“Here is the world: beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.” —Frederick Buechner
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“Here is the world: beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.” —Frederick Buechner
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A weekend visit to Kasbah, Tangier, including the Sultanate Palace, the first “supermarket”, and the first street address (Dar 0) in Tangier
But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to “be happy.” Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy…
—Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
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“One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party.” —Franz Kafka
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If you were a geeky child of the 80s like me, the film Tron was transformative. This episode of the Imaginary Worlds podcast is a wonderful look back at just how important that film has been.
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“Hope locates itself in the premises that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act.” —Rebecca Solnit
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“You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.” —Jane Hirshfield
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Sunset ride
It was a beautiful day.
“Some people will never like you because your spirit irritates their demons.” —Unknown
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So, it’s come to this. ❌🍞
Love this: The Kilobyte’s Gambit—a chess game in only 1024 bytes of code.
Constraints breed creativity.
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Walkabout
“Don’t sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.” —Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.” —Marcus Aurelius
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☀️ = 🧺 day
“The end is nothing; the road is all.” —Willa Cather
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“In a way, you’ve already won in this world, because you’re the only one who can be you.” —Fred Rogers
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To be human is finally to be a loser, for we are all fated to lose our carefully constructed sense of self, our physical strength, our health, our precious dignity, and finally our lives. A refusal to tolerate this reality is a refusal to tolerate life, and art based on the empowering message and positive image is just such a refusal.
—Mary Gaitskill, Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays
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Fly by night
I could spend days photographing doorways in Morocco. Each one is unique.
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” —Oscar Wilde
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