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…I’ve thought a lot lately about how all the things we take for solid, ever-present forms are, in fact, crumbling or absolutely changing. The overriding sense I get is that we ought to slow down, slow down. No one is going to survive forever, but we’re all going to make it through. Get that? There was a kid I knew as a child who died unexpectedly on the bus one day like all the other days. We were in elementary school. I remember trying to reconcile his disappearance from this planet w/some innate sense of fairness, & failing. But, looking back now, I see he made it through. He made it through the same way I’m going to make it through, my grandfather’s going to make it through & all of our triumphant & tragic stories will make it through. So slow down. None survive, but we all make it through.

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Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others? That’s who we are! We’re not who we say we are, we’re not who we want to be – we are the sum of the influence and impact that we have, in our lives, on others.

Carl Sagan

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John F. Carlson, Brooding Silence, n.d., oil on canvas mounted on fiberglass, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Henry Ward Ranger through the National Academy of Design

-Can, Intern

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It was all unknown to me then...Everything except the fact that I didn’t have to know. That it was enough to trust that what I’d done was true. To understand its meaning without yet being able to say precisely what it was...To believe that I didn’t need to reach with my bare hands anymore. To know that seeing the fish beneath the surface of the water was enough. That it was everything.

Excerpt From: Strayed, Cheryl. “Wild.”

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Joy

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Working in a hammock: in theory yes, in practice no.

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The vast majority of advice you’ll be given in your life will be one of two types: Either ‘Do what I did’ or ‘Do what’s best for me right now.’ Make sure you take the time to identify if either is the case before taking the advice at face value.

A Simple Test That Will Help You Tell if You’re Getting Bad Advice (via khuyi)

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It'll Be Better - Francis and the Lights

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Even though I know bad fence building is in my blood (my 5th great-grandfather was an indifferent fence builder)

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and this little project has been a five month project

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This is what my face looks like when my son says,

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It's good! Like, not as good as if you paid someone to do it but it's better than most women could do...and probably better than like 50% of men.

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Bob Dylan, “Mississippi,” (Time Out of Mind outtake) from Tell Tale Signs [2008]

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Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled. So wild flowers will come up Where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender.

Jelauddin Rumi