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Apr 30

I may have volunteered to do the pre-show entertainment for “Comedy of Errors” this week.

And that “entertainment” may consist of myself and the Department Chair’s 14-year-old daughter (whom I adore and have known since she was 2, and who is awesome) wearing unitards.

I may have my unitard hood off.

And I may have Frenchy Male Beatnik face drawn on…pencil curlicue moustache, eyebrows, and all.

And we may be dancing to a pretty zany mix of music, consisting of about 30 song clips in 12 minutes….

And this dancing may be completely impromptu/interpretive….

And I may need to find out what I am going to carry prohibited bourbon in, because as fun as I think this could be, I don’t think I can do it without at shot of Bulleit, first….

And I hope people at least laugh. They can laugh at us, or with us, I don’t care. Just so long as they laugh.

Ugh.

Posted 4 weeks ago

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potential embarassment, life, theatre, dancing, shakespeare would laugh at us,

Mar 28

FOR ALEX, ON HER GOLDEN JUBILEE

FOR ALEX, ON HER GOLDEN JUBILEE

The Angel Approaches
A melody plays
The song of a heart’s soul
The parrot’s been slain
Break down the defenses
Deny projections of shame
Claim your own lifesong
The melody you play
Dance like a dervish
Pause like a breath
Hold fast to the release
Fear no pain or death
Share the gift you are given
Share the gift that you give
If they tell you you’re through
Tell them you’re here to LIVE.

Posted 2 months ago

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alexandra billings, hiv, aids, survival, life, birthday,

Jan 23
Let it be. Indeed.

Let it be. Indeed.

(Source: tonsofphotographyxox)

Reblogged 4 months ago from escapingmyrealityy

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let it be, the beatles, life, black and white photography,

Jan 19

Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play… I tell you, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.

- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via bookmania)

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oscar wilde, the picture of dorian gray, lit, life, quotations,

Nov 5

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

- Anaïs Nin (via maksg)

(Source: lucifelle)

Reblogged 6 months ago from elliejune

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anais nin, quotation, life, moving forward,

Sep 23
I NEVER get tired of this Hemingway quote. quotevadis: “There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.” — Ernest Hemingway, an American author and journalist. His distinctive writing style, characterized by economy and understatement, influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and his public image. He produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway’s fiction was successful because the characters he presented exhibited authenticity that resonated with his audience. Many of his works are classics of American literature. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works during his lifetime; a further three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. I NEVER get tired of this Hemingway quote.

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“There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.” — Ernest Hemingway, an American author and journalist. His distinctive writing style, characterized by economy and understatement, influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and his public image. He produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway’s fiction was successful because the characters he presented exhibited authenticity that resonated with his audience. Many of his works are classics of American literature. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works during his lifetime; a further three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously.

Reblogged 8 months ago from bookmania

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Ernest Hemingway, Life, Death, Present, Past, Lit, Quote,

Sep 18

We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.

- Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes (via liquidnight)

Reblogged 8 months ago from liquidnight

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Quote, Comics, Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes, Wisdom, Perspective, Life, Watch, Look, Ahead, Enjoyment, Enjoy,

Sep 15

When there is love, the world is conquered by lovers.
All the better for us: we are enriched by their radiance.
Their happiness makes the air purer. A poem incarnate.
      It is beyond criticism. It defies explanation.
      That defiance is the nature of the poem.

- Édouard Boubat, Notebooks, 1998 (via liquidnight)

Reblogged 8 months ago from liquidnight

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liquidnight: Izis Trafalgar Square London, 1950 From Izis: Captive Dreams - Photographs, 1944-80

liquidnight:

Izis

Trafalgar Square

London, 1950

From Izis: Captive Dreams - Photographs, 1944-80

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Sep 11
liquidnight: Henri Cartier-Bresson The Berlin Wall, 1963 From Henri Cartier-Bresson Photographer

liquidnight:

Henri Cartier-Bresson

The Berlin Wall, 1963

From Henri Cartier-Bresson Photographer

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Sep 7

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Case of Identity”
From The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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Reblogged 8 months ago from liquidnight

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Sep 4

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

- Henry Miller (via bookmania)

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Henry Miller, quotations, awareness, living, life,

Aug 24

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.

- Anatole France (via liquidnight)

Reblogged 9 months ago from liquidnight

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Aug 23

So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall.

- Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing (via liquidnight)

Reblogged 9 months ago from liquidnight

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He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.

- Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses (via liquidnight)

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