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The Period Poem

#streetgoats

Street Goat - Crowd Funding Campaign Film from Joanne Barker on Vimeo.

Emtithal Mahmoud

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting --
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

By Mary Oliver.

H/T to young mr Nicholas Mulvey. 

faraway nearby

"Like many others who turned into writers, I disappeared into books when I was very young, disappeared into them like someone running into the woods. What surprised and still surprises me is that there was another side to the forest of stories and the solitude, that I came out the other side and met people there.

 Writers are solitaries by vocation and necessity. I sometimes think the test is not so much talent, which is not as rare as people think, but purpose or vocation, which manifests in part as the ability to endure a lot of solitude and keep working. Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in that act that is so intimate and yet so alone."

Rebecca Solnit - The Faraway Nearby

farmhack

Surfergirls

This really nice short on 3 very different women who surf in NYC is dedicated to my very own surfer girl gang who escape to the waves every weekend. Even though I've only been out twice with them, I get it. I really get it. 

AWAY (short film) from Elisa Bates on Vimeo.

The Severn Project

The Severn Project from Mark Whatmore, Yoho Media on Vimeo.

E15

dream boats

the seven fingers

KT

I've said it more than once, and I'll say it again. Many times. This girl's a prophet. 

fka twigs

the overview effect

...In savikalpa samadhi the mind is conscious only of the Spirit within; it is not conscious of the exterior world. The body is in a trancelike state, but the consciousness is fully perceptive of its blissful experience within....

Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, has compared the experience of seeing the earth from space, also known as the overview effect, to savikalpa samadhi.

(via Wikipedia)

Saul Williams - Not In Our Name (The Pledge of Resistance)

bleed

by the amazing Dominique Christina.

#FreeAJstaff

Today is indeed a dark day for journalism. Three members of Al Jazeera english have been trialled and sentenced to more than 7 years each in Egypt, for "endangering Egypt's national security."

Read more in the Guardian and follow the discussion on twitter.

This news reminded me mainly of two things. The documentary 'War Photographer' on the inspirational photographer James Nachtwey, and this TED lecture from journalist Janine di Giovanni 'What I saw in the war'.

And again...

Kate Tempest: Hopelessly Devoted