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nobeerreviews · 9 months

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Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.

-- Douglas Pagels

(Manarola, Italy)

#living #joy of living #life paths #douglas pagels #travel photography #life #manarola #Italy #quote

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strawberriessandcigarettes · 11 months

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sometimes i sit in my balcony and think about the point of life and human existence and then I eat a mango or hug my mom or go to the beach or watch modern family or sing to my dog or bake cookies with my friends or clean my room or read a Ocean Vuong book or listen to Okinawa by 92914 or take a nap under the sky or watch a Wong Kar-wai film or have the most perfect soul healing meal or fall in love five times a week or feel the breeze through my hair and it all makes sense.

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zarabella73 · 1 year

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#joy of living

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soulmusicsongs · 7 months

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Joy Of Living - Effi Duke's Love Band (Joy Of Living, 1980)

#Soul #Soul Music #Soul Music Songs #Music #Music Songs #Effi Duke's Love Band #Joy Of Living #EMI #Youtube

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the-ephemeral-ethereal · 1 year

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The joy of living, its beauty is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.

from Children of Dune by Frank Herbert

#children of dune #dune #dune book #dune fandom #frank herbert #the joy of living #joy of living #joy of life #the beauty of living #beauty of living #beauty of life #life can surprise #life can surprise you #life will surprise you

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aym-nowen · 1 year

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Pleasure and Uneasiness About Being in New Orleans

Not sure if that's grammatically correct.

I am a little uneasy living in a city that is probably the gun murder capital of the world. (As it is apparently the murder capital of America).

I really enjoy the quiet here in New Orleans, but I'm constantly wondering if I'm going to get shot, because I see it so much in the news. The quiet was surprising to me, as everyone said this city is loud. It reminds me of France in this way, with the riverfront park full of families partying and playing music on a humid, sunny Saturday.

I haven’t been to a city in America yet where I've liked the parks. I checked out the parks of New York City — BLESSED BE BUSHWICK, look up Maria Hernandez Park and you’ll see why — Philadelphia — the Wissahickon seems beautiful and I only explored the TIP of it in the winter when all the trees were sleeping — Hawai’i’s Big Island — you don’t picnic easily on lava rock/spiky grass and with mosquitos that eat you alive, to which I believe I am allergic — and Los Angeles — spectacular super bloom this year but don’t let the aesthetics of the Instagram posts fool you. It is fucking loud over there. So many cars. So much agitated, on-the-go energy. BZZZ BZZZ BZZZ.

I love the pace of New Orleans, which seems too good to be true. Slow driving, small roads. An open-air street trolley, warm wind caressing my face. Colorful buildings, majestic old trees covered in vines. Trees everywhere. A beautiful French quarter, once you get to the quieter streets and can actually observe calmly. I can hear cicadas in the park, and an occasional crow cackling into the humid hot air, which feels like being constantly wrapped in a blanket, or being back in the womb.

I do wonder about the safety of the buildings here. I am currently Couchsurfing and the apartment’s floor slopes downward until you get to my room, which has three beautiful large windows. Cars barely pass by on the street. It’s pretty quiet, though I can hear a rush of cars in the distance. My hearing and body in general are very sensitive, so I’m trying to find a nice place to live where I don’t feel stressed out. I feel the building wobble sometimes when I or my host walks around. In my last post I talked about how the institutional HARD ROCK HOTEL crumbled and killed people. I wonder if I am living in a city that doesn’t protect its people. Europe felt so safe to me, so safe. We had a social system, and Daddy Government did a better job at honoring the social contract (between taxpayers and tax collectors and managers — aka the government).

I keep reading about people, mothers, getting murdered here, and I’m wondering what’s the whole story. A few days ago I read that the tenth woman has been shot dead this year.

Why are mothers getting murdered? Do people have no respect? What values do people live by here? In Hawai’i, it was “Aloha Spirit” which kept people from killing one another. I think about and notice these things, the values and myths which keep people from descending into flesh-eating “anarchy” in every place I’ve lived. (Though I am interested in anarchy as a form of collective living.) I’m also interested in the norms on social media and how trust can be formed with others over the internet, when you are one of the unfortunate digital nomads who keeps up a sense of community through the Internet. And yet here I am, writing for your eyeballs, instead of creating connections with the people who surround me…. Ta Ta for Now…

#new orleans #louisiana #deep south #daddygovernment #anarchy #systems #sociology #anthropology #murder capital #joy of living

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delicious-dream-before-the-storm · 2 years

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Egyptian Shampoo…

puts on sound 📣🎶🎵🎵🎵🎵

#humor #Joy of living #shampoo #less teeth #beautiful video #Music

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cedarlili · 2 years

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Joyful Outlook

I’ve been making joy in my life, recently. I have always tried for this, and there’s been seasons it was a lot harder to do than others. This one? It’s pretty easy, to be honest. The sun is shining, as it is more days than not here in Texas. Sure, it’s hot out there, but it’s comfortable inside. I can look out my office window and watch my husband sitting comfortably and reading in the shade. My…

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#a hopeful outlook #book discussion #Book Reviews #coddling of the american mind #First Frontier #joy of living #Madness and Memory #making joy #reading

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hack-saw2004 · 10 days

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platforming palestinian joy is just as important as sharing the suffering they're enduring during this genocide. despite continued displacement and bombardment, you cannot steal their joy and spirit. happy birthday to this sweet baby 🖤🇵🇸 may they grow up to see a free palestine

edit: @saffronlesbian made a video description for this post!!

[vd: a screen recording of a tweet from the 20th of April 2024 with 2.5 million views, from Ruhi @/ruhi_hi. the caption reads, "This video of this little Palestinian angel celebrating his bday in a refugee camp" followed by three emoji of a smiling face with teary eyes. the video clip is 11 seconds long and shows a one-year-old baby seated on the sandy ground, smiling hugely and clapping his hands while people sing to him from offscreen and a large cake is placed in front of him. stuck into the top of the cake is a decoration that reads "happy birthday" in english. the video has the tiktok handle @/ibrahim.jamal99 visible in it. /end vd.]

#free palestine #end aid to israel #current events #palestine genocide #let gaza live #save palestine #end the genocide #end the occupation #joy as an act of resistance #boycott divest sanction #from the river to the sea #free palestine in our lifetime #mourn the dead and fight like hell for the living #no one is free until we are all free #palestine will be free #dont stop talking about palestine

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bizarreaizen · 1 year

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real homies respect trans people!

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oh-sunny-sun · 29 days

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― 開花 ―

本日

気持ちよく晴れた午後早くにて.

2024年4月2日火曜日

― Beginning to Bloom ―

It was a pleasantly sunny day, early in the afternoon.

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

#photo sketches #blooming #cherry blossoms #spring has come #changing seasons #joy of living #small lives #春の訪れ #桜 #生きる歓び #季節の花 #季節の移ろい

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lorillee · 1 year

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it actually makes me so sad there are some people who havent seen fireflies irl like. come with me. let me show you. lets go out in the yard at 8 in the evening and catch fireflies together

#PLEASEEEEEE i cannot imagine living like that........... where is your whimsical joy and wonder....#lorillee.txt

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twinkandwink · 6 months

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Blueboy haven't played together for 30 years but they came out tonight to celebrate the launch of @jane_duffus book on the history of Sarah Records - These Things Happen.

Really sweet acoustic set. Here's The Joy of Living (full version)

Blueboy - Rough Trade, Bristol 11th Oct 2023