Whimsical Voice

musings, inspirations, transformations… thoughts on creative process, producing your work, and supporting the arts… exploring through original stories, poems, sketches, photos, travels, sounds, and movement...

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Winter Sunset over the pond.

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Walking. 

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Rita Dove: “The first thing that goes when a government becomes a tyranny are words”

Salon talks to poet Rita Dove about why degrading language and the arts threatens democracy and humanity

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This blog will make you feel at peace

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a house across the back parking lot from my house... I just heard a cacophony of screams and yelling, the sun is setting, I peer down from my kitchen window, through the gently rustling leaves of a tree in the yard across the way, to see 4 police cars squealing down the street... more screams and shouting, getting louder and shriller... until a police officer broke a woman's arm. 

All is quiet and now all I can hear is a baby crying "mommy"... 

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A togetherness between two people is an impossibility, and where it seems, nevertheless, to exist, it is a narrowing, a reciprocal agreement which robs either one party or both of his fullest freedom and development. But, once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky.

Rainer Marie Rilke

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Dying Woman Throws A Party For 30 Guests And Kills Herself At The End

In July 2016, Betsy Davis invited 30 of her closest friends and family to a weekend party at a house in southern California. The invitation read: These circumstances are unlike any party you have attended before, requiring emotional stamina, centeredness, and openness. She also noted the party’s one firm rule: No crying in front of...

This is one of the most beautiful ideas, how to take control in the face of death, and actively create a celebration. A loving, thoughtful departure. 

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Maison Hoffalt for @ambassade_excellence Dancers : @josuahoffalt #simonleborgne Photo by @guillaume_ld_ Fashion editor @monica_pillosio Assistant Fashion editor @stlmarin Make-up Maniacha Hair @b_agency Steven Laudat @bofillarquitectura

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Although I may never know who I am, it feels honest to me that we are partially collections of the people we meet, the people we choose to have around us, and the people we choose to call our loved ones.

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Tee hee #yogacat

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Farm moment, Maine

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"A small needful fact" by Ross gay

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I think midlife is when the universe gently places her hands upon your shoulders, pulls you close, and whispers in your ear: I’m not screwing around. It’s time. All of this pretending and performing – these coping mechanisms that you’ve developed to protect yourself from feeling inadequate and getting hurt – has to go. Your armor is preventing you from growing into your gifts. I understand that you needed these protections when you were small. I understand that you believed your armor could help you secure all of the things you needed to feel worthy of love and belonging, but you’re still searching and you’re more lost than ever. Time is growing short. There are unexplored adventures ahead of you. You can’t live the rest of your life worried about what other people think. You were born worthy of love and belonging. Courage and daring are coursing through you. You were made to live and love with your whole heart. It’s time to show up and be seen.

Brené Brown

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I love Thursdays!!! #marketshare

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Strolling

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Pilgrim astronomer