fragment 45 (tr. John Burnet)

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Tue 30 Mar 2021

Audre

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Random quote of the day:

“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.”

―Audre Lorde, “Learning from the 60s,” address for the Malcolm X weekend, February 1982, Harvard University

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Mon 29 Mar 2021

Time

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Random quote of the day:

“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.”

—Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths

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Wed 24 Mar 2021

Heart

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Random quote of the day:

“If our heart were large enough to love life in all its detail, we would see that every instant is at once a giver and a plunderer.”

—Gaston Bachelard, The Intuition of the Instant

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Tue 23 Mar 2021

Thin Places #1

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Merlin’s Cave, Tintagel, Cornwall, Spring 2004

The village of Tintagel from Tintagel Castle, Spring 2004

 

9th c. monk cells, Tintagel Castle, Spring 2004

Tintagel: The thing is, if you go to the village it’s full of King Arthur tat and rather crass about it. But if you climb up to the island itself (and in 2004 you had no alternative but to climb an enormous staircase to get there) it’s a pretty magical place. Maybe it was endorphins from the climb, but I found it exhilarating. And after all, thin places are always a personal thing. You can’t find them for anyone else and no one else can find them for you. They exist solely between you and the landscape.

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Tue 23 Mar 2021

Society

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Random quote of the day:

“Our work should be a reflection of society, and if you’re not concerned with including all of society, then I don’t really know what you’re doing making art in the first place.”

—Sasheer Zamata, The Hollywood Reporter, 2/23/2016

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Mon 22 Mar 2021

Flow

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Random quote of the day:

“It is the insertion of man with his limited life span that transforms the continuously flowing stream of sheer change…into time as we know it.”

—Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind

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