"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it is better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." - Marilyn Monroe
Illustration by Micheal Beyers
"The world’s most primitive people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a small amount of goods, nor a relation between means and ends. Above all it is a relation between people.” - Marshall Sahlins
Photo by Megan Laws
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” - Dr. Suess
Photo by Juan Carlos Paz
Less than 3% of reporters and editors in the U.S. — and even fewer elsewhere in the world — have formal training in covering science, health, or climate. — Siri Carpenter, The Open Notebook
Image from https://stemcell.eco/
Of the 100 largest economies in the world, 51 are corporations. - Amnesty International https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/corporate-accountability/
Illustration by John Holcraft
Don’t get lost on this planet Earth. Things happen for a reason. - Artist William Tyler
"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” - Virginia Woolf
Photo of a single blade of grass under a microscope.
“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.” - Joss Whedon
Photo by Dave Roth
"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light." — Joseph Pulitzer
Artwork by Steve Powers
Words and images of others I find idiocyncratic, intriguing and inspirational.
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