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Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

- T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

Art: Crow - Magnon 2022 Matthew Grabelsky 

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"One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began/though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice/ But little by little as you left their voices behind/ there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own/ that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world/determined to save the only life you could save." Mary Oliver

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“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.” ― Virginia Woolf

Photo posted and may be by: Hanna Babitskaya

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This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Photo: Sarah Trask

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Fire Down On The Labrador `David Blackwood

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Church and Horse Alex Colville

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Corfu: Lights and Shadows John Singer Sargent

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Tread Softly! All the Earth is Holy Ground. ~Christina Rossetti, (1830 – 1894)

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What matters is precisely this; the unspoken at the edge of the spoken. ~ Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated July 21, 1912.

~ Laura Knight

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“You and i are Earth 1661”. Tin-glazed earthenware plate found in a London sewer, from the Wellcome Collection’s “Dirt” exhibition.

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April 24 in 1895, Joshua Slocum of Nova Scotia set sail on his oyster boat to complete the first solo circumnavigation of the planet. He completed his 74,000 km journey in 3 years, 2 months and 2 days.

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Josef Stoitzner (Austrian, 1884–1951)

"After the Rain," 1925

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Young lady playing a harp to a large crowd in Ireland in 1910.

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Pedro Luis Raota Argentinian, 1934–1986 Unexpected Gift, 1979 From Mercado magazine

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Edvard Munch

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I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine

William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream