Dread Pirate

Bob Suarez

[rainie-is-seasonchange]

Colourful mountain.

Mt. Kurikoma, Miyagi, Japan.

[the-rilla]

Heavy Colas, Erratic weather patterns

Traces of civilization, growing flowers

In poisonous cans...

The black man cowers, at the sight of guns

The Indian knows, true colonisation is that of the heart mind and soul

They welcome, with open arms

[the-rilla]

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Reasoning '21

[the-rilla]

[icyauras]

Theodore Earl Butler, Sunset at Veules-les-Roses, Seine-Mar, 1905, Private collection.

[the-rilla]

Trim

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

Brothers, Lucille Clifton

[ID: the desire / to reach beyond the stars / is You. all You, all You / the loneliness, the perfect / imperfection.]

[nairobizingzing]

Bado Mapema 2020 (Ed Wainaina).

[sleg]

by  danieljose

[museiums]

artist: quentin monge

[a-lc01]

Kenya 🇰🇪

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

full of peace

“Drink water from the spring where horses drink. The horse will never drink bad water. Lay your bed where the cat sleeps. Eat the fruit that has been touched by a worm. Boldly pick the mushroom on which the insects sit. Plant the tree where the mole digs. Dig your fountain where the birds hide from the heat. Go to sleep and wake up at the same time with the birds – you will reap all of the day’s golden grains. Eat more green – you will have strong legs and a resistant heart, like the beings of the forest. Swim often and you will feel on earth like the fish in the water. Look at the sky as often as possible and your thoughts will become light and clear. Be quiet a lot, speak little – and silence will come in your heart, and your spirit will be calm and full of peace.”

Saint Seraphim of Sarov

Ley Lines and Earth Mysteries

[artemisiasea]

When Toni Morrison said the grandeur of life is the attempt, not the solution… And how she went on to explain that it’s about behaving as beautifully as one can under completely impossible circumstances. The power that has, you know? It’s really just the making room for what breathes in the presence of the attempt. In the coming-to-be. 

[berakar]

[artemisiasea]

This is the one.

[seashell-strut]

Q: How do you survive whole in a world where we’re all victims of something?“

Ms. Morrison: Ummm, how do you survive whole–I can’t do this quickly, for one–how can you survive whole and when we’re victims of something, um. You know that’s a nice fat, eastern/western philosophical question about ‘how do you get through’?

Sometimes you don’t survive whole, you just survive in part. But the grandeur of life is that attempt, it’s not about that solution.

It is about being as fearless as one can, behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances. It’s that, that makes it elegant. Good is more interesting. More complex, more demanding.

Evil is silly. It may be horrible but at the same time it’s not a compelling idea: it’s predictable, it needs a tuxedo, it needs blood, it needs fingernails, it’s all that costume, in order to get anybody’s attention.

But the opposite, which is survival, blossoming, endurance, those things are just more compelling intellectually, if not spiritually and they certainly are spiritually. This is more fascinating job.

We are already born. We are going to die. So you have to do something interesting that you respect in between.”

[salmmonney]