“It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation had said, ‘All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up.’ And they did.” She is still the most significant photographer of the marginalized, misunderstood, and avoided in our culture. Her death anniversary was yesterday...I didn’t post it because I was on vacation and happy with sharing that time with family and I was avoiding that cynical side of my mind, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t post about a hero. “I go up and down a lot. Maybe I’ve always been like that. Partly what happens though is I get filled with energy and joy and I begin lots of things or think about what I want to do and get all breathless with excitement and then quite suddenly either through tiredness or a disappointment or something more mysterious the energy vanishes, leaving me harassed, swamped, distraught, frightened by the very things I thought I was so eager for! I’m sure this is quite classic.” #dianearbus #american #photographer #marginalized #freaks #blackandwhitephotography #wearehuman #mentalhealthawareness #deathanniversary #practicedying (at Akron, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0cVI0QhxGz/?igshid=10smt4a9zo2bd