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External Destiny Inflicted

“Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been. This obliges us to construct for ourselves — as the physicist constructs his models — an imaginary life of the individual, the graph of his successful life. Upon which we then distribute the […]

I will be the picture of discipline

Really enjoyed reading (but mostly listening to…) @amandapalmer about The Art of Asking (order here 😉 ) over the past couple of weeks. Much more sweet & lovely than I was expecting… #recommended ~ /… I haven’t finished yet / I still have a tattoo to get / That says I’m living in the moment. / ~ […]

Answer Key

  Yes. Yes. No. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes, yes, & yes. Yes. Yes¹. Yes.   ¹ Obviously.  

the tender shoots

“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth […]

One of the most ethereal and difficult-to-grasp art forms

[from episode 17 – ‘Valentine‘ ] The City Council recently moved to name “dance” as the official town language. This measure has been met with tense debate and raised voices over the past several weeks. Proponents say we need a unified language, as it will save money on municipal signage and documentation — not to mention […]