saturday poem

poem. from salt. by nayyirah waheed.

Saturday Cartoon

Duct Tape Surfing from Mark Tipple on Vimeo.

Friday!

Have a lovely weekend!

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Images of evening swimmers on the beach in Nice, It was my daily ritual when I lived there.

(by me from forever ago.)

the case for crying

"Salty tears have a communicative power beyond words and reason. But what happens when the waterworks are nothing but crocodile tears, caused by exhaustion, frustration or even a stubborn onion? 

In Roman times, when their husbands went to sea, sailors’ wives used to keep “tear bottles” to capture their watery woe. When the sailors returned, they could literally measure how much their wives had really missed them: It was a pretty, albeit controlling, idea. But what was to stop the women from filling the jar with the seawater their loves had sailed away on? It’s as salty as tears, and it would certainly withstand a taste test.

People don’t have to be sad to cry. If I’d been a Roman sailor’s wife, it would’ve been an easy deceit: When I’m tired, I can cry enough to fill a whole tear bottle without the slightest tinge of sadness. After all, tears can express the whole gamut of human emotion, and most of them don’t deal with despair: They can represent ecstasy and joy right across the spectrum to fear, frustration, shock, powerlessness, anger and empathy. But it’s exhaustion that brings me to tears."

Read the rest of the essay here 
Words by Romy Ash Photograph by Anja Verdugo for Kinfolk.

“Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean"

 –Alfred Lord Tennyson

Found on this beauties page

Synchronised

Water, dance, synchronised swimming , music, community, joy.
Humans doing good things together.

From imovearts and the Balbir Singh Dance Company .

Wishing i was here!
(found via awelltraveledwoman)

Salt

“I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea - whether it is to sail or to watch it - we are going back from whence we came."

― John F. Kennedy

Remarks at the Dinner for the America's Cup Crews, September 14 1962. Not 100% scientifically correct, our blood is 1% salinity while the sea has an average of 3.5%, but I like the notion.

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