Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. I am going to write fire until it comes out my ears, my eyes, my noseholes—everywhere. Until it’s every breath I breathe. I’m going to go out like a fucking meteor!”
— — Audre Lorde, from “A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer,” The Selected Works of Audre Lorde (via lifeinpoetry)
Insist on believing that good will prevail; that the work will get done; that there will again be love. We have to want to get up in the morning for the good mornings to arrive.
- Tennessee Williams, in Follies of God, June 29, 2023 (via Alive on All Channels)
This Overview shows a deforested area of Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Since the mid-1980s, resettlement of people from the high plains of the Andes Mountains and a corresponding agricultural development effort known as the Tierras Bajas project has led to utter deforestation in this region. The pinwheel-patterned fields follow the San Javier resettlement scheme, with each pinwheel containing a central community that includes a church, bar/café, school, and soccer field. The light-colored areas of the formations are primarily fields of soybeans, and the dark lines running through the fields are “windbreaks” that prevent the erosion of the area’s unusually fine soil.
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Jean-Michel Folon - The Red Sun (watercolour on cardboard, 1999)
Mpho Tutu
Oda Mayumi Ancient Sea, Nautilus, 1986 Color screenprint on paper; titled, numbered, and signed '…44/45…Mayumi' in pencil along the lower margin; matted. 34 1/4 x 25 1/2 in. (87.1 x 64.8 cm) sheet 38 1/4 x 25 1/2 in. (97.3 x 64.8 cm)