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Honestly ‘home’ is any place I can keep my books and walk around naked.

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We can’t jump off bridges anymore because our iPhones will get ruined. We can’t take skinny dips in the ocean, because there’s no service on the beach and adventures aren’t real unless they’re on Instagram. Technology has doomed the spontaneity of adventure and we’re helping destroy it every time we Google, check-in, and hashtag.

Jeremy Glass, We Can’t Get Lost Anymore (via blua)

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Sentimental Smoke
— Photo by Brandi Swarms

Sentimental Smoke

— Photo by Brandi Swarms

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying, and no more.

Gore Vidal

“As all the ships go down:‘There is more than one good way to drown.” — Sylvia Plath

“As all the ships go down:
‘There is more than one good way to drown.” — Sylvia Plath

Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he’d had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother’s shoulder, and said, ‘Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.’

Anne Lamott: Bird by Bird

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use — silence, exile, and cunning.

James Joyce

If you see something you’ve seen before, don’t click the shutter.

Alexey Brodovitch’s advice to Diane Arbus before she began street photography

What is your favorite word?”
“And. It is so hopeful.

An interview with Margaret Atwood

(via floriental)

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Balancing the congregation.

Balancing the congregation.