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almost three years like this...

the dream is no longer the dream...

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by   Ivan Cujic

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by Brigitte Vermeer

BBC Earth

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Joan Didion on Self-Respect

Self-respect has nothing to do with the approval of others—who are, after all, deceived easily enough; has nothing to do with reputation—which, as Rhett Butler told Scarlett O’Hara, is something that people with courage can do without.

To do without self-respect, on the other hand, is to be an unwilling audience of one to an interminable home movie that documents one’s failings, both real and imagined, with fresh footage spliced in for each screening.

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However long we postpone it, we eventually lie down alone in that notoriously un- comfortable bed, the one we make ourselves. Whether or not we sleep in it depends, of course, on whether or not we respect ourselves.

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 “I hate careless people,” she told Nick Carraway. “It takes two to make an accident.

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People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called character, a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to other, more instantly negotiable virtues.

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Character—the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life—is the source from which self-respect springs. 

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To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which, for better or for worse, constitutes self-respect, is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference. If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses. On the other, we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out—since our self-image is untenable—their false notions of us. We flatter ourselves by thinking this compulsion to please others an attractive trait: a gift for imaginative empathy, evidence of our willingness to give. 

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It is the phenomenon sometimes called alienation from self. In its advanced stages, we no longer answer the telephone, because someone might want something; that we could say no without drowning in self-reproach is an idea alien to this game. Every encounter demands too much, tears the nerves, drains the will, and the spectre of something as small as an unanswered letter arouses such disproportionate guilt that one’s sanity becomes an object of speculation among one’s acquaintances. To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves—there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.

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embrace

Briony Marshall (Peaceful embrace or the melting of boundaries), Stephan Sinding (To Mennesker), Gustav Vigeland (Kiss), William Zorach (Embrace), Antonio Canova (Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss)

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Izis · fête foraine · 1956

Izis [Israëlis Bidermanas; 1911-1980] ~ Parade pour la ménagerie Lambert. Foire du Trône, Freda Lambert, 1956 | src mutualart View on WordPress

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“Stretch”

by Kunal D Shah (Kenya).

The Greatest Maasai Mara Photographer of the Year.

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Young lions resting atop the emerald Chyulu Hills, wild dogs creating a shadowy illusion in Tsavo East - we may only be a few weeks into 2024, but our pilots have already been treated to some spectacular sights while on patrol.

Image and words by Sheldrick Wildlife Trust

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A young Kenyan woman holds her pet deer in Mombasa, March 1909. Underwood and Underwood. | National Geographic

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Grace Tan - Refuge, 2013 (1.5 million polypropylene loop pins)

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a single moment in time can change everything

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Yma Sumac, a descendant of Atahualpa, the last Incan emperor, 1950's