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I say we are here in human form to learn by the human hieroglyphs of love & suffering. There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love & feel without defense or reserve. ~William S. Burroughs

Let's see how her life is measuring up, that lucky girl. So much happiness, so much good fortune. Ah, it's time.

Sometimes I think our own lives are watched over like that. Out of the mystery of the hours & the days Something says-Let's give this one a little trial. Let's say, put a turtle in the road she's traveling on, & in a hurry.

THE MEASURE ~ Mary Oliver I stopped the car & ran back & across the road & picked up the box turtle, who only hissed & withdrew herself into her pretty shell. Well, goodness, it was early in the morning, not too much traffic. Rather an adventure than a risk, & anyway

Pinecones are one of the best-engineered humidity sensors on the planet, and they've been running this design for 200 million years. Each scale is made of two layers of tissue that absorb water at different rates. The outer layer swells faster than the inner layer when it gets wet. That differential expansion creates a bending force that pulls the scale shut. Same principle as a bimetallic strip in a thermostat, except the pinecone figured it out 199.99 million years before we did. The reason is reproduction. Pinecones only release their seeds in dry, windy conditions because that's when seeds travel farthest. Wet air means rain, and rain means the seeds drop straight down into the parent tree's shadow where they'll never get enough light. So what looks like a party trick in your bathroom is actually a dispersal algorithm optimized over 200 million generations. Open means launch conditions met. Closed means wait. Engineers at Bath University reverse-engineered this exact mechanism to build building facades that open and close with rain. No motors, no electricity, no sensors. Just geometry and differential swelling. The pinecone doesn't know it's in your bathroom. It's just running the program.

Dare to take it in its condensation, without allowing them, in their eagerness to narrate it, to cause you to lose its intensity. ~Claudia Piñeiro

Maybe happiness is that, an instant where to be, an occasional moment when words are left out because it would take too many to be able to count.

Strait of Hormuz in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, & you shall have the suffrage of the world." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought & felt all the time, & we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

A man should learn to detect & watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards & sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his.

In my lifetime this artist—within the art of acting—was Marlon Brando. Even I—this verbose, old satyr—cannot find the words to tell you about him sufficiently, but I’ll try. ~Tennessee Williams

& God, I believe, delivers this artist to those people who can use him, learn from him, wonder over him.

God makes an artist. Face this now & hold the fact dear. There is nothing else to do about the equipment you had installed celestially, & there is absolutely not one single thing you can do about the equipment that your family, your place of birth & culturation,

Beatus vir qui non abit in consilio impiorum — Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked.

Perhaps the key to being truly free is to laugh when you can & cry when you need to. ~Luis Eduardo Aute