“We have a memory cut in pieces. And I write trying to recover our real memory, the memory of humankind. But the human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.” - Eduardo Galeano
"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it is better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." - Marilyn Monroe
Illustration by Micheal Beyers
“Resistance and change begin in art.” - Ursula K Le Guin
Artwork by Fiona Staples in Saga.
Don’t get lost on this planet Earth. Things happen for a reason. - Artist William Tyler
“The search for life beyond Earth is not so much a search anymore if everything we are, we live on, interact with and observe is alive. Rather, it becomes an exploration of life’s expression of diversity and complexity– not in the universe but by the universe.” - Nathalie Cabrol
Painting by Simon Stalenhag.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-quantum-of-life/
"[The news] is like that friend you have — who always sees the worst in everything. You go out for coffee and feel empty afterward. Finally, you stop going. So what would be better? I make the case for routinely and systematically reporting out hope, agency and dignity in every story." — Amanda Ripley https://www.amandaripley.com/blog/i-have-a-secret-i-hid-it-for-years
“The greatest threat to democracy would never be an outside enemy but rather malefactors of great wealth who would steal our democracy from within”. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Illustration by Edel Rodriguez
This is the beginning of the healing from the addiction – the addiction to oil, the addiction to consumerism, the addiction to that lifestyle which leaves you strung out, feeling miserable and lonely. There is more work to be done. - Doug Good Feather
Words and images of others I find idiocyncratic, intriguing and inspirational.
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