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Mon 5 Apr 2021

Canary

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Random quote of the day:

“I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. This theory says that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are super-sensitive. They keel over like canaries in poison coal mines long before more robust types realize that there is any danger whatsoever.”

—Kurt Vonnegut, Chicago Tribune Magazine, June 22, 1969

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Sat 3 Apr 2021

Instagram stores – Student

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The best: she was so excited to be at the Big U, to be learning new things and adding to her base of knowledge, to be exploring and trying on new ideas. Knowledge excited her and pursuing her literary and artistic ambitions set her mind on fire. The worst: she worked nearly full-time to put herself through school. Her instinct was to avoid student loans and her parents couldn’t afford to help, other than to offer room and board. She had almost no spare time for anything but study. She thought herself deprived because she missed out on the whole “party” aspect of college. After graduating with a degree in English Lit. there were not many employment opportunities so she grabbed what she could get: a job was a clerk. She did catch up on her partying then. But after a while she thought it was time to stop messing about, to stop pursuing the dead-end and money-scarce goal of making art. She wanted to make money, to be somebody, maybe go back to school for her MBA. A small bout of cancer scotched those plans. She came out the other side of that experience realizing that she really had been someone all along. She was an artist. That was what made her happy. Life, she concluded, was way the hell too short to be pursuing goals that didn’t make her happy. She never regretted that decision.

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Thu 1 Apr 2021

Compassion

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Random quote of the day:

“The heart opens and closes, and there may be times, very sensibly, when you need to back off and protect yourself…You have to include yourself in compassion, not just everybody else.” 

—Jack Kornfeld, The Lion’s Roar, October 15, 2017

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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