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Meeting The Man: James Baldwin in Paris

(via Mubi)

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i really fucking hate my family. i hate my parents. i hate my brothers. i've already done my time. why do i have to suffer through theirs too?

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is there no way out? thoughts and prayers useless, and people don't want to lose the material comforts they have. in the end, our indulgences truly prevent us from moving forward.

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pink phalaenopsis orchid

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There are some bad bitches on here but I am too busy with my theories

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English added by me :)

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why are y'all like actually stupid it kind of makes me sad I'm actually like losing a little hope for the world as a whole because you people are just dumb as rocks which is sad because I want to love humanity and all but you people make it so hard maybe it's because some of you just aren't real like I honestly just don't know how else to explain this other than you are one of god's many tests that the rest of us normal people with brains and souls just have to deal with or something like I'd genuinely love to know

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🌼 Monet planted the water lilies before he painted them. Monet organized his property at Giverny as though it were a huge painting. Thanks to a small army of gardeners, he diverted a river, planted water lilies, exotic flowers, weeping willows, bamboo trees, and willows. He seeded the pond and added enclosures with white chickens, ducks, and pheasants. Nature, recomposed by the artist, began to resemble his art. "My finest masterpiece," he later said, "is my garden." 🌼

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“My thoughts are tired. I am not seeing things freshly, but rather in a pedestrian, lifeless way. It is as if a flame had gone out and I must wait until it starts to burn again by itself.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Nachlass, MS 102 (13 January 1915)

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from the people who brought you “we live in a society”

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"Americans can't deal with death unless they own it. If they own it, they will celebrate it, like in the air force base museum of the atomic bomb, where whole families of camera-toting tourists gather after the required i.d. security checks. In the gray-carpeted rooms, they walk the mazes of portable screens and platforms and enlarged photographs of death and incineration as seen from a discreet distance. The distance is far enough so you can't see the bodies, only the architecture."

David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives, 1991

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English added by me :)

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Idk the terrible thing is not that nobody cares but that so many people care so much and it simply doesn't matter

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thinking about june jordan saying that in the context of tragedy all polite behavior is a form of denial

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i think about this interaction all the time

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btw archive dot org is SUCH a treasury when it comes to out-of-print poetry anthologies… i am having the time of my life, truly ❣️

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A tea "gangster"

This is the gongfu method of brewing tea (功夫茶藝):

刮沫 (gua1mo4) Rotating the tilted lid around the outer edge of the cup to remove foam

搓茶 (cuo1cha2) Rotating the lid around the inside to press on the tea leaves and release their fragrance

搖香 (yao2xiang1) Putting the lid on, then tilting and turning the whole cup to let the excess spill out

入海 (ru4hai3) Pouring out the tea (first onto the "tea pet", then after refilling, into teacups)

蝶舞 (die2wu3) Turning over the saucer and place the cup on top

(There are more steps but OP didn't do them)