An art student that is desperately trying to get rid of that occupation.
A sometimes reluctant writer and secret poet.
A little womanist, a little feminist, a little dark humor, a lot of time, a little money.
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In the cleaning of the closet recently
I realized that was a retractable easel inside there.
How did I forget that?
I haven’t drawn extremely large scale in quite sometime. Model sheets, storyboards and the like don’t need be incessantly large. Perhaps the lack of need for it contributed to forgetting about it…
I extensively searched my memory for the means upon which it arrived in my closet in the first place. Strangely it didn’t feel quite real, how I’d forgetten. I thought, I would never forget that I share ownership of a drill for maquettes, or a bench pen for fabrication. How did I forget I own an easel…a very nice one, at that.
Maybe it is not important, but it seems like a reason to make time for the type of drawing I used to do, over the majority of the work I dabble in now, for no other reason than that it made me smile.
It’s not that other work does not, but sometimes I tend to lose sight of where my interests in art lie deepest perhaps because at times I attempt to dabble in everything for the sake of being drawn by the particular work of another artist. For the sake of knowing it to some degree because I try to intimate myself with their process, especially when I am intriguied by the person…I sometimes forget where my drive is when application is needless.
Maybe it means nothing.
Maybe and only maybe.
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David A. Fitschen. Beauty Foster. @beautyfoster.
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WOW.
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Beatrice Dalle
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Restful nights
Photographer- Q. Oliver
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NICE PINEAPPLES!
LUSCIOUS PINEAPPLES…grown in Hawaii by Dole. This popular fruit is one of the Aloha State’s main crops.
This was mailed in 1960. The sender wrote: “How about flying over & doing a little Pineapple picking too? This is the land of relaxation. Great trip. Betsy & Hilda.”
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7 Little Things That Make Life Effortless.
1. Do less. This is my productivity mantra, and it’s counterintuitive. I actually don’t believe in productivity, but instead believe in doing the important things. Do less, and you’ll force yourself to choose between what’s just busywork, and what really matters. Life then becomes effortless, as you accomplish big things while being less busy.
2. Having less is lighter. Start asking yourself if you really need everything you have, or if you just have it out of fear. Start to let go of what you have, so it doesn’t own you. And then, as you have less, you feel lighter. It’s wonderful.
3. Let the little things go. People who struggle often fight over little things. We obsess over things that don’t really matter. We create resistance instead of letting things glide off us. Let the little things go, breathe, and move on to the important things.
4. Clean as you go. I haven’t written about this for a long time, but early in the life of Zen Habits I wrote about the habit of cleaning as you go. Instead of letting the cleaning pile up, put things away when you’re done. Wash your bowl. Wipe the counters clean as you pass them. Sweep up dirt when you notice it. By cleaning a little bit at a time, as you make messes, cleaning up becomes a breeze, and it’s never difficult. By the way, this applies to everything in life, not just cleaning.
5. Make small, gradual changes. Most people are too impatient to follow this advice — they want to do everything at once. We have so many changes to make, but we don’t want to wait a year for it all to happen. As a result, we often fail, and then feel crappy about it. Or we don’t start at all, because so many big changes is intimidating and overwhelming. I’ve learned the hard way that small changes are incredibly powerful, and they last longer. Gradual change leads to huge change, but slowly, and in a way that sticks. And it’s effortless.
6. Learn to focus on the things that matter. This is implied in the items above, but it’s so important I have to emphasize it. Swimming (or any physical activity for that matter) is best done when you do only the motions that matter, and eliminate the extraneous motions. Stop thrashing, start becoming more efficient and fluid. You do this by learning what matters, and cutting out the wasted activity.
7. Be compassionate. This makes dealing with others much more effortless. It also makes you feel better about yourself. People like you more, and you improve the lives of others. Make every dealing with another human being one where you practice compassion.
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Habibi, by Craig Thompson
Sprawling across an epic landscape of deserts, harems, and modern industrial clutter, HABIBI tells the tale of Dodola and Zam, refugee child slaves bound to each other by chance, by circumstance, and by the love that grows between them.
At once contemporary and timeless, HABIBI gives us a love story of astounding resonance: a parable about our relationship to the natural world, the cultural divide between the first and third worlds, the common heritage of Christianity and Islam, and, most potently, the magic of storytelling.
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Stop worrying about your identity and concern yourself with the people you care about, ideas that matter to you, beliefs you can stand by, tickets you can run on. Intelligent humans make those choices with their brain and hearts and they make them alone. The world does not deliver meaning to you. You have to make it meaningful…and decide what you want and need and must do. It’s a tough, unimaginably lonely and complicated way to be in the world. But that’s the deal: you have to live; you can’t live by slogans, dead ideas, clichés, or national flags. Finding an identity is easy. It’s the easy way out.
– Zadie Smith (via tobia)(via baddominicana)
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“Abbaon Fat Track” - Tricky & Martina Topley Bird (1995)
