“This work of connecting our light to the world does not need to be done through a mass movement, or by millions of people.

The real work is always done by a small number of individuals.

What matters is the level of participation: whether we dare to make a real commitment to the work of the soul.”

- Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

FORGIVENESS                           FORGIVENESS
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TRUST

TRUST

TRUST

Hawaii, 2015

sun mirror, away from me

 i see you, but you can't see

sun mirror, cracked and bent

i see you, but you can't see

sun mirror, your fire, your light

i see you, but you can't see 

sun mirror, let me be

"I'm here for you."

(your happiness is your responsibility) 

don't worry 'bout it. 

Generous

Kind

Thoughtful

Sincere

Mature

Trusting

Open

Communicative

Listener

Creative

Particular

Opinionated

Artistic

Intelligent

Earnest

Transparent

Relatable

Gentle

Affectionate

Passionate

Humorous
Adventurous
Active
Spiritual
Curious

“…consciously loosen your assemblage points and allow them to remain flexible. Take a quantum leap into the fluidity of unfixed beliefs and expanding realities. By flexibly choosing to move into the unknown, a complete and marvelous reordering of your world awaits you!”

my sexuality is not defined by you

my sexuality is not a gift to you

my sexuality is not entertainment for you

my sexuality is not defined by you

my sexuality is not a gift to you

my sexuality is not entertainment for you

my sexuality is not defined by you

my sexuality is not a gift to you

my sexuality is not entertainment for you

my sexuality is not defined by you

my sexuality is not a gift to you

my sexuality is not entertainment for you

my sexuality is not defined by you

my sexuality is not a gift to you

my sexuality is not entertainment for you

my sexuality is not defined by you

my sexuality is not a gift to you

my sexuality is not entertainment for you

don't forget to breathe

don't forget to breathe

don't forget to breathe

life is too short to be a coward 

Reality distortion field

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2016 MAGIC 

Peace peace. Thank you, Debra. Thank you, BET. Thank you Nate Parker,Harry and Debbie Allen for participating in that [video].

Before we get into it, I just want to say I brought my parents out tonight. I just want to thank them for being here, for teaching me to focus on comprehension over career, and that they make sure I learn what the schools were afraid to teach us. And also thank my amazing wife for changing my life.

Now, this award - this is not for me. This is for the real organizers all over the country, the activists, the civil rights attorneys, the struggling parents, the families, the teachers, the students that are realizing that a system built to divide and impoverish and destroy us cannot stand if we do.

It's kind of basic mathematics - the more we learn about who we are and how we got here, the more we will mobilize.

Now, this is also in particular for the black women in particular who have spent their lifetimes dedicated to nurturing everyone before themselves. We can and will do better for you.

Now, what we've been doing is looking at the data and we know that police somehow manage to deescalate, disarm and not kill white people everyday.So what's going to happen is we are going to have equal rights and justice in our own country or we will restructure their function and ours.

Now... I got more y'all - yesterday would have been young Tamir Rice's 14th birthday so I don't want to hear anymore about how far we've come when paid public servants can pull a drive-by on 12 year old playing alone in the park in broad daylight, killing him on television and then going home to make a sandwich. Tell Rekia Boyd how it's so much better to live in 2012 than it is to live in 1612, or 1712. Tell that to Eric Garner. Tell that to Sandra Bland. Tell that to Darrien Hunt.

Now the thing is, though, all of us in here getting money - that alone isn't gonna stop this. Alright, now dedicating our lives, dedicating our lives to getting money just to give it right back for someone's brand on our bodywhen we spent centuries praying with brands on our bodies, and now we pray to get paid for brands on our bodies.

There has been no war that we have not fought and died on the front lines of. There has been no job we haven't done. There is no tax they haven't levied against us - and we've paid all of them. But freedom is somehow always conditional here. "You're free," they keep telling us. But she would have been alive if she hadn't acted so... free.

Now, freedom is always coming in the hereafter, but you know what, though, the hereafter is a hustle. We want it now.

And let's get a couple things straight, just a little sidenote: the burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander. That's not our job, alright; stop with all that. If you have a critique for the resistance, for our resistance, then you better have an established record of critique of our oppression. If you have no interest—if you have no interest in equal rights for black people, then do not make suggestions to those who do. Sit down.

We've been floating this country on credit for centuries, yo, and we're done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil - black gold, ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit. The thing is though... the thing is that just because we're magic doesn't mean we're not real.

Thank you.

I 

fall 
in 
love 
everywhere 

I

go 

DIETER RAMS’ 10 PRINCIPLES FOR GOOD DESIGN

1. Good design is innovative: The possibilities for innovation are not, by any means, exhausted. Technological development is always offering new opportunities for innovative design. But innovative design always develops in tandem with innovative technology, and can never be an end in itself.

2. Good design makes a product useful: A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product while disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

3. Good design is aesthetic: The aesthetic quality of a product is integral to its usefulness because products are used every day and have an effect on people and their well-being. Only well-executed objects can be beautiful.

4. Good design makes a product understandable: It clarifies the product’s structure. Better still, it can make the product clearly express its function by making use of the user’s intuition. At best, it is self-explanatory.

5. Good design is unobtrusive: Products fulfilling a purpose are like tools. They are neither decorative objects nor works of art. Their design should therefore be both neutral and restrained, to leave room for the user’s self-expression.

6. Good design is honest: It does not make a product more innovative, powerful or valuable than it really is. It does not attempt to manipulate the consumer with promises that cannot be kept.

7. Good design is long-lasting: It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated. Unlike fashionable design, it lasts many years – even in today’s throwaway society.

8. Good design is thorough down to the last detail: Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the design process show respect towards the consumer.

9. Good design is environmentally friendly: Design makes an important contribution to the preservation of the environment. It conserves resources and minimizes physical and visual pollution throughout the lifecycle of the product.

10. Good design is as little design as possible: Less, but better – because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.

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Lifehack tip : 

When someone shares something with you, don't be so quick to think you know or say "I know". You probably don't really know, they may not either. Ask questions. Stay curious. Keep learning.