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