Inspiration

I want to be full of curiosity.

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1. Live as well as you dare.

20 ways of surfacing from the blues – Sydney Smith's 200-year-old strategies for raising low spirits, in a letter of advice to a teenage girl.

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Fossilized silicon skeletons of single celled organisms from Tulane studies in geology and paleontology v.20 (1987). Full text here.

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SOME KINDS OF FOREVER VISIT YOU

by Brenda Hillman

The unknowns are up early;

they browse through the bronze

porch bells. Crows

call & late

apples blaze

toward western emptiness.

In your illness,

the edges hesitate;

like the revolt

of workers, they

will take a while…

Here comes the fond

mild winter; other

realms are noisy

& unanimous. You tap

the screen & dream

while waiting; four

kinds of forever

visit you today:

something, nothing,

everything & art,

greater than you are

& of your making —"

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"As Lovell looked down at the Earth in 1968, an old saying popped into his head: I hope to go to heaven when I die. Then he realized, 'I actually went to heaven when I was born.'"

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/04/trump-iran-artemis-ii-overview-effect/686721/

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"A reminder: We live on a planet where hummingbirds remember every flower they’ve visited. Where sea otters hold hands while they sleep so they don’t drift apart. Where glaciers hold pockets of air from thousands of years ago. Where some ocean water glows when you touch it. Where bumblebees fall asleep in flowers, and horses can synchronize their heart rhythms with humans’. Where some seeds won’t bloom until they’ve passed through fire."

--Sarah Jackson (with nod to Ashley Alai)

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Square-based pattern. Ornamental design for woven fabrics. 1897.

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Fat with dissatisfaction, we've grown ill

with consumption, subconscious

accents and affects swallowed whole

and it's eating

us from inside out - outside in

the soft light you'd never know though,

trimmed and filtered

to acceptably perfect/normal

how faces glaze over glaring

details of influence, reflections of every plate full

with empty counts and still

so hungry, parasites we feed like

for like, for follow

another leader, guru, expert

self-proclaimed diagnoses and cures

to fix ourselves/another

problem is how we are, essentially

starving for substance, all

choking on (mal)content.

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It is night after a long day. 

What has been done has been done;

What has not been done has not been done.

Let it be.

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"There would come a time when she couldn't go home again . . . because her parents would be gone. And when they were gone, home would be gone too."

--Lisa Scottoline, Moment of Truth