We keep asking people to fix the holes that trip us up by taking dirt from other places to fill them so that there's less of a surprise chance to stumble or make a fool of ourselves.

But what we don't realize is that this process only creates more holes somewhere else.

Those who don't feel this Love ( Read more... )

Being alone is terrifying, but it is the key to shaking off the overwhelming need to constantly check yourself against the judgement of others. I'm not talking about constant isolation, just spending time alone in general, especially if used for constructive introspection and development. And it's tough, really tough. We all crave social ( Read more... )

'A foolish man proclaimeth his qualifications;
A wise man keepeth them secret within himself;
A straw floateth on the surface of the water,
But a precious gem placed upon it sinketh.'

(Stanza 58 from The Precious Treasury of Elegant Sayings [1270 CE].
Attributed to the Grand Lama of Saskya Pandita.)

This is part of the proclamation that Saul Williams' persona, Niggy Tardust, made after his liberation.

…This is no time to cry! This is no time at all! Here is the moment of the overlooked and the unforeseeable. We are the elected officials of the people: poets and artists. We are the declarative statement of the inarticulate, the irreparably ( Read more... )

Shhh...
It's okay now, I feel the tug.

"Strange little grub."
Strange, little grub.

A confused turtle smashed into the pavement while trying to cross the road ( Read more... )

It's strange how people who try their best to make others look barbaric end up looking worse than they had set out to make the group they were scorning seem in the first place. That little piece of advice most can remember being given as children that goes something along the lines of, "If you point a finger at someone, you have two pointing back ( Read more... )