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"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life."

-- T.S. Eliot, who died #OTD 1965

Poem by Billie Brooks

I've been told:
"It'll happen when you least expect it/aren't looking."

I stopped looking so long ago I can't even remember when it happened. It's a dumpster fire out there. And since I've given up, I definitely don't expect it.

people who say “why do we need [fine arts, humanities degrees, mid-budget films] when they don’t make a ton of money?” are insufferable. why do we need chrysanthemums? why do we need bonfires or baleen whales or the color blue? we just do. we just do.

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Friends are a necessity. We can survive without a lot of things, but not without friends. When everything and everyone else sucks, they show up to make you laugh and remind you that you're loved.

Blue skies
Smiling at me
Nothin but blue skies
Do I see....