How beautiful I can’t breathe

A good neighbor anecdote: Friday at 3:30PM, our garage gate was broken. It's a big hulking thing, and no amount of feeble human force was going to get it out of its half up/half down position. They said a tech was coming between 4 and 6pm, but I had to get Desmond by 5pm. My car could not clear it. One of the neighbors came out with her keys and said "take my car" - a mini. So we put the carseat in there and that's how I was on time to pick up my child. Team work makes the dream work.

A joke from Desmond: "Mama, what is Dada making?"

[I think he means breakfast] "Nothing right now, Dada went to work."

"No mama, what is Dada making?”

"What do you mean? He's not here."

"Dada is making MONEY, Mama" [smirk]

Does anyone have any podcast recommendations? I don't do true crime. I like interview series with a philosophical leaning - The One You Feed and Ten Percent Happier are my favorites right now. Also listen to Ladygang and Ask Iliza and Hear in LA. Some Stuff You Should Know and Sounds Fake But Okay. Recently went through some podcast backlogs and ended up hearing a lot from Johann Hari, Oliver Burkeman and Lenore Skenazy. OK, I'll read 4000 Weeks even though finite time makes me panicky and tbh so does that new picture of SPACE. What a beautiful, wondrous image that reminds me of my utter insignificance. 

Loved Matt Haig's "How To Stop Time" very very much. Mostly because I want to live forever but I've never thought about the problems it could cause. The only problem I had with it is the "famous" people the protagonist interacted with - did he always have a sense of their historical importance? No one thinks about the history they're making while they're living it. But maybe people who are hundreds of years old DO.

A quote I saved in 2005"..women are more complicated when it comes to their affections: They rarely love simply for what it is-- but for what it might be, and more importantly, how it might affect them. This is why a woman will endure a great deal of abuse in love-- as long as she believes there is something to be gained. But when a woman sees that a man can no longer help her, when his actions become detrimental to her lifestyle, she can fall out of love as suddenly and as firmly as an apple falling from a tree. There is no putting the apple back on the tree, just as there is no going back in love. Her heart closes against the man as resolutely as if he had never existed."

Monster Happy Hour: Holiday Weekend Special

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. --FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil

Monsters, it turns out, do not adhere to constraints of time where a holiday weekend is concerned.

It’s 3pm, suddenly, and there is both too much time and not enough.

I’m twisted up like a live wire with no grounding agent. 

Book a class. Read a book. Bite something. Be something.

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. -Mary Wollstonecraft #quotes #lashes #selfiesaturday

"There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world, I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary, and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair, and disrespect." -Nikki Giovanni #quotes #flowers #foodforthought

"The minute you start saying something, “Ah, how beautiful! We must photograph it!” you are already close to the view of the person who thinks that everything that is not photographed is lost, as if it had never existed, and that therefore, in order really to live, you must photograph as much as you can, and to photograph as much as you can you must either live in the most photographable way possible, or else consider photographable every moment of your life. The first course leads to stupidity; the second to madness.” -Italo Calvino #quotes #flowers #friyay

"Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world." -Ben Okri #quotes #art #murakami (at The Broad)

"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness" #MLK #mlkday #quotes #latergram

"Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work.” -Søren Kierkegaard #latergram #quotes Be present, enjoy your day 😊

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." --William Faulkner  #quotes #valleyoffire #elephantrock #yogaeverydamnday

"We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams." H.G. Wells #quotes #latergram

"Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled-- To cast aside the weight of facts... And maybe even to float a little above this difficult world." --mary oliver #quotes #clouds #poetry (at Seattle, Washington)

It is strange how few people make more than a casual cult of enjoying Nature. And yet the earth is actually and literally the mother of us all. One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth. - John Cowper Powys #quotes #hike #hikela #gooutside #neverstopexploring (at Temescal Canyon)

"It is necessary you keep your inner child alive and well. While our adulthoods are a relentless assault of unrealistic demands and enormous  responsibility, the ever-curious inner child asks the vital questions, like, Why is this important? and, Will this make me happy?" --Beau Taplin #quotes #makeuptestselfie Also shout out to @joepending I still have this shirt! 😝 (at Hollywood)

"It’s enormously disorienting to simply say, “I don’t know.” But it’s infinitely more rewarding to understand than to be right — even if that means changing your mind about a topic, an ideology, or, above all, yourself" -Maria Popova #quotes #makeuptestselfie #latergram #makeup #gweninspired ... Also, a rare glimpse at the OTHER side of my face. Haha.

"We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come" - Milan Kundera #makeuptestselfie #makeup #quotes #beanieday (at Live Nation Labs)

Today's looks + a quote to chew on: "What have you truly loved thus far? What has ever uplifted your soul, what has dominated and delighted it at the same time? Assemble these revered objects in a row before you and perhaps they will reveal a law by their nature and their order: the fundamental law of your very self. Compare these objects, see how they complement, enlarge, outdo, transfigure one another; how they form a ladder on whose steps you have been climbing up to yourself so far; for your true self does not lie buried deep within you, but rather rises immeasurably high above you - Nietzsche #quotes #makeuptestselfie #beanieday #makeup #selfie #lashes (at Live Nation Labs)

"Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk." - Jane Kenyon #quotes #makeuptestselfie #makeup #hair