#wordsfrombooks

[liviclifford]

I believe that in order to be a light in the world, you first need to come home to who you truly are and then bravely show it to all those around you.

Rebecca Campbell - Light is the New Black

[juliamargaretlu]

When I said LOVE I meant EROTIC love; deep transforming bounty one imparts to another reciprocally; it assumes... all! To celebrate, illuminate respect, tenderness, trust, passion, and regard... to joyfully put all we are into one another's hands... all contact, touch, expression possible, desired.

Carolee Schneeman

[juliamargaretlu]

Conversation 2: 'We've just hired that zany girl from Xanadu and let her loose on the postgraduates and the sparks are flying... Yep, the roof's still leaking like a bucket so we've rigged up this plastic tent--works just like a bedsheet!'

Peter Cook; Conversations 1,2 & 3, from Education: Trial and Error. The Metropolitan Laboratory Magazine.

[juliamargaretlu]

We want what risk generates without wanting to take real risks. Therein lies the catch. To preserve the very unknowing, which knowing seeks to eradicate and invention requires for discovery.

Eric Ellingsen; Pilot Training, from Education: Trial and Error, The Metropolitan Laboratory Magazine.

[juliamargaretlu]

Smartphone ownership rates have more than doubled for every age group in America since 2010, meaning that almost all of us now carry a get-out-of-human-interaction-free cards in our pockets 24/7

Lyman Stone; American Fertility is Falling Short of What Women Want. Feb 13 2018 The New York Times

[juliamargaretlu]

Edwin was staring straight into my eyes. Ten years later as we sat talking late into the night, gathering material for his biography, I asked Edwin (half in jest) if he remembered our first meeting, and he replied (half in jest) that he remembered it very well indeed: "a vague sensation of someone bending too close to me." He smiled, and I instantly moved away,

 Steven Millhouse; Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright / 928-0-679-76652-0 | 15

[juliamargaretlu]

Naturally I belonged to the bright and correct world, I was my parents' child; but wherever I turned my eyes and ears, the other world was there and I lived in it, too, even though it was often unfamiliar and uncanny to me, even though I regularly got pangs of conscience and anxiety from it. In fact, at times I preferred to live in the forbidden world, and frequently my return home to the bright realm, no matter ow necessary and good that might be, was almost like a return to someplace less beautiful, more boring and dreary.

Herman Hesse; Demian

[juliamargaretlu]

Public space is ‘the cherry on top’ of the imagined urban ice-cream sundae; once all basic human needs are satisfied, public space is the first element that can make a city great. To think that is to consider it in the highest ideal: that it is physically accessible to disabled and able bodies, that it is open to the entire general public with few restrictions on usage, and that its openness is protected and maintained by the agencies that operate it. Such true public spaces serve as anchors in an urban environment and incubate interactive communities.

Julia Margaret Lu; Medellin á la Manhattan, Public Housing and Urban Challenges in the Americas. December 2017