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Reminds me of Jackson Pollock! Even cooler, visit Miltos Manetas (2003) “Splatter” and create your own! This did get me thinking though. What if we could replay our life’s events in slow motion? To see the gradual eruption of a child’s giggle or the breaking of a human heart. I wonder how we might interact with others and the world around us if we were able to capture all those nuances and gestures we miss.

all things leave, just like
all things change. now
pick yourself up and begin.
once you have learned
how to walk over
your insecurities,
your pain will not matter,
nothing will hurt you.

your heart can still be
a beautiful place.

~ r.m. drake

“You can’t accomplish anything without the possibility of failure.” And I’m not talking about it. I’m here. I’m waiting. Thank you Alex for sharing 🙂

he said
‘my absence is strong and warm.
it will hold
you.
it will teach you how to miss.
how to be without.
and how to survive anyway’.

— how my father raised me

~ by nayyirah waheed in salt.

And how are we documenting it? Begin by finding a place where you may explore and demonstrate that inner eccentric self. Like New York! Good advice. Thank you Maira Kalman.

By endurance we conquer. ~ Shackleton family motto.

Spent some time in the city yesterday. Visited the Vancouver Art Gallery’s new exhibit MASHUP. To be honest, I’ve struggled connecting with modern art. It may be because I spent my formative years roaming the New York Met as opposed to the MOMA. Modern art is a tease though. Here’s a crazy chair. Looks cool huh? Want to sit in it? Can’t. Want to touch it? Can’t. So many lines indicating boundaries of where I’m instructed to disconnect. And the dark suits and eyes that follow me as if they know my fingertips fancy running across Rodin’s sculptures. I want more experiences like Stefan Sagmeister’s The Happy Show . I want to be invited, even encouraged, to engage and contribute to the artist’s space, thoughts, impressions, and work. Art is far from linear and passive and yet is so often presented as such…hmmm…

We shall need a substantially new way of thinking if humanity is to survive. ~ Einstein

The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man. In reality, however, the question is what is his attitude to the world and all life that comes within his reach. A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, and that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. ~ Albert Schweitzer (1949)

“You have been given this life, not to endure it – but to experience it and to find all the ways in which you can challenge your brains, your guts, your heart, in every shape and form – come low or high water. It is yours to live and only yours that you will ever understand..” (anonymous)

Thank you Taneem for sharing!