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“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward.
There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lay defeat and death.”
~Nelson Mandela from Long Walk to Freedom
Photo by Daniel Hoherd / Flickr, cc by-nc 2.0
“I love stories. Stories have saved my life, and I also question stories even as I tell them…We all have stories to tell…It’s the complexity of the human heart that I think is poetry’s subject — the complexity of the human experience. I think the best poets writing today represent that complexity in the broadest, deepest sense.”
~Marie Howe from an interview with AGNI photo by Tony Roberts / Flickr, cc by-nc-sa 2.0
So important.
James Blake - A Case Of You (Joni Mitchell cover) (by jamesblakeproduction)

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Illustration by Garth Williams for The Cricket in Times Square
One of my favorite books ever. I can still remember it being read aloud to me. Love.
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In the ecological age, we are beginning to understand that we are connected beings, that the welfare of any species or people is aligned with our own. I think the ultimate purpose of Occupy Wall Street, or the great archetype it taps into, is the revolution of love. If the 99% defeat the 1%, they will like the Bolsheviks ultimately create a new 1% in their place. So let us not defeat them; let us open them and invite them to join us. ” ~ Charles Eisenstein
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Process.