controversial stranger
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photo by Kelly Anne Masigat
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P.S. The last time I saw you, you were certainly one of the nicest people I had ever seen. Now I hear that you are learning to dance. That makes you just about perfect.
Letter from Kurt Vonnegut to his Daughter Nanette Vonnegut, 1965
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By Wendell Berry
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apis & palmoxylon
ink on petrified palm wood. fossil is an extinct genus found along the gulf coast. fossil record indicates apis has been around for about 56 million years.
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today the sun will appear to stand still as it hovers at it’s highest point as seen from the northern hemisphere.
and from this place, the sun will formally introduce summer. this introduction comes with a gentle reminder that these longer days will not last forever and from this place, minute by minute, the days will slowly wane until they are no longer apparent. then, as if the sun knows how hardening and consuming darkness can be for our spirit, it will appear from the opposite side. from this new place, the sun will formally introduce winter, but not without a gentle reminder that these dark days will not last forever. from this, the days will swell slowly until they are no longer distinguishable. then, as if the sun knows how hardening and consuming light can be for our spirit, it will appear again, bringing with it another reminder, that these bright days will not last forever.
I believe the sun will continue to do this until we no longer need reminding.
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boardroom landscape 2
boardroom landscape 3
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People from a planet without flowers would think
we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
~Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers, and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort, and advancing on Chaos and the Dark.
Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Puerto Vallarta, mexico 2010
Puerto Vallarta, mexico 2012
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Sayulita Mexico, 2010
Sayulita, Mexico 2012
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History Repeating #1
sayulita, mexico 2012
sayulita, mexico 2010
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The girl goes dancing there
On the leaf-sown, new-mown, smooth
Grass plot of the garden;
Escaped from bitter youth,
Escaped out of her crowd,
Or out of her black cloud.
Ah, dancer, ah, sweet dancer!
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If strange men come from the house
To lead her away, do not say
That she is happy being crazy;
Lead them gently astray;
Let her finish her dance,
Let her finish her dance.
Ah, dancer, ah, sweet dancer!
Every morning
the world
is created.
Under the orange
sticks of the sun
the heaped
ashes of the night
turn into leaves again
and fasten themselves to the high branches —
and the ponds appear
like black cloth
on which are painted islands
of summer lilies.
If it is your nature
to be happy
you will swim away along the soft trails
for hours, your imagination
alighting everywhere.
And if your spirit
carries within it
the thorn
that is heavier than lead —
if it’s all you can do
to keep on trudging —
there is still
somewhere deep within you
a beast shouting that the earth
is exactly what it wanted —
each pond with its blazing lilies
is a prayer heard and answered
lavishly,
every morning,
whether or not
you have ever dared to be happy,
whether or not
you have ever dared to pray.
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