Reminders for myself
You might say to yourself, using your food money on a pipe dream is crazy. Why do you need to build a library? Why do you need to farm rice? I would respond: is it not so marvelous? To want the world you see in your head more than you want the food here on the ground? I didn’t know it was possible to want a dream more than I could want food. What... See more
The strip club did indeed make me bonkers!
if you want that which feels insurmountable, you must move towards those boundary points of insanity with a peaceful and persistent curiosity. You must inquire as to why you ever thought it was impossible in the first place. Who told you that? Why? What stake did that person or belief system or institution have in making sure that you never... See more
From Ismatu Gwendolyn’s The strip club did indeed make me bonkers!
“Why fear? The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, ever moving, but never lost; so what need of denominations and creeds to deny myself the comfort of all my fellow men? The wide belt of the universe has no need for finger-rings. I am one with the infinite and need no other assurance.”
— Zora Neale-Hurston
Growing Pains
“An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you’ll sort of be alright.”
— Bob Dylan