Do you know what it takes to be so free that you can improvise instrumental music with other musicians for hours? Will you let that conversation vibrate with every cell of your being, rattle your consciousness and alert you to the possibility of the present moment? Have you ever listened so hard that you could hear yourself smile? Could you open up your heart to a room, and then make that room the world?
I think if I like, really had to think about it, free jazz is the pinnacle of music. I wish I could dedicate my life to jazz. watch this sun ra performance. you’ll feel the same way
My grandma’s word for word response when I asked her if she had any advice for living a long life. She lived to be 99 years old. Rest in Paradise Donna.
I am obsessed with this Art Deco Extraordinaire, a Polish-born painter whose glamorous figurative compositions came to life in 1920s-30s Paris. Influenced by Cubism and Neoclassicism, her works—especially her portraits of women—blend beauty, strength, modernity, and a timeless cosmopolitan flair. After leaving Paris, she continued her career in New York, Hollywood, and Mexico, marking her as a truly international woman of her time. Stunning, just stunning!
Because preservation, not modification, is the stronger stance in a society where homogeneity is the default. If you happen to have little hairs connecting the two arches above your eyes, consider them a bridge to one of the greatest to ever do it.
