abc dot efg

Jeff Russo, Who is Dot? Fargo Year 5 (Soundtrack from the MGM/ FXP Series).

AG2023_1077719a or your wind-tossed travels

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“No handshakes. No goodbyes. But
separated in the crowd, and each with a little wave,”

Lloyd Schwartz, In Flight

“Strange black and princely pirates of the skies,
   Would that your wind-tossed travels I could know!
Would that my soul could see, and, seeing, rise
   To unrestricted life where ebb and flow
   Of Nature’s pulse would constitute a wider life below!

Could I but live just here in Freedom’s arms,
   A kingly life without a sovereign’s care!”

Emily Pauline Johnson, The Flight of the Crows


AG2023_1066443a or shadow, imagination, and freedom

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“There is a tree, by day,
That, at night,
Has a shadow,
A hand huge and black,
With fingers long and black.”

Angelina Weld Grimké, Tenebris



“To be free after all, is not to be undisciplined. I should say that the discipline of the imagination may in fact be the essential method or technique of both art and science.
[…]
To discipline something, in the proper sense of the word, does not mean to repress it, but to train it–to encourage it to grow, and act, and be fruitful, whether it is a peach tree or a human mind. “

The lifespan of awe

“The lifespan of awe”

“Get lost in the magic of the place.”

“[My] job is to gauge an appetite for the new. I broker possibilities.”

-Christopher Bollen, The Lost Americans