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Hasn't someone even said something about looking at gift horses?

A Gift Horse full of Zombies 🧟‍♂️

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Here we are!

We are children of the Universe.

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A Gr8 day to be out and about in America.

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Hey check out my things, maybe you can find your thing, or help me out some love or purchase, as you are able

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Nice one

I’ve been fortunate enough to capture some amazing birds, both big and small, over the last few years, but this one right here is my new favorite. So much so, I’ve entered it into this year’s cover photo contest with New Jersey Monthly and Unique Photo.

Check out the mock-up 👇

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Apparently April is Poetry Month.

So write or read something new today.

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Where is the penalty Marquez 93 for riding with rip in his leathers?

luca marini and co watch on as chaos ensues at us gp

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Shop got updated with new things! Fancy notebooks are finally back ;u;

www.gdbee.store or click here

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This will ignored like all the rest of the court orders

https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/judge-says-park-service-reinstate-fired-employees-20220040.php

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I think about this a lot:

I have a subscription to Architectural Digest. I've had it for years. A friend got it for me as a gift the year that I was writing "Next Big Thing" and I've kept it because I love it. It's just really pretty pictures and I am very interested in interior design and don't do anything with it for my actual career, so I enjoy really thinking about these things. It's something I like.

Anyway, the houses profiled in these magazines, of course, almost always belong to rich people, but what's striking to me is how many of these people are rich people no one's ever heard of. They're not movie stars or anything, they're just, like, people who inherited a bunch of generational wealth. And these people who grew up rich, what do all of them do? Artistic careers. Not famous artistic careers, but they're the ones who are like, indulging a hobby for interior design or flower arranging or watercolors or whatever. Except we don't call it "indulging a hobby" because they're all doing it for a career because it doesn't actually matter if they make any money because they were born rich lol. It's "what they do" even though if they had to make an actual living off of it, it would never fly. They host little pop-up shops with beautifully curated inventory and design patterns for fabric and wallpaper and make stained glass windows and a million random things like this. And they in theory do this for a job while living in a multimillion-dollar New York City brownstone filled with expensive modern art. And then it'll come out that their dad founded a hedge fund or something and you're like, ohhhhh, that's how you're pulling off your lifestyle with a job that's "creating limited edition cloth napkins."

Now I understand that partly this is the kind of magazine that is really only going to profile artistic people, because that's its focus, but what it really makes me realize is how the most important requirement if you want to create art as a grown-up is that you be born with enough money to not have to worry about how you're going to live day-to-day. I mean, of course there are people who work full-time as artists who weren't born rich, but wow, does it make it way easier to indulge all of your artistic impulses when you're not ground down by debt and working around the clock to pay for food. It's not just a matter of it giving you the time to indulge but also giving you the brain space to be creative, the energy to do these things. The capability to create beauty in some way is within every single person, and the thing that makes a difference is often jut income bracket.

Like, if we were really serious about maximizing creative productivity in our society, it's so obvious we'd give everyone enough income to live on, and then you could just sit back and watch art and creativity bloom in a plethora of different ways. Humanity could be so amazing if everyone was allowed just live.

But that's obviously not what we want as a society.

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y o u a r e n o t a l o n e .

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bobtail squid 💫

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24-2-25

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Sci-fi cover art by Peter Goodfellow from the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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I love pelicans and I love osprey. This is just eFed up!

I've seen bald eagles harassing osprey for a fish but this is a first.