my CBD bath bomb quote today lol .... 😂😂😆😆
“Hold on to what is good, even if it is a handful of earth. Hold on to what you believe, even if it is a tree which stands by itself. Hold on to what you must do, even if it is a long way from here. Hold on to life, even when it is easier letting go. Hold on to my hand, even when I have gone away from you.”
Nancy Wood
Franz Dvorak - The Angel of the Birds, 1910.
“Life is not the way it is supposed to be. It is the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference. ” ~ Virginia Satir
Art by Elvi Maarni
Wong Lew Song translates literally as "Frosted Yellow Willows" but has been interpreted as "Second-Daughter Yellow Butterfly." The girl's family gave her the English-language name Anna May. A third-generation American, she managed to have a substantial acting career during a deeply racist time when the taboo against miscegenation meant that Caucasian actresses were cast as "Oriental" women in lead parts opposite Caucasian leading men.
Since its publication in 1931, Wong had made known her desire to play O-lan in a film version of the book "The Good Earth", and as early as 1933, Los Angeles newspapers were touting Wong as the best choice for the part.
Nevertheless, the studio apparently never seriously considered Wong for the role because Paul Muni, an actor of European descent, was to play O-lan's husband, Wang Lung, and the Hays Code prohibited portraying miscegenation on camera (although both the characters were Chinese, the actors not being of the same race risked running afoul of the Code). The Chinese government also advised the studio against casting Wong in the role. The Chinese advisor to MGM commented: "Whenever she appears in a movie, the newspapers print her picture with the caption 'Anna May again loses face for China."
According to Wong, she was instead offered the part of Lotus, a deceitful song girl who helps to destroy the family and seduces the family's oldest son. Wong refused the role, telling MGM head of production Irving Thalberg, "If you let me play O-lan, I will be very glad. But you're asking me—with Chinese blood—to do the only unsympathetic role in the picture featuring an all-American cast portraying Chinese characters."
The role Wong hoped for in the 1937 film went to Luise Rainer, who won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance. Wong's sister, Mary Liu Heung Wong, appeared in the film in the role of the Little Bride. MGM's refusal to consider Wong for this most high-profile of Chinese characters in U.S. film is remembered today as "one of the most notorious cases of casting discrimination in the 1930s." (IMDb/Wikipedia)
Happy Birthday, Anna May Wong!
@stormydaycuddle 🤣🤣🤣
She is ideas, feelings, urges, and memory. She has been lost and half forgotten for a long, long time. She is the source, the light, the night, the dark, and daybreak. She is the smell of good mud and the back leg of the fox. The birds which tell us secrets belong to her. She is the voice that says :"This way, this way."
( ✍️ Clarissa Pinkola Estes -"The White Goddess" )
Artwork : Anne Stokes
Can't remember who posted about this calendar, but today:
@MissAdventurous I get in trouble for that a ton. 😂😂😂
It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig. Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me. When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic. No rhetoric, no tremolos, no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell. And of course, no theology, no metaphysics. Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling, on tiptoes and no luggage, not even a sponge bag, completely unencumbered.
Aldous Huxley, Island
Ophelia’s madnesses has in paintings... Shakespeare gives us very little information from which to imagine a past for Ophelia. She appears in only five of the play’s 20 scenes, and her tragedy is subordinated to that of Hamlet.
It is impossible to reconstruct Ophelia’s biography from the text. According to the critic Lee Edwards, ‘we can imagine Hamlet’s story without Ophelia, but Ophelia literally has no story without Hamlet’.
Yet Ophelia is the most represented of Shakespeare’s heroines in painting, literature and popular culture. Over the past 400 years, she has moved from the margins to the centre of post-Shakespearean discourse, increasingly becoming a female counterpart to Hamlet as a portrait of conflict and stress.
In recent years, she has become a strong feminist heroine, even surviving Hamlet in some fictional versions of the story, to lead a life of her own.
@MissAdventurous Reminds me of a meme I'll never find again
"Want to go out?" "I have a boyfriend." "You deserve TWO boyfriends."
One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.
When things go wrong as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all up hill, When the funds are low and the debts are high And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest if you must, but don't you quit. Life is strange with its twists and turns As every one of us sometimes learns And many a failure comes about When he might have won had he stuck it out; Don't give up though the pace seems slow , You may succeed with another blow. Success is failure turned inside out The silver tint of the clouds of doubt, And you never can tell just how close you are, It may be near when it seems so far; So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit It's when things seem worst that you must not quit .. ~ John Greenleaf Whittier ~
Artist Credit : Tanielle Childers