We are in the midst of a beautiful darkness, on the cusp of a renaissance. It’s exciting, and scary, and delightful. A few things to enjoy in the dark.
PONDERANCE and WATCH: four-hundred years from now, what will the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Tortoises be called? Williams? Gorman?
QUOTE – 2 this week!
I have always liked my people a bit damaged. A bit rough around the edges. A bit difficult to stereotype. A bit stranger than the normal crowd. I like people whose eyes tell stories and whose smiles have fought through wars. If you’re perfect, changes are, we aren’t going to get on. If you’re one of the cool kids, changes are, you won’t like me. You see, what I want is authentic. What I want to see is your purity, I want to see the way you wear your scars, I want to see how brave you are with your vulnerability, how emotionally naked do you let the world see you. Your damage may not be beautiful, but it has made you exquisite. It makes you original, different, and one of my kind of people, because people like you are the most incredible things about this world. – Nikita Gill
…When you have the balls to go into the darkness and all of a sudden you realize that darkness was a complete illusion. All the darkness and negativity and spooky shit and guilt and fear and crap you thought was inside you, and all the bad things you thought you’ve done, and all the things you feel terrible about secretly…you realize that’s nothing. It’s an illusion. The universe loves you, you are completely embraced by the entire universe. You are an incremental part of the functioning of the cosmos. You are an incredible, wonderful, perfect fucking thing. And when you get a glimpse of that, it’s the greatest feeling ever. Because you’re healed. Because that’s what true healing is, man. True healing is realizing you were never sick in the first place. True healing is realizing you just had a little bit of dust on the windshield man..you brush it off... – Duncan Trussell
REMINDER: You are doing better than you think you are. There is no need to be hard on yourself. Release the unnecessary pressure.
SONG(s): The Darkness – I Believe In A Thing Called Love (Official Music Video) – YouTube
and…in honor of who I believe should be a TNMT namesake: Saul Williams: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert – YouTube
POEM: (Image from above…story from the book “Frankenstein eats a sandwich, by Adam Rex)
When Frankenstein prepared to dine
on ham and cheese on wheat
He found, instead, he had no bread(or mustard, cheese, or meat).
What could he do? He thought it through
until his brain was sore.
And thought he ought to see what he could borrow from next door.
His neighbors gawked as Frankie walked the paths up to their porches.
Each time he tried, the folks inside would chase him off with torches.
“A MONSTER! EEK!” the people shrieked. “Oh, make him go away!”
The angry hordes unsheathed their swords, pulled pitchforks out of hay. They threw tomatoes, pigs, potatoes, loaves of moldy bread.
And then a thought struck Frankenstein as pickles struck his head. It’s true at first he thought the worst. His neighbors were so rude!
But then he found that on the ground they’d made a mound of food! He piled it high and waved good-bye and shouted, “Thanks a bunch!” Then stacked it on a plate and ate a big, disgusting lunch!
Leah Moss 