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“These days, it’s easy to feel that we’ve fallen out of connection with one another and with the earth and with reason and with love. I mean: we have. But to read, to write, is to say that we still believe in, at least, the possibility of connection.”
― George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on
Jeremy Scott by katie Grand and Norbert Schoerner (1998)
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Diana Ross wearing a custom gown by Nigerian designer ✨Ugo Mozie✨, featuring an 18-foot train embroidered with the names of her children and grandchildren. 🪡 https://t.co/yOaNGq7Idb
McQueen F/W 2009, The Horn of Plenty: a thread
In his rules-breaking penultimate collection, Lee unleashed his anger toward the fashion industry. The show, a satire of Haute Couture, opened a discussion on fast fashion, recycling and waste. https://t.co/eEYh313jJN
Within us there is a child bound by order, control, sedation, expectation, judgment, and self-denial. Our anger is this child screaming for air and sunlight from within the dungeon of our forgotten heart. Whenever we self-medicate, we are practicing internalized child abuse.
Michael Brown • Alchemy of the Heart
I am convinced that some people are driven to addictions to quiet their constant inner critic, but it only gives them another thing to hate about themselves. What a vicious cycle! Moral scrutiny is not to discover how good or bad we are and regain some moral high ground, but to begin some honest “shadowboxing” which is at the heart of all spiritual... See more