Wineglasses, antique vases, Humpty Dumpty, hip bones, hearts: what breaks quickly generally mends slowly, if at all.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one?intcid=mod-most-popular

Hokusai

Marrakesh Express :)

YAY

Piropos cubanos

"Si cocinas como caminas, me comiera hasta la raspa"

Brahma - Emerson

If the red slayer think he slays,

      Or if the slain think he is slain,

They know not well the subtle ways

      I keep, and pass, and turn again.

Far or forgot to me is near;

      Shadow and sunlight are the same;

The vanished gods to me appear;

      And one to me are shame and fame.

They reckon ill who leave me out;

      When me they fly, I am the wings;

I am the doubter and the doubt,

      I am the hymn the Brahmin sings.

The strong gods pine for my abode,

      And pine in vain the sacred Seven;

But thou, meek lover of the good!

      Find me, and turn thy back on heaven.

Invictus - WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY

Out of the night that covers me,

      Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

      For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

      I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

      My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

      Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

      Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

      How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate,
      I am the captain of my soul.

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READ THIS

"Our Symptoms, Ourselves"
Alexandra Kimball, Hazlitt
November 29, 2012

“It is as if she lives each moment twice: first through direct experience, and then through the lens of a perceived non-crazy other.” This is Alexandra Kimball’s description of her friend Rebecca, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2006. In this piece, Kimball looks at Mad Pride, a movement begun in Toronto in 1993 that aims to celebrate mental illness, looking to empower those suffering from it, instead of stigmatizing them. For Kimball’s friend, the mere idea of being labeled with a condition alters her reality and “compels her to distinguish her ‘real’ feelings from her symptoms.” Yet movements like Mad Pride, as progressive as they are, also rely on a patient’s ability to be a part of a community. That ability may depend on access to a functioning and affordable health care system, like Canada’s, which is committed to the treatment of mental illness.

oh wow

Flashmob at an unemployment office in Madrid...

oh this is so funny

Gimme Shelter (1970)

REAL LIFE BAMBI AND THUMPER SHNUGGLES

Bora Bora

Ozymandias Melancholia

also, cicatrix

New York, New York

Times Square, 1900

TUNES! 80's edition (ok so queen was '79 but whatever)

confession: BLOWN. I once dated a man significantly older than me (didn't end well) whose resemblance to Freddie Mercury in that video is UNCANNY. Uhh...