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Frank O’Hara, from Meditations in an Emergency

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Dream Walk, Helen Frankenthaler, 1977

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Fluorite and Quartz

Locality: Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan Province, China (Peoples Republic)

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Mame @ Kenzo fw 17!

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1. Emotions do not have opposites. They oscillate as the crest and trough of a wave and so, they are part of the same harmonic motion; the same wave nonetheless.

2. The theory of tragedy states that a catastrophe is necessary for resolution in a plot. Without catastrophe, the anxiety of a plot is never addressed. If you were lucky enough to survive a tragedy, you must tell your story.

3. But sometimes there’s nothing wrong with silence.

4. Envisioning my future is difficult because it necessitates reimagining my past. And this requires courage.

5. I don’t want to discuss (my) mental health unless we can have a sincere conversation on the dents caused in our well-being by the economic.

6. Self-care ≠ self-indulgence.

7. Sexual pleasure ≠ liberation neither empowerment.

7-a. Empowerment, specifically in terms of feminist politics, is not a state of emotion but material condition. i.e. one must be able to live empowerment in concrete politico-economic terms, without social or state intervention. It must not be simply limited it to a set of feelings. Empowerment must have constant structural and social support. Under neoliberal logic, we assume that we can buy empowerment and wear it like an article of clothing - it’s just that easy, we are told. But it isn’t. And the interrogation of this mentality is absolutely necessary.

8. Schools injure a warm part of our curiosity and language but higher academia just kills it.

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7.26.17 // Details of The Immaculate Conception by Cristobal de Villalpando at the Met.

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Opal

Locality:  Cervenica, Presov Co, Presov Region, Slovakia, Europe

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The brain-disease model overlooks four fundamental truths: (1) our capacity to destroy one another is matched by our capacity to heal one another. Restoring relationships and community is central to restoring well-being; (2) language gives us the power to change ourselves and others by communicating our experiences, helping us to define what we know, and finding a common sense of meaning; (3) we have the ability to regulate our own physiology, including some of the so-called involuntary functions of the body and brain, through such basic activities as breathing, moving, and touching; and (4) we can change social conditions to create environments in which children and adults feel safe and where they can thrive.

Bessel van der Kolk in “The Body Keeps The Score” (via widewaterwoman)

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GEMSTONES Proyecto experimental

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one of the positives of having a bipolar brain is the way i perceive the world differently during manic episodes. the colors are brighter, the details more clear, the auras more noticeable and i’m interested in it all! the world is shiny and it all makes sense. not like a delusion or hallucination, just a shift in consciousness. 

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Fluorite

Locality: Xianghualing Mine, Hunan Province, China (Peoples Republic)