“I can dive", Sophia said. "Do you know what it feels like when you dive?"
Of course I do," her grandmother said. "You let go of everything and get ready and just dive. You can feel the seaweed against your legs. It's brown, and the water's clear, lighter towards the top, with lots of bubbles. And you glide. You hold your breath and glide and turn and come up, let yourself rise and breathe out. And then you float. Just float."
And all the time with your eyes open," Sophia said.
Naturally. People don't dive with their eyes shut."

-- Tove Jansson

Eyes.
Found here

Sunday Tune

Sunday Tune

Emilie Faif

Emilie Faif
Vêtements paysages/ impressions sur vêtements Isabel Marant / 2006

James Brown Knows!!

Happy Valentines!

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Happy Valentines!

'I love you... like dogs love squirrels'

Card from RedBirdInk

Love

"Do you think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary?
What we need is to love without getting tired.
How does a lamp burn?
Through the continuous drops of oil. If the drops of oil run out, the light of the lamp will cease.
What are these drops of oils in our lamps?
They are the small things of daily life: faithfulness, punctuality, small words of kindness, a thought for others, our way of being silent, of looking, of speaking, and of acting.
These are the true drops of love...
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

--Mother Theresa

Photograph by Sergey Prokudin Gorsky, a colour photography pioneer.

Indeed!
From Reference Library

'Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.'

-- Carl Sagan

Found here

Rothko

Blue Eyed Sailor

Mia Maestro: Blue Eyed Sailor on Nowness.com.

Guy Bourdin

Polaroids by Jackson Eaton and Ye Rin Mok

shells

Carved conch shells

Origins of the Moonwalk

Collaboration and research is key in all walks of life.
Nothing is truly original!

Fred Astaire, Bill Bailey (top, in Cabin in the Sky), Buck and Bubbles, Cab Calloway, Clark Brothers, Sammy Davis Jr., Daniel L. Haynes, Rubberneck Holmes, Patterson and Jackson, Eleanor Powell, Bill Robinson, Three Chefs, Tip Tap and Toe featuring Ray Winfield, Earl Snakehips Tucker.

More: Origins of the Moonwalk

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blue ink

Image of Kiki Smith's back - by Valerie Hammond, 'apports', 4-color photogravure, 20 x 16 inches, 2012.

Found here

Blue songs are like tattoos
You know I've been to sea before
Crown and anchor me
Or let me sail away
Hey Blue, here is a song for you
Ink on a pin
Underneath the skin
An empty space to fill in
Well there're so many sinking now
You've got to keep thinking
You can make it thru these waves
Acid, booze, and ass
Needles, guns, and grass
Lots of laughs lots of laughs
Everybody's saying that hell's the hippest way to go
Well I don't think so
But I'm gonna take a look around it though
Blue I love you

Blue here is a shell for you
Inside you'll hear a sigh
A foggy lullaby
There is your song from me

© 1970; Joni Mitchell

From Karen Jacobs

blue

text from here via here and image from here.

Sunday Tune

Sunday tune

waves

Relax magazine #75.5
New Waves by Takashi Homma

 Found at reference library.

“There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a word? It is a balloon that sails over tree-tops. To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure. We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities. What is to come? I know not. But, as I put down my glass I remember; I am engaged to be married. I am to dine with my friends tonight. I am Bernard.”

 -- Virginia Woolf, The Waves