edithjmodel-ographer:

fabulous woman

So beautiful

edithjmodel-ographer:

fabulous woman

So beautiful

anniedidntdoit:

i live for the funk.

theparisreview:

“What I am is not important, whether I live or die—
   It is the same for me, the same for you.
What we do is important. This is what I have learnt.
   It is not what we are but what we do,”

Says a child in exile, one of a family
   Once happy in its size. Now there are four
Students of calamity, graduates of famine,
   Those whom geography condems to war,

Who have settled here perforce in a strange country,
   Who are not even certain where they are.
They have learnt much. There is much more to learn.
   Each heart bears a diploma like a scar—

A red seal, always hot, always solid,
   Stamped with the figure of an overseer,
A lethal boy who has learnt to despatch with a mattock,
   Who rules a village with sharp leaves and fear.

—James Fenton, “Children in Exile”

Photography Credit Joe Nigel Coleman

theparisreview:

It was our favorite pastime, to be sure,
those hairs waiting to be split, those pieces
that passed understanding. We thought we’d find
some sense in their words, our hammers harping
against those faces we had so admired,
their hearts simply bursting with expression
as pursuing or pursued they choked on

those sensations—all that vivid color
in our cheeks, their hair just slightly aflame.
And those cities, the ruins, that husbandry
chopped to bits—so very clever, so fine.
And those parchments they made, all those endless
petitions so unnatural to our hearts?
Each thought yielded another thought, until

we simply ran out of definitions!
Their only explanation was they loved
words that had striking force, a sign sounding
in their minds, while ripping out their throats. So,
when they finally finished crying, puzzled,
we made everything mean only itself.
Banging their tombs shut, we made their world real.

—Shawn Sturgeon, “Babylonian Surprise”
Photography Credit Cristin Sloan

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How You Can Help Fix Our Half Democracy - by David Mizner

The United States is no longer a democracy: you’ve heard that claim. Usually the people making it are referring to corporate control of our political system, or perhaps the erosion of our rights. But in a very literal sense, American democracy is in trouble: barely half of us, if that, vote.

Illustration by Tyler Hoehne
AD: Jessica De Jesus 

VOTEEEEEEEEE

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As we remember this day, let’s continue to look forward to the progress of tomorrow.

33 photos on the progress of One World Trade Center via The Atlantic