Gems 5.159

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Photo by Picmonkey.  Art by Pixabay.  I put the two together.  Unfortunately, the art is from an inactive account, 8926, so I don’t have an attribution.  Lots of beauty on those 23 pages.

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Gems 5.158

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Photo “Strahov Monastery, Prague,” by Izoca, Pixabay

“I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.” Alexander Smith

Alexander Smith was a 19th Century Scottish “spasmodic” poet* and essayist.

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Gems 5.156

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Photo by Corn Freak, Pixabay

“Find your pack.  Love them hard.”  –Nicole Huguenin

Nicole Huguenin

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Gems 5.155

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Photo “Baltic Sea” by Vait McRight, Pixabay

Full quote from Kim Morrow interview:

“It turns out that a lot of this, a lot of the things we were doing before, a lot of the ways we’ve been living in this culture as Americans, have not been so great anyway. This is an opportunity for us to throw those out, throw out the ways of being that don’t serve our wholeheartedness, that don’t serve our health and the health of the world we live in, to throw out those ways that don’t serve our ability to form communities and to care for each other first. So there’s just some really interesting potential, I think, in the midst of this crisis.”  -Kim Morrow, Sep 14, 2019: Climate Change, Community and Personal Resilience, and the Journey of Motherhood

 

Gems 5.152

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Photo by PixxlTeufel, Pixabay.

“Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed. He’s making sure your imagination withers. Until it’s as useful as your appendix.”

—Chuck Palahniuk

don’t
believe
everything
you think

From:  Tristan Harris — Fighting Skynet and Firewalling Attention (#387)

I hope we have a beautiful weekend.

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