Justin

campaigning, life, love, music, odds and ends

[justinwoolford]

It's Mental Health Awareness Week! Let's tackle stress and improve the UK's mental health. thndr.me/9D8Uts http://thndr.me/9D8Uts

[mucksblues]

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[npr]

First Listen: David Byrne, 'American Utopia'

David Byrne's first solo album since 2004 is a brilliantly brainy attempt to make some sense of this inexplicable, mind-bending world.

[chaboneo]

[dailyrothko]

[dailyrothko]

Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1960

[earthlingmag-blog]

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Jane Goodall (via goldandmaiden)

[life]

John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States 57 years ago today on Jan. 20, 1961. He is pictured here at his inaugural ball with his wife Jackie Kennedy. (Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #JFK

[mutt-r]

“Despite all the amputations, you could dance to a rock n’ roll station.”

(Lou Reed)

[mucksblues]

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[dailyrothko]

Daily Rothko Bonus

Mark Rothko in his First Avenue Studio, New York City

[base-and-superstructure]

Wealthy Bristol residents cause outrage by installing 'anti-bird spikes' to stop droppings hitting expensive cars

Wealthy residents have attached ‘anti-bird spikes’ to trees in a bid to protect their expensive cars from droppings, outraging environmentalists. The spikes – which are generally used to stop birds resting and building nests on ledges and nooks on buildings – were nailed to two trees in an exclusive part of Bristol.

The trees, located in the front gardens of privately owned flats in the Clifton area of the city, have been described by a local Green Party councillor as “literally uninhabitable to birds.”

One resident, who asked to remain anonymous, confirmed the spikes were “solely to to protect cars”, which include a number of expensive BMWs and Audis, from bird droppings.

They said: “The spikes are solely to protect the cars, there is no other reason.”

On the surface this seems like a bizarre example of man vs nature, but I think it’s stories like this that really highlight how separated our society has become from nature. In our capitalist modernity, nature and natural resources are commodities that must be bought, sold, exploited, and after that, in cities especially, often only experienced in a prepackaged, sanitised, controlled form. 

Nature becomes more and more distant and unfamiliar, so that when we’re confronted with it, it’s an alien world, and rendering trees uninhabitable to birds seems like a reasonable course of action to protect a sports car.

[justinwoolford]

It's Mental Health Awareness Week! Too few of us are thriving. We need to change that #MHAW17 http://thndr.me/ENE4em

[humanitykreated-blog]

Pro tip! Switch to water filters and non-plastic reusable water bottles. This will prevent the dumb amount of water waste used to create a plastic bottle, and we’ll end up with way less plastic in our landfills/oceans! Trust me you’ll love it!

[myfairynuffstuff]

John Whitlock Codner (1913 - 2008) - Brandon Hill, Bristol. Oil on board.

[foreverneilyoung]

Happy 71st birthday Neil!

“I’m the same as I was. I still do see the vista. I feel good. That’s my way of knowing that I can still continue. There’s no reason to not continue, because I can still see where I’m going. Can’t see it clearly, but I know it’s out there.”

[pagewoman]

Red Squirrel, Northumberland, England

[theemotionmachine]

Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment.

Martin Seligman (via theemotionmachine)