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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
we're not kids anymore.
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I hope you will find the cracks in the world and wedge them wider, so the light of other suns shines through; I hope you will keep the world unruly, messy, full of strange magics; I hope you will run through every open Door and tell stories when you return.
Alix E. Harrow, The 10,000 Doors of January
Cool photo of desert art + cool quote from a book, completely unrelated: "I confess I don't entirely know what's meaningful to you. I fall back on assumptions: seeds and grass, growing things. It verges on stereotype. And when you write me, you write in furnace and in flame. You ask about hunger." - Red, This is How You Lose the Time War https://www.instagram.com/p/CV-0FI9L9dX/?utm_medium=tumblr
A perk of my current role is the opportunity to co-host a podcast with one of my amazing marketing colleagues. Of course the bigger perk is the opportunity to connect with our company's clients during some of the episode interviews.
This client certainly delivered. Tom is not only founder and CEO of Rise Southern Biscuits and Righteous Chicken, he's also a military veteran and a CIA‐trained chef. Give the episode a listen to hear how Tom and his team are leading the pack with tech and menu innovations at Rise.
Weekend trip to Bham! (at Birmingham, Alabama) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMadgyXhSJv/?igshid=c66v6x8ug9mw
Rolling with my lady loves! @kidaacat we were channeling you and your groovy skates, but maybe with less skill, haha (at Grant Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLkgN68BVhd/?igshid=gdo0bmqnt037
"When the Grand Canyon is plan B, it's a pretty good day." - @mr.gregmitchell (at Grand Canyon North Rim, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/CG06XoDBhrM/?igshid=lxjdak2z6jwf
Zion!! Positively enamoured. (at Zion National Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGwCgC3BR0x/?igshid=nmbjuko2twiw
Cloudy Hike
Dancing skies
skin in rolling ridges
contracted, prickly into attention
ATTENTION!
attention world,
world pulsing with calm
and your feet roots stretch, twist, connect.
Fire leaves exhale strength into
screen-blurred minds the on/off switch
is here.
Where the city, history, growth and death collide. Forever I love Atlanta.
You are so young; you stand before beginnings. I would like to beg of you, dear friend, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even knowing it, find yourself experiencing the answer some distant day. Perhaps you are indeed carrying within yourself the potential to visualize, to design and to create for yourself an utterly satisfying, joyful and pure lifestyle. Discipline yourself to attain it, but accept that which comes to you with deep trust, and as long as it comes from your own will, from your own inner need, accept it, and do not hate anything.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
I read a few different articles about this hike before trying it out. It’s short and pretty easy, and the falls are gorgeous. One thing I must have missed in the articles is you essentially have to off road for 45 minutes to get to the trail head. Definitely not a drive I recommend for two-wheel drive or small vehicles. Perfect way to spend a fall day!
We’re not going to bury the lead here: Bob Ross’ hair was actually straight. Just ask his longtime business partner Annette Kowalski, who knew Ross better than anyone — he had just gotten out of the Air Force, and was unsuccessfully trying to make a living as a painter, she says.
“He got this bright idea that he could save money on haircuts. So he let his hair grow, he got a perm, and decided he would never need a haircut again,” Kowalski explains.
Before he could change it back, though, the perm became his company’s logo — Ross hated it. “He could never, ever, ever change his hair, and he was so mad about that,” Kowalski says. “He got tired of that curly hair.”
But viewers never got tired of Ross or his show The Joy of Painting. With his soft, hypnotic voice, he’d bring his viewers in close as he created 30-minute masterpieces — distant mountain ranges, seascapes, forest scenes, always with those happy little trees. He’d sling his palette around, blend the titanium white paint, whisper about his life in Alaska, then gently tap his fan brush to create a canvas full of fluffy clouds. With his partly unbuttoned chambray shirt, his halo of tight curls and his soothing demeanor, Ross was a fixture on PBS.
Re-watching the show decades later — it’s now streaming on Netflix — The Joy of Painting still feels like a personal art lesson. And yet the oil painter we spent so many hours with remains a mystery. Ross led a private life and did only a few interviews during his career.
The Real Bob Ross: Meet The Meticulous Artist Behind Those Happy Trees
Photos: Bob Ross Inc.
This is fantastic. Who knew Bob Ross’s hair was straight all along?
I’m only three chapters in and this is already one of the most insightful commentaries on war I’ve ever encountered. Definitely worth a read if you haven’t already explored Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried. Here’s a favorite quote from the first 58 pages: “I survived, but it’s not a happy ending. I was a coward. I went to war.”
A variety of factors seem to be continuing to harm bee colonies.
Beekeepers lost nearly half their colonies in the past year. Why should you care? “One in every three bites we eat is directly or indirectly pollinated by bees,” says Dennis VanEngelsdorp, project director and an entomologist at the University of Maryland.
Be in love with your life - every minute of it.
Jack Kerouac
Editor’s note: In the wake of terrorist attacks around the world, many Muslims feel called upon to publicly defend their faith, a faith many say is not accurately reflected in the stated or assumed motivations behind such attacks. Writer Beenish Ahmed has struggled with this responsibility all her life and shared her thoughts in this essay published by Code Switch as news was unfolding of the attacks in Brussels.
“Last week,” says Ahmed, “I messaged my cousins to make sure they were OK after a car-bombing in Peshawar. This week, I woke to news about a bombing in Brussels where my brother lives and immediately, frantically, contacted him.” Her brother was unharmed, but Ahmed’s essay has gained new poignancy as the conversation about the burdens of representation for Muslims around the globe continues. — Tasneem Raja, senior digital editor, NPR’s Code Switch
I remember attending Sunday school class one morning at my hometown mosque, sitting at a tiny school desk in a little yellow chair. The teacher said we were ambassadors for Islam, and to behave in a way that made others look favorably upon our faith and upon Muslims everywhere. But I was just 10 years old, 12 at the most. How could I be an ambassador for anything? I shifted in the hard plastic seat that I would soon outgrow.
It’s decades later, and the top Republican contender for president has declared, “Islam hates us.” Those of “us” who are Americans and also Muslim feel trapped. Even so, we can’t help but wonder what we can say or do to make the madness stop. The message is clear: Islam doesn’t belong in America, though one out 100 people living in the U.S. is Muslim, according to the Pew Research Center.
If some version of Trump’s plans to block on Muslims entering the U.S. were to somehow gain ground, or his willingness to consider placing us in internment camps were to prove contagious, where would we go?
Learning — And Unlearning — To Be An ‘Ambassador’ For Islam
Illustration caption: Writer Beenish Ahmed reflects on being a “mostly unwanted ambassador” for the only home she’s ever known.
Illustration credit: Angie Wang for NPR
Cannot even imagine what it feels like to be a Muslim American today. That anyone should feel like an outsider in their own home is tragic, and sickeningly ironic in a country FULL of immigrants.
My first stint as guest co-host of The Good Works Show with Elaine Armstrong.
