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A man dumps the body of a girl in a ditch. The body rots and melts into slime. Flowers pop up where the body lies. Seeds fly out of the flowers. A bee sucks the flowers and makes honey. The family of the girl buys the honey from the store. The family eats the girl.

- The Tracey Fragments (film)

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That everything should decay is a law of nature. Fruits decay, plants decay, animals decay, man decays. This world of ours would clog up if there were no decay.

-American Food Journal, 1915

we will never have sex song

The basis of our humanness is in our ability to create things. Our art—in the broadest sense—is whatever we make visible in the world. Each of us has to choose the scale at which we want to be artists of our own lives. It may be your family or your job or your neighborhood.

Amy Whitaker • Art Thinking: How to Carve Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses

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to arrive at this vision, we must have a global conversation about the world we want to live in.

cameronwiese.com • It's time to build: A New World's Fair

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When things are going well, there’s a process weaving from the bottom to the top. When relationships are forming well, microscopic neural networks weave together in the brain, individual personalities weave together and are made stronger, families weave tight bonds and are made more resilient, neighborhoods become more coherent, towns more vibrant,

David Brooks • The Relationalist Manifesto

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This speech delivered at the Secular Solstice is a beautiful reminder that despite our flaws, we (humans) have always found a way to thrive: “You’re only human.” That’s what someone says when they want you to set your sights a little lower, to make your goals a little less lofty. “Only... See more

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What's so great about being human? It might be this: The ability to know that we know gives us the ability to know ourselves, the ability to know that we exist and that we exist in an astonishing universe. It gives us the ability to fall in love with every thing and with eternity. If we are the only beings who know that we know, then we are the

Bill Plotkin • Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World

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fucking insane how we started with dirt and rocks and dead trees and somehow built all of this shit. empty planet of nothing and now look at us glass skyscrapers cutting through clouds digital networks spanning continents. we took useless ancient plants crushed under dirt for millions of years and turned them into flying metal birds that cross... See more

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