Ambrocious

And I got laid off in the name of ‘efficiency.’ My $51,000 salary was really wrecking our budget, guys. Sorry 🫠

Join the Army

After 1.5 years of extensively studying his work and teachings, I truly believe this is honestly in the best interest of all of us or at least anyone willing to expand their consciousness in a meaningful way. +

Millioneneinigung im Streit um Beuys-Bildrechte Schlussstrich im erbitterten Streit um die Bildrechte an Werken von Joseph Beuys: Das Land NRW zahlt den Erben 3,3 Millionen Euro.

40 years after his death: “The state of North Rhine-Westphalia has succeeded in making his artistic legacy permanently accessible & visible.”

‘The Joseph Beuys Estate stated that it is in its own best interest to preserve & further develop the enduring fascination with Joseph Beuys for the future.’

[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone]

Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.

It’s a crying in the workplace bathroom kinda day.

It’s not my job. My team is wonderful.

My brain is just really broken right now.

Iraqi Human Rights Activist and Feminist Yanar Mohammed Is Murdered Outside Her Baghdad Home Prominent Iraqi human rights defender and feminist advocate Yanar Mohammed was killed in an armed attack on her home in Baghdad Monday. Mohammed had reportedly returned to Iraq from Canada a few days ...

Iraqi Human Rights Activist and Feminist Yanar Mohammed Is Murdered

Prominent Iraqi human rights defender and feminist advocate Yanar Mohammed was murder by two unidentified gunmen at her home on March 3.

Mohammed was the co-founder and president of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq.

That’s right, North Carolina. I’m not often enthused by a political candidate these days but Roy Cooper was a stellar governor. A true public servant.

A fantastic option to replace US Sen. Thom Tillis.

Also, kittens. (I’m sorry. Not sorry. I’m deep in the doldrums. Let me have this whimsy.)

From ‘The Felt Hat’ by Lucrezia De Domizio Durini

‘The things inside me had to be totally transplanted. A physical change had to take place in me. Illnesses are almost always spiritual crises in life in which old experiences & phases of thought are cast off in order to permit positive changes.’ ~Joseph Beuys on navigating & overcoming depression

What’s Congress going to do about it other than wringing hands and virtue signaling on social media?

Distracting.

3.4ish years later…

One of my favorite lines from Czechowicz, from his "A Song With Tears":

ko­ły­san­ki takt ostat­ni się skoń­czy
w strasz­li­wych burz gwał­tow­no­ści

In my translation:

the last bar of the lullaby will end
in terrifying storms of violence

And I’m just channeling my great great grandparents who migrated to Chicago from Czechoslovakia. I have a little spark of love for them. I have no family so I just find connection where I can. (I’m fortunate to have dear friends & my life partner *husband as society deems him.)

I really love your latest series. So good.

So good!

💖

I may need to check this place out. Alamance County has some gems.

I want to believe him. Actually I do. But I think it’s too late to social sculpt our way out of this one, Beuys.

Kéž se rozhoříme v něco jasnějšího.

I hope to wake up tomorrow not feeling that the human race is beyond repair.

I really want to but it’s looking grim.

This again. Does he realize how disrespectful he is to the individuals who’ve received the Medal of Honor by saying this? Does he know that for most if not all the moment that earned them this recognition was the worst day(s) of their lives? It’s not something to joke about or ‘own the Dems’ with.

The feeling is mutual, Steve.

I hear you. Therapy certainly helps. I’m in the process of un-pretzeling myself now.

Relatable content.

"Nixon believed-as he said many times- that if the president of the United States does it, it can't be illegal. But Nixon never understood the much higher and meaner truth of Bob Dylan's warning that, "To live outside the law you must be honest."
~Hunter S. Thompson
Kingdom of Fear

I need to go to where the salamanders are because I never see them here in NC. And I love them 🥹 Maybe they sense Tiny Toons Elmira vibes from me, and that’s why they evade me.

Barbara Kruger
Untitled (Questions)
1990

"Who is beyond the law?
Who is bought and sold?
Who is free to choose?
Who does the time?
Who follows orders?
Who salutes the longest?
Who prays loudest?
Who dies first?
Who laughs last?"

Carolina Tisdall’s photo of Little John, the coyote who spent several days with Joseph Beuys during the action ‘I Like America and America Likes Me’ after the artist’s departure, placed in the hand of Buddha.

Carolina Tisdall’s photo of Little John, the coyote who spent several days with Joseph Beuys during the action ‘I Like America and America Likes Me’ after the artist’s departure.

Reverberating +

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