#mastery

[vintage-tigre]

[dk-thrive]

He said the happiest people, in every society and every era, were those who created things, but without ambition.

They came upon a booth where a woman was selling baskets and belts made of leather. They stopped, smiled, touched the objects, walked on... “But maybe in three hundred years those belts are on display at the Met, as examples of late twentieth-century Midwestern arts and crafts. And I had an anthropologist friend—he’d studied people all over the world for fifty years. He said the happiest people, in every society and every era, were those who created things, but without ambition. The people who make belts, vases, toys. You bring something new into the world, like a god, but without the human need to be recognized for it. Is that happiness?

— Dave Eggers, Contrapposto: A Novel (Knopf, June 9, 2026)

[thegentlemanschronicles]

some music finds you…

[cosmicportal]

[sameerspiritual]

In tutu's shadowed cradle of introspection, arms entwine vulnerability's veiled thorn, gaze murmurs resilience's seductive lament, serene beauty sculpts art's enigmatic dawn.

[koijikido]

#Vierapril2025 23. Mastery 🏹

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Pat :: @Patbrdh :: Photography Noemia Prada

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Mastery of a skill, no matter how small—a step, a bow, a bend, a note—will inhabit you forever. You can never again be the human being that you were. Alan Bowers

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