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Run - photo by Mikael Palinchak (500px.com)

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Scamper.

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Lawn - Carla Bley Sextet

Sextet (Watt 1987)

2002년도 10월 LG Art Center에서 만났던 할머니. 텀블이 맛탱이 가서 이젠 안해야 하나 했었다. 텀블 복구 기념으로 한곡 올리고 자야쥐~

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You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without any doubt, I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me. Lift the oars from the water, let your arms rest, and your heart, and heart’s little intelligence, and listen to me. There is life without love. It is not worth a bent penny, or a scuffed shoe. It is not worth the body of a dead dog nine days unburied. When you hear, a mile away and still out of sight, the churn of the water as it begins to swirl and roil, fretting around the sharp rocks—when you hear that unmistakable pounding—when you feel the mist on your mouth and sense ahead the embattlement, the long falls plunging and steaming—then row, row for your life toward it.

Mary Oliver, West Wind 2 (via exhaled-spirals)

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Armadillo, waterproof., Louisiana, 1986 - photo by Baldwin Lee, from “Black Americans In The South” series

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Mean Mistreater - Grand Funk Railroad, from the album "Closer To Home" (1970)

Grand Funk Railroad - Mean Mistreater

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The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body - to feel it at all times. This will rapidly deepen and transform your life. The more consciousness you direct into the inner body, the higher its vibrational frequency becomes, and so increase the flow of electricity. At this higher energy level, negativity cannot affect you anymore.

Eckhart Tolle (via ashramof1)

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Darlin’ Darlin’ Baby (Sweet, Tender, Love) - The O'Jays, from the album “Message In The Music” (1976)

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6 Native American girls explain the tragic story behind Thanksgiving

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The first Thanksgiving Day did occur in the year 1637, but it was nothing like our Thanksgiving today. On that day the Massachusetts Colony Governor, John Winthrop, proclaimed such a “Thanksgiving” to celebrate the safe return of a band of heavily armed hunters, all colonial volunteers. They had just returned from their journey to what is now Mystic, Connecticut where they massacred 700 Pequot Indians. Seven hundred Indians - men, women and children - all murdered. This day is still remembered today, 373 years later. No, it’s been long forgotten by white people, by European Christians. But it is still fresh in the mind of many Indians. A group calling themselves the United American Indians of New England meet each year at Plymouth Rock on Cole’s Hill for what they say is a Day of Mourning. They gather at the feet of a statue of Chief Massasoit of the Wampanoag to remember the long gone Pequot. They do not call it Thanksgiving. There is no football game afterward.

Richard Greener | The True Story of Thanksgiving (via america-wakiewakie)

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Untitled (Kolkata, India) - photo by Saumalya Ghosh

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Автор:  Saumalya Ghosh

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Mox Nix - Art Farmer, from the album “Modern Art” (1958)

Written by Art Farmer.

Bass – Addison Farmer Drums – Dave Bailey Piano – Bill Evans Tenor Saxophone – Benny Golson Trumpet – Art Farmer

Art Farmer: Mox Nix - Modern Art

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all hail the sun | Matthew Blum

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As a black parent of a 5 year old boy, I’ve begun to notice the lack of shows and movies that are starring kids that look like him.  We have movie night twice a month and I try to find movies starring black kids his age that are positive and fun that he would enjoy.  I must say, it’s very hard to find, even during the holidays.

This really needs to change.  All kids should be represented on television and in movies as the main character.  Children of color, in particular, need to have shows where they can picture themselves as the superhero, detective, the kid doctor, or just a kid in a fun family.  Parents and kids shouldn't have to dig deep to find shows or movies that have kids that look like them.  It would be amazing if there was a kids channel where that they can access at anytime to see children shows and movies where kids like them are the star.

Please sign this petition and share if you agree and would like to see this change!  Thank you!!

- Anisha Rice started this petition

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Shall we dance, or keep on moping? Shall we dance and walk on air? Shall we give in to despair? Or shall we dance with never a care? Life is short. We’re growing older. Don’t you be an also ran. You’ve got to dance, little lady. Dance, little man. Dance whenever you can.

Ira Gershwin (from the song ‘Shall We Dance’)

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Luz Teimosa (Stubborn Light), 1949 - photo by Fernando Lemos

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Fernando Lemos

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I Had A King - Joni Mitchell, from the album “Song To A Seagull” (1968)

I had a king  || Joni Mitchell

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By Peter Maass October 10 2019, 5:34 p.m.

Stockholm is more than 1,500 miles from Sarajevo, and the war in Bosnia was halted in 1995, so there’s a lot of time and distance between the Swedes who just chose the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature and the nasty war that happened in the heart of the Balkans a generation ago. But that’s no excuse for the decision to give this year’s prize to Peter Handke, who denies that a well-documented genocide was committed by Serbs against Muslims in Bosnia.

We live in perplexing times when the U.S. president saw “very fine people” among neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, and we have a television network that traffics in racism and conspiracy theories. Our world is being described in fraudulent ways, and history is being rewritten to suit these distorted narratives. The last thing we need, and the last thing I’d expect to happen, is for an intellectual honor as paramount as the Nobel Prize to go to a writer who embodies the prime intellectual diseases of our era. And let’s remember that the Nobel selection comes at a moment when violent white supremacists are singling out the 1990s Serbs as heroic avatars of what needs to be done in our world. It’s dumbfounding that the Nobel Committee would seize this moment to honor an Austrian writer who defends these war criminals and dissembles on their behalf.

What were they thinking?

I honestly don’t know where to begin with this whole thing. But let me start by making clear what I am not saying. I am not saying that we should not read Handke’s literary work. My objection is not a version of the age-old question of whether we should listen to Richard Wagner. Go ahead and listen to Wagner. Go ahead and read Handke. My point is this: It is one thing to read him — it is quite another to bestow upon him a prize that delivers a great amount of legitimacy to his entire body of work, not just the novels and plays that are most impeccable and nonpolitical.

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