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Dec 20 2014
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Sitting in a comfy armchair with her socked feet tucked underneath her with a sketchpad on her lap. Soft music playing in the background. She gets uninspired at one point so she sips tea and pinterests for a while. I love thinking about her as a human, not something swaft in clouds and pointy beams of light, but rather someone that reads all the time and even gets frustrated.

I bet she spends time in a room like this…thinking, creating, pondering.

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And drinks fruity alcoholic drinks with her meals in a room like this…

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And falls asleep on that chestnut colored chair with a cat curled up on her lap and that green pillow wedged in the crook of her neck.

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Maybe she even plays dress up when she’s bored.

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Maybe she goes out with friends and has conversations that will seem to solve the world’s problems for a few moments.

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I love to think about this. Makes above seem closer.

Whether you celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, or St. Pillows we wish everyone a very happy holiday season! Go spread joy!

-paris

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Dec 14 2014
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Speak the Truth to the People / by Mari Evans

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Speak the truth to the people
Talk sense to the people
Free them with honesty
Free the people with Love and Courage for their Being
Spare them the fantasy
Fantasy enslaves
A slave is enslaved
Can be enslaved by unwisdom
Can be re-enslaved while in flight from the enemy
Can be enslaved by his brother whom he loves
His brother whom he trusts whom he loves
His brother whom he trusts
His brother with the loud voice
And the unwisdom
Speak the truth to the people
It is not necessary to green the heart
Only to identify the enemy
It is not necessary to blow the mind
Only to free the mind
To identify the enemy is to free the mind
A free mind has no need to scream

A free mind is ready for other things

To BUILD black schools
To BUILD black children
To BUILD black minds
To BUILD black love
To BUILD black impregnability
To BUILD a strong black nation
To BUILD

Speak the truth to the people
Spare them the opium of devil-hate
They need no trips on honky-chants.

Move them instead to a BLACK ONENESS.

A black strength which will defend its own
Needing no cacophony of screams for activation
A black strength which will attack the laws
exposes the lies, disassembles the structure
and ravages the very foundation of evil.
Speak the truth to the people
To identify the enemy is to free the mind
Free the mind of the people
Speak to the mind of the people
Speak Truth

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Dec 07 2014
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieve it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

by Dylan Thomas

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