“Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong — and in life, and in love, and in business, and in friendship, and in health, and in all the other ways in which life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art.”
Neil Gaiman’s advice to graduates beginning careers in the arts
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Loving Once Upon Another Time, the new Sara Bareilles EP.
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View Larger Also reading Search Sweet Country by Kojo Laing. I am trying to love the proper poetry of this one, but the pretty exhausts me. Beautiful, but the (recovering?) journalist in me just wants the writer to spit the truth clean out. I will finish it, though, because I rarely read any contemporary African authors. Also hoping to visit Ghana in August, so there’s that.
More words around these parts lately, probably because I am reading and actually excited about it. (A textbook can really steal your joy.)
Currently enjoying Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans.
Alma Thomas, Snoopy Sees Earth Wrapped in Sunset, 1970
View Larger Dr’s Ivan van sertima, John henrik clark & Ben yosef jochannan from Like It Is with Gil Noble. These four Africans made tremendous contributions in liberating the minds of Africans worldwide.
Malcolm X by Richard Avedon
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