"The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory." Jorge Luis Borges

“If your biggest achievement this year was simply making it this far, simply waking up in the mornings when you didn’t want to, simply surviving – that’s something to celebrate too. That is also an accomplishment. Please, whatever you do, don't compare your reality to someone 🧵

When I was a child, my mom didn’t teach us Keres, our native language. Her years of punishment for speaking it were too painful. So it's personal to me that our Living Languages Grant program helps Native youth learn their families' sacred languages. bia.gov/service/grants…

A beautiful passage from Carl Jung.

The world, I've come to think is like the surface of a frozen lake. We walk along, we slip, we try to keep our balance and not to fall. One day there is a crack, and so we learn that underneath us is an unimaginable depth.~James Joyce, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘥

I had a little emotional moment last night. As I was writing about the Arlington Cemetery incident, a wave came crashing down on me, and my eyes welled up with tears. That soon gave way to that painful sound a man makes when he lets loose with a deep, soul wrecking groan that

Tears, sorrow, and disappointment are bitter, but wisdom is the comforter in all psychic suffering.~CG Jung, 𝘔𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘴

In a new Weekend Essay, Ted Chiang argues that artificial intelligence can’t make real art. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/-UQFZr

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.~Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘺𝘵𝘩

#WereNotGoingBack

Ethan Hawke on why we need art, brilliant

Why is a book like “Heroine” important? Because opioid overdoses affect millions. “Whenever I speak on this book, someone tells me ‘this is my brother, my dad, my sister, my daughter, my cousin’,” says author Mindy McGinnis #VelshiBannedBookClub #Velshi msnbc.com/ali-velshi/wat…

DREAM OF FISHING WITH JAKOB BOEHME In the dream I am fishing in a great lake, but I’m having no luck, and I’m seeing no fish moving. An elderly man comes over to talk; intuitively I know he is the 17th century mystic Jakob Boehme. He offers to help me catch a fish. As we stand

“Sometimes you don’t survive whole, you just survive in part. But the grandeur of life is that attempt. It’s not about that solution. It is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances.” — Toni Morrison✨❤️

Wise words from Marion Woodman.

The more insecure the ego, the less it can tolerate differences, bear ambivalences. Thus fundamentalisms and militant groups of all kinds are fed by streams of fear and a violent need to dissociate from the otherness that lies within each of us.~James Hollis, Hauntings

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Maggi Hambling, Portrait of Dorothy Hodgkin, 1985, British chemist who deciphered the structure of insulin among many other major achievements, and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 #WomensArt

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