Everyone in the world capable of having an opinion has an opinion on everything and is impressed with their opinion

My favorite choreography from Jake Kodish in the past year or so:

Analyzing art is itself an art form. Those who consume and interpret art are comparable artists to those who create the work themselves.

a principled man with sound character, a sense of humor, and a contagious smile > the hottest, richest, smartest dude on the planet

you ladies better hold on to your man when I bust this thing out

The world doesn’t need more businessmen, traders, corporate lawyers, tycoons, ‘successful’ people. It needs peacemakers, advocates, storytellers, humanitarians, and just generally folks who have the courage and wisdom to fight to make the planet more habitable, and these qualities have very little to do with success as society has defined it.

black outfit + red lipstick + Polaroid camera

A flower nipped in the bud / came from the heavens and returned to the heavens / its fragrance lingers in my mind

A beautiful character trumps any other attribute, and is unsurprisingly the rarest of finds. View quoted note →

Free dessert tastes sweeter.

“Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.” - Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos

From Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman. One of my favorites of this collection.

poetry dump from the past two weeks, just because.