She goes out into the cold night
to search for the She
with the guts.
Death is firmest where it is fluid.
A bucket rises with my body in it.
She looks in it and says, Well, there you are,
chopped up in little pieces, and sure enough,
no guts either.


by Stan Rice

Charles Bukowski
 

“You have to die a few times before you can really live.”


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Wont you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
~Richard B. Sheridan

Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
 

Margaret Fuller, American writer, journalist, and philosopher, was part of the Transcendentalist circle. Margaret Fuller's "conversations" encouraged the women of Boston to develop their intellectual capacities. In 1845 Margaret Fuller published Woman in the Nineteenth Century, now considered an early feminist classic.
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• Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But, in fact, they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

• Let it not be said, whenever there is energy or creative genius, "She has a masculine mind."

Authors unknown, to me anyway.
 

No good deed goes unpunished.

Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.

Karma is a bitch. (thankfully).

It is what it is. (my life mantra).

A hero is also someone who is branded as being a coward for not doing something when he knows it may hurt others.

"Float like a butterfly: Sting like a bee,"

(Cassius Clay ~>> Muhammad Ali)

残り物には福がある。
 

Luck exists in the leftovers (literally).

Meaning: There is luck in the last helping.

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way,” ― Charles Bukowski

Miss Monroe
 

"Well-behaved women rarely make history."

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Andrea Dworkin (September 26, 1946 - April 9, 2005)
 

Andrea Dworkin, a radical feminist whose early activism including working against the Vietnam War, became a strong voice for the position that pornography is a tool by which men control, objectify, and subjugate women. With Catherine MacKinnon, Andrea Dworkin helped draft a Minnesota ordinance that did not outlaw pornography but allowed victims of rape and other sexual crimes to sue pornographers for damage, under the logic that the culture created by pornography supported sexual violence against women.

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• Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.

• The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

• The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.

• Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity.

• We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent -- see, he's jealous, he cares -- a woman shows how much she cares by how much she's willing to be hurt; by how much she will take; how much she will endure.

• Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

"There, but for the grace of God, go I".

This is something I find myself repeating more than once a day. If I find myself judging someone's situation, their lack of prevention that put them there;
If I see someone in a really bad place.

I believe that we all have the responsibly to take care of our brothers, sisters & strangers. The better place we're in, the more we should do. Be grateful we have what we have & help those with less than.

When we're in a really bad place, remember, someone always has it worse.

"There, but for the grace of God go I".

Neruda...of course...
 

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep it's your eyes that close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

Katniss

Putting this on my "I carry you everywhere binder at work". Thank you!

David Rakoff passed away at the age of 47 today.
 

“The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous task of tolerating oneself long enough to push something out.”
― David Rakoff, Half Empty


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A repair shop:

WE CAN REPAIR ANYTHING. (PLEASE KNOCK HARD ON THE DOOR - THE BELL DOESN'T WORK)

“We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.”


― Cornel West, Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

“But it does not seem that I can trust anyone,' said Frodo.
Sam looked at him unhappily. 'It all depends on what you want,' put in Merry. 'You can trust us to stick with you through thick and thin--to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours--closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

Sojourner Truth (~1797-1883)
 

Sojourner Truth was born a slave, and became a popular spokeperson for abolition, women's rights, and temperance. Her famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech is known in several variants, because Sojourner Truth herself did not write it down.
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• There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. So I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again. -- Equal Rights Convention, New York, 1867

• If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again!

• Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

• Religion without humanity is poor human stuff.

my choice is what I choose to do
and if I'm causing no harm
it shouldn't bother you
your choice is who you choose to be
and if your causin' no harm
then you're alright with me

burn one down... Ben Harper

Kindness is a language we all can speak.

Even the deaf can hear it and the blind

can see it. (Mother Teresa)

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity. – William Samuel Johnson.

Love all of these...
 

Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
-- Emory Austin


Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.
-- Chinese Proverbs

What happens to a person is less significant than what happens within him.
-- Louis L. Mann

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
-- Bernice Johnson Reagon

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, un-forgiveness, selfishness and fears.
-- Glenn Clark

Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.
Jack Buck

“You can do anything, but not everything.” -David Allen

Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 - November 15, 1978)
 

Margaret Mead was an anthropologist known for her work on the relationship of culture and personality. Mead's early work stressed the cultural basis of gender roles while later she wrote about the biological influence on male and female behaviors, too. She became a prominent lecturer and writer on family and child-rearing issues.

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• In 1976: We women are doing pretty well. We're almost back to where we were in the twenties.

• Because of their age-long training in human relations -- for that is what feminine intuition really is -- women have a special contribution to make to any group enterprise.

• It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

• If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

• If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

• Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.

My favorite saying...
 

My favorite saying is, "who cares?!!!!" lol!!

Wishing to be out on the water today....
 

"Maritime" by Nizar Qabbani

In the blue harbor of your eyes
Blow rains of melodious lights,
Dizzy suns and sails
Painting their voyage to endlessness.

In the blue harbor of your eyes
Is an open sea window,
And birds appear in the distance
Searching for islands still unborn.

In the blue harbor of your eyes
Snow falls in July.
Ships laden with turquoise
Spill over the sea and are not drowned.

In the blue harbor of your eyes
I run on the scattered rocks like a child
Breathing the fragrance of the sea
And return an exhausted bird.

In the blue harbor of your eyes
Stones sing in the night.
Who has hidden a thousand poems
In the closed book of your eyes?

If only, if only I were a sailor,
If only somebody'd give me a boat,
I would furl my sails each evening
In the blue harbor of your eyes.

Katniss

"nothing gives human beings pain longer or so persistently plagues the human memory than questions which have never been adequately answered. every parent who has survived a child, every lover who is lost to the one they live and breathe for, every person who realizes that they have egregiously harmed another, every culture whose prophets and wise people seem to have abandoned them to chaos has experienced great pain over the same unanswered question: 'why?'

the lack of an answer to that question, an answer we can understand and except, causes a gnawing ache in the chest and a loss of equilibrium from which we never fully recover. we only learn to go on without the sort of balance we had before and hope that one day we will learn not to notice the emptiness left behind in our hearts. this, my dear friends, is where we must come together and embrace compassion for one another with great urgency. compassion for every muslim. for every sikh. for every pagan. for every buddhist. for every jew. for every christian. for every agnostic. for every athiest. for every law abiding citizen and every criminal. for every teacher and every student. for every leader and every working person; for the poorest among us and the richest. for every woman, man and child. for every straight person and gay person. for every race, ethnicity, religion and philosophy, ability, size, shape and kind of human being we should have compassion because each and every one of these people understands the grief that arises from an unanswered 'why'. the blank, painful space of 'why?' is never filled entirely, never heals fully and it is the one thing all humans know. from this commonality all other common threads can be interwoven. we all know the grief of the unanswered 'why?' and so we know too the strength it takes to go on from that void of understanding. it is with this commonality in mind that we should begin our work toward peace. we must begin by acknowledging the grief we have in common over our own painfully unanswered 'why?' " Desmond Tutu

"It only takes one person to change your life - You"

Explore every thought in depth. Be above the drama of the Situation. Deepak Chopra

"What you think about, you bring about." I read "The Secret", and watched the movie, it's amazing and so true! (have a vision board too!) I recommend it to anyone and everyone!

Margaret Sanger (1884-1966)
 

Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, worked first as a nurse where she learned first-hand of the health and social problems of too many pregnancies. Margaret Sanger spent time in jail to fight for sex education, and for distributing contraceptive information and contraceptives. Margaret Sanger lived long enough to see the practice of birth control declared a constitutional right (for married couples) in 1965.
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• No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

• Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

• When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

The real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other big businesses.

• Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." - Noam Chomsky

No one looks back on their life and remembers the nights they got plenty of sleep.