'Once every people in the world believed that trees were divine … and that deer, and ravens and foxes, and wolves and bears, and clouds and pools, almost all things under the sun and moon, and the sun and moon, were not less divine …' W.B. Yeats
“Deep down, part of us knows the mystery still exists. The part of us that yearns to set off alone one day into the dark woods — not, as when we were young, to test ourselves against the dangerous old woman who lives there, but one day perhaps to become her.”
~ Sharon Blackie
Art by Wendy Andrew www.paintingdreams.co.uk
“If you wish to become a philosopher, the first thing to realise is that most people go through life with a whole world of beliefs that have no sort of rational justification, and that one man’s world of beliefs is apt to be incompatible with another man’s, so that they cannot both be right. People’s opinions are mainly designed to make them feel comfortable; truth, for most people is a secondary consideration.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Art of Philosophizing and other Essays (1942)
“I'll have what she's having." -- Estelle Reiner in When Harry Met Sally
"People only love you, if it's convenient for them"
World famous quote by me 😂
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
My sweet kitty passed away unexpectedly few weeks ago. Got this from our vet clinic today.
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"My mother's name will only appear in texts or in conversations because she was my mother--the mother of a man who inexplicably became famous. I want you to know, however, that my mother was a great artist, a powerful artist who poured creativity and ingenuity and brilliance into raising her children, infusing us all with imagination and the ability--with no paranormal influences--to remove ourselves, to lift our bodies and our minds, from locations and situations that were brutal. That is art, and if we studied people like my mother, there would be shelves of books on her work with her children, her friends, her small circle of enchanted friends. Tennessee's mother was like this. I bet yours is too.
"The artistic suicide is not only the drug-addicted actor; the alcoholic singer; the writer who makes bad choice after bad choice. Artistic suicide, like charity, begins at home. We kill the artists within ourselves in the quest to get by, to walk within the lines, to mind our manners.
"Write about that."
--Marlon Brando/Interview with James Grissom
EDIT: NOT ME, ALL IS JUST A SHORT STORY. 💘
I recently posted about “Carrot Man” and realised after reading the comments that not everyone knew about him! Well, here is the original story: “I have seen this man before, I mean how do you miss a man carrying a giant carrot?! But i’ve never been able to catch him! Today I did and what a legend he is!
“I have to ask, why do you always carry a giant carrot around?”
Nathan
“To make people smile… You see, one day I went to an op shop and I bought a giant turnip. I was carrying it home and noticed how much it made people smile. That made me feel really good! So I decided to try carrying other giant things around. I carried a giant octopus and a giant squid… then I made the giant carrot and carried it around town and I noticed a big difference. The diversity of people smiling and the number of people smiling was much greater. So I just kept carrying the carrot around because it was the most successful thing at making people smile. Personally I would have loved to keep carrying the squid but it was the carrot that everyone loved… I’m on a disability pension, you see, and this is my way of giving back. I’m a part of the community, putting smiles on people’s faces. Like today for instance, I was at home watching a DVD, and I just thought, ‘Nah, I’m going to go out and make hundreds of people smile instead with the carrot.’ Last year there was a big protest at Parliament, right wing people and anti-racism people and I was at home watching it on TV thinking ‘how awful, this could end up in a riot.’ So I picked up my carrot and wandered down. It worked so well, people started smiling when they saw me and the carrot and I think it helped calm them down. I try to get out as often as possible but you have to be in the mood to do something like this… today I’ve been out here for about an hour and a half and I’ve had hundreds and hundreds of smiles. This is what’s so good about it, if I want to do something good I just grab the carrot and head on out.
Keep on carrying that carrot Nathan! You make Melbourne a better place.”