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40 Days, acrylic, 14′’ x 11′’

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gosh but like we spent hundreds of years looking up at the stars and wondering “is there anybody out there” and hoping and guessing and imagining

because we as a species were so lonely and we wanted friends so bad, we wanted to meet other species and we wanted to talk to them and we wanted to learn from them and to stop being the only people in the universe

and we started realizing that things were maybe not going so good for us– we got scared that we were going to blow each other up, we got scared that we were going to break our planet permanently, we got scared that in a hundred years we were all going to be dead and gone and even if there were other people out there, we’d never get to meet them

and then

we built robots?

and we gave them names and we gave them brains made out of silicon and we pretended they were people and we told them hey you wanna go exploring, and of course they did, because we had made them in our own image

and maybe in a hundred years we won’t be around any more, maybe yeah the planet will be a mess and we’ll all be dead, and if other people come from the stars we won’t be around to meet them and say hi! how are you! we’re people, too! you’re not alone any more!, maybe we’ll be gone

but we built robots, who have beat-up hulls and metal brains, and who have names; and if the other people come and say, who were these people? what were they like?

the robots can say, when they made us, they called us discovery; they called us curiosity; they called us explorer; they called us spirit. they must have thought that was important.

and they told us to tell you hello.

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Rings

Alice Ruby Studio on Etsy

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“I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.” - Mary Oliver (via quotemadness)

via @quotemadness

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“When someone acts in a way you find disagreeable, understand that your hurt, anger, fear, or any strong emotion is how YOU have CHOSEN to process that person’s behavior. If you are unable or unwilling to notice that emotion and subsequently let go of it, then it is your self that is in need of attention. That person’s behavior has collided with something unfinished or unacknowledged in your life. Distress at the person’s behavior is your way of avoiding something inside of you.”

— Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, “You’ll See It When You Believe It”

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America is a Poor Country

Whenever I go back and forth between Europe and the States, a curious set of facts strikes me.

In London, Paris, Berlin, I hop on the train, head to the cafe — it’s the afternoon, and nobody’s gotten to work until 9am, and even then, maybe not until 10 — order a carefully made coffee and a newly baked croissant, do some writing, pick up some fresh groceries, maybe a meal or two, head home — now it’s 6 or 7, and everyone else has already gone home around 5 — and watch something interesting, maybe a documentary by an academic, the BBC’s Blue Planet, or a Swedish crime-noir. I think back on my day and remember the people smiling and laughing at the pubs and cafes.

In New York, Washington, Philadelphia, I do the same thing, but it is not the same experience at all.

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Particle

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I love potatoes. Mmmm.

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Catechism for a Witches Child

by J.L. Stanley

When they ask to see your gods your book of prayers show them lines drawn delicately with veins on the underside of a bird’s wing tell them you believe in giant sycamores mottled and stark against a winter sky and in nights so frozen stars crack open spilling streams of molten ice to earth and tell them how you drink a holy wine of honeysuckle on a warm spring day and of the softness of your mother who never taught you death was life’s reward but who believed in the earth and the sun and a million, million light years of being

©1986 J.L.Stanley

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Mini Gardens on the Move: Japanese Landscapers Transform Truck Beds Into Bucolic Worlds 

Once a year, landscape artists from across Japan gather to transform the beds of their miniature trucks into tiny, bucolic worlds.The Kei Tora is a type of small truck which takes its roots in japan, but can be found throughout Asia. As the practical vehicle is used primarily in the agricultural industry, the ‘Japan Federation of Landscape Contractors’ designated it as a canvas for its annual Kei truck garden contest.

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A pair of earth stars.(Geastrales)

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More D&D monster facts:

The age-old animosity between dwarves and ogres stems from a secret that ogres keep – namely, that dwarves are delicious. Ensuring that this secret does not spread is dwarfkind’s first priority, and the stereotype of ogres as compulsive cannibals has been cultivated primarily to ensure that nobody believes them when they try to explain.

The popular belief that kobolds are descended from dragons, though false, is not entirely without merit: in fact, dragons are descended from kobolds. The particulars of how this came about are poorly understood, as kobolds are disinclined to write things down, but alcohol is believed to have been a factor.

The creatures we think of as trolls are actually biological vehicles piloted by a race of very small, very quick humanoids. Trollish “regeneration” is nothing more than these creatures rushing about making speedy repairs; acid halts the process because occupational safety regulations prohibit the repair crews from working in the presence of chemical spills.

The reason all goblins look so similar is that there’s just the one goblin. In the face of mortal peril, it reflexively teleports as far from the threat as possible, in both space and time; thus entire civilisations have formed from the impossibly tangled timeline of a single immortal being. As a creature of a very short memory, it has no idea that this is the case.

There is no such thing as the tarrasque; the creature is a plausibly deniable fabrication employed to explain away the collateral damage of poor decisions by high-level adventuring parties.

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