"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
(e. e. cummings) #quotes
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
Emily Dickenson
one still and waiting.
two jackdaws silently perched.
one swoops and catches.
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spring caressing breeze,
the tender light in the tree.
moments of still thought.
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peach tree pink blossom,
splendour full grown in a dream.
fruit I knew not then.
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The Lighthouse Keeper – a tender illustrated meditation on what saves us www.themarginalian.org/2025/12/09/t...
#HaikuSaturday #haiku
5/7/5:
morning quiet ends
with loud honking overhead--
return of the geese
short form:
they return
flying honking
geese
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Seven Samurai (1954)
I get the hype and why its one of the quintessential movies now. Good first film for a year.
Honestly loved the slow, tense and deliberate pacing and the abundance of silent thoughtful moments. A lot of scenes respecting the viewer and telling a story without explicitly
youtu.be/QgOm-L7TsEQ?... in Zeiten wie diesen … #kurusawa : the humanistic cinema of Akira Kurosawa
It is astounding what a loving gaze reveals about masculinity. Looking at men as objects of inherent beauty and passion, there emerges a different story about who they are, and about the tragedy they're suffering in an increasingly cruel world.
New video: youtu.be/r5WaBrceYn4
Still ‘round the corner
There may wait
A new road or
A secret gate;
And though I oft
Have passed them by,
A day will come
At last when I
Shall take the hidden
Paths that run
West of the moon,
East of the sun.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
#SmallPoemsSunday
Beautiful 🙏
Merry Christmas 🎄
European Robin by Theresa Catherine Ridgway in the UK. #EuropeanRobin #RedRobin #Robin #bird #birds #nature #wildlife #christmas #merrychristmas
An European Robin sits in a bush and looks to the right.
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #mostrecent 🪶
I just photographed this #HolidayRobin in the garden 🥰
#birds #FestiveDailyRobin #SensoryArt #Joy #FlyDay #photography #scape #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #nature #outdoors #thelittlethings #photohour #EastCoastKin
"Being in balance, together,
Is not a fixed state,
Not a battle over differences
Or bending to each other
But a slender cord of
Grace between you,
Tough and elastic,
That leaves you
Steady and free."
A #birddivination to help with the myriad complex balances of love. Find it as a solo print and part of the deck of 100, along with the story and process behind them, at almanacofbirds.org
‘Panopticon is not merely a prison design, but a metaphor for a new mode of power in modern societies-one that operates through psychological control and internalized surveillance rather than overt, physical punishment […] embodying the shift from external force to internalized discipline.’
2/2
mock box art for Michel Foucault Monopoly special edition picutred is the French philosopher in profile with his hand on his forehead, the traditional spaces on a monopoly board have all been replaced with GO TO JAIL except for one square reading IN JAIL
game of the year
This looks interesting. So much work to be done in Mental health nursing on this subject. Not simply looking at men & expectation but the systems surrounding them & subject matters which can be more complex beyond the person. I feel the gov. is missing a trick here when it comes to the profession.
The 40th anniversary of 'Commando' (1985), shown in Dundee, for 2 quid, with proceeds going to charity, and a facilitated discussion on men's mental health following the film? 30th November 12pm, all of your dreams come true. www.citizenticket.com/events/scott...
Long live The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows – uncommonly lovely invented words for what we feel but cannot name, such as maru mori (“the heartbreaking simplicity of ordinary things”) and apolytus (“the moment you realize you are changing as a person") www.themarginalian.org/2024/04/12/d...
pebble thrown lightly,
pond moves mirrors reflections.
small wave distorts view.
#haiku #micropoetry #haikumicropoetry #haikupoetry
#haikusaturday
Paragraph from p. 27 of Michel Foucault’s “Society Must Be Defended,” which reads, “Methodological precautions. Our object is not to analyze rule-governed and legitimate forms of power which have a single center, or to look at what their general mechanisms or its overall effects might be. Our object is, on the contrary, to understand power by looking at its extremities, at its outer limits at the point where it becomes capillary; in other words, to understand power in its most regional forms and institutions, and especially at the points where this power transgresses the rules of right that organize and delineate it, oversteps those rules and is invested in institutions, is embodied in techniques.”
“Our object is […] to understand power by looking at its extremities, at its outer limits at the point where it becomes capillary….” – From Foucault, “Society Must Be Defended,” p. 27.
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frog pauses and looks.
mayfly scates across water.
ripples as echos.
(5-7-5) mayfly
The art of choosing love over not-love – on Rumi's birthday, his immortal antidote to our human tragedy www.themarginalian.org/2022/04/02/r...
#HaikuSaturday #haiku
5/7/5:
a hummingbird zips
to a wilting blue salvia--
last sips of summer
short form:
wilting blue salvia--
a hummingbird's last sips
of summer
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