“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”
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“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”
Ray Bradbury
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It’s all about loving the things in your life. Knowing how their touch fulfils your senses and not being too greedy. Don’t over indulge or fret over not having enough of anything. Beautiful things exist on this earth in abundance. Build your skill set with them. Utilise what you love to develop your talents. Be patient. Everything takes time and you know you have time. Think future, think growth, think happy. In a years time you will be more full then than you are now. Remember who you were last year? See progress. Don’t succumb to the pressures of the outside worlds demands otherwise you won’t be useful. Remain focused on carefully cultivating yours and do what you can with what you have and produce. Let great things flow from you just as the things you love have flowed from the progress of others. You can’t do for everyone just as they want, but you can give whatever you have once it’s complete. Just work to fully use what makes you happy to make you useful. And therein lies peace.
I cannot stress how important it is to have companions in your life who allow you to tell your own story as it is, no matter what the content or context of it all is, those who invite you to say what you want to say, to voice whoever you are in your entirety, hopes, dreams, fears, scars, fuck ups and falsehoods... To be able to acknowledge your experiences, good & bad, as being critical to who you are, what you may be dealing with, present & future, and also who you wish to become.
We all seem to have things to say but the ways in which we allow ourselves to say them & the ways in which that dialogue is facilitated is sooo important. It may be difficult to truly open up & express yourself, even in a climate of what seems to be over expressiveness & a constant invitation to tell a story (not necessarily your, however), to make claims about who you are, including what you want and what affects you at all times, through the internet and the constant presence of peers doing so.
But it's so so important to do so despite its hyper-visibility & at times its seeming futility and the ones who love you enough through all of that to give you genuine time and attention, that comes with a discerning ear and a heart which allows that to be useful, are even more vital to your sense of self acceptance, happiness, health & overall quality of life. I, to this day, at times might be slow to speak but I've always had a lot to say and express - and even more so now that I am recognizing, things I have so long kept to myself, that I have made personal and intimate to a point of being entirely hidden, even from myself at times, are just as important as the things I feel have to be said in order to change external circumstances...I'm ever so grateful for the ones who accept that & have come to understand me.
Naomi Campbel by Pamela Hanson _ Vogue Italia, November 1994
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As it stands I've been AWOL for a minute. Time has passed and my feet have found their way into a position beneath me once again whereby I can stand. The reason for being floored? Humanity (or lack of). Life (so fast, too often). Lessons (bareee). Learning (tiring consumption and filtering process). Growth (entirely strenuous at this point). But, now it is time to stand again and stand for something, I guess, but that something should be what exactly? I've asked myself that question long and hard for the past two years, kinda, trying to find an answer which would give me the healing element which would allow me to stand tall, and unsurprisingly to no avail. So I've dredged on. And luckily I arrived here, today is clear, full of possibility and things to be thankful for. That's more than enough to ask for. What I learned however from being down & out for so long, though, is that if, for any one reason we should stand up and live an enthusiastic, positive and kind life that truly makes us happy and is able to contribute to something else, anything, maybe even many things even, larger than ourselves, it is simply because we need it... As a race, as an interconnected whole, as inhabitants of a shared space and experience which are so often intertwined and in the habit of being largely defined by a chain of causation, we need people to be better; healthier (m’b’s), warmer to themselves and others, happier, enthusiastic, willing, critical, dedicated to the pursuit of better things for a greater good, even if that greater good is based within the individuals development. Cause there's already too many suckers making things bad for the world outside with their ulterior pursuits, why would you want to spend your life being just another one of those people who add to the bullshit. Stating the obvious, but sometimes it goes unnoticed, for those who need an intimate reminder..
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Why is diversity in books important? Diversity is not important. Diversity is reality. Human beings are not all the same. We come from many different places and have many different identities and experiences. Having only one kind of human being in the stories being told is flat-out bad storytelling. Diversity is reality. Let’s stop erasing that.
Malinda Lo, in response to a reader’s question about the importance of diversity (via bostonpoetryslam)
Title: Taos, New Mexico Artist: Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004, French) Year: 1947
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Henri Cartier-Bresson, Natchez, Missisippi USA, 1947.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Six Days in Paris series, 1957.
Alley, 1946, Chicago. Henri Cartier Bresson