journhi:
Little toy cars in the pavement :) (Taken with Instagram)
Capture the present; before you know it, it’ll be the past.
(Source: journhi)
“
Your body is white like sand
in which children never played
your eyes beautiful and sad
like illustrated flowers in a schoolbook
wisps of your hair fall
like smoke from Cain’s sacrifice;
I must kill my brother
my brother must kill me.
— Yehuda Amichai - Songs for a Woman
Uncertainty
Everyday I’m at a crossroads. And everyday I wind up asking myself these questions:
“What am I doing with my life?”
“Will my company be successful?”
“Should I go back to school?”
“Can I build something lasting?”
There are many things I don’t know and even more that I’m discovering I don’t know, but also so many things that I’ve figured out.
“We have something amazing to offer others.”
“We’ve come such a long way. Look at us just a year ago.”
“Pain and growth often come hand-in-hand.”
“We are appreciated and loved.”
Those truths are more powerful than any fear of uncertainty and are what motivate me to keep going.
“And in the big cities, protestors blocked the roads like
a blocked heart, whose master will die. And the dead were already
hung out like fruit, for eternal ripening within
the history of the world. They searched for the child; and found
pairs of lovers, hidden; found ancient urns;
found everything that sought not to be revealed. For love
was too short and didn’t cover them all, like a too-short
blanket. A head or two feet stuck out in the wind
when the cold night came. Or they found a short-cut of sharp
brief pain instead of the long, oblivion-causing
streets of joy and of satiation. And at night
the names of the world, of foreign cities and dark
lakes and peoples long vanished.”
— Yehuda Amichai - The Elegy on the Lost Child
A Few Simple (And Not So Simple) Things
- Be sensitive to other people’s feelings.
- Don’t discredit other’s ideas right away. Understand before forming an opinion.
- Don’t be petty.
- Your time isn’t more (or less) important that anyone else’s.
- Don’t sweat the small stuff.
- Don’t keep track of every debt or mistake.
- Participate!
- Always give people 100% of your attention.
- Offer encouragement. Only criticize when asked.
- Getting angry accomplishes nothing.
- Love yourself.
- Discover your passions.
- Don’t dwell on mistakes. Overcome.
- “How are you doing?” is more important that “What are you doing?”
- Find value in all things.
- Step back and look at the big picture every now and then.
- Laugh off insults.
- You don’t need to have the last word.
- Two things define you: 1) your patience when you have nothing 2) your attitude when you have everything.
- Don’t fear being hurt.
- Don’t chase love, affection, or attention. Those should be freely given.
- Do good and don’t expect anything in return.
- Do what you say you’ll do; be where you say you’ll be.
- …
To my best friend,
You’ve taught me to be vulnerable and encouraged me to share my thoughts with the world. Here’s my second try at that…
Chicco
Amazing cover of Ed Sheeran’s The A Team by Priska.
Chilling lyrics are matched with a powerful yet seasoned voice; Priska adds depth to Ed Sheeran’s The A Team. Priska’s voice swells up, fills the verses and carries over into the 1st half of the hook, evoking an image of a strong girl in desperate times though we feel at least there’s hope for her - that she could pull herself out of her struggle.
And then all at once, the bottom drops out from beneath our feet and we’re left standing on air, only hearing just the wispy, thin remnants pleading “slowly sinking wasting; crumbling like pastries. And they scream the worst things in life come free to us…”
Hauntingly perfect musicality. I can’t wait to hear more from her.
Marina Abramovic meets Ulay
“Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again. at her 2010 MoMa retrospective Marina performed ‘The Artist Is Present’ as part of the show, a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing it and this is what happened.”
“En los años 70, Marina Abramovic mantuvo una intensa historia de amor con Ulay. Pasaron 5 años viviendo en una furgoneta realizando toda clase de performances. En 1988, cuando su relación ya no daba para más, decidieron recorrer la Gran Muralla China, empezando cada uno de un lado, para encontrarse en el medio, abrazarse y no volver a verse nunca más. En 2010 el MoMa de Nueva York dedicó una retrospectiva a su obra. Dentro de la misma, Marina compartía un minuto en silencio con cada extraño que se sentaba frente a ella. Ulay llegó sin que ella lo supiera, y esto fue lo que pasó”
What a beautiful story. A love that spans space and time.
(via priskamusik)
Idiot electrical engineer just doesn’t learn.
One of my favorite commercials. Beautiful. #kikkoman #soysauce #tradition #heritage #virtue #family
