Monday, December 23, 2019

donald trump | the windmills of his mind



We’ll have an economy based on wind.
I never understood wind.

You know, I know windmills very much.
I've studied it better than anybody I know.
It's very expensive.
They're made in China and Germany mostly —
very few made here, almost none.

But they're manufactured tremendous —
if you're into this —
tremendous fumes.
Gases are spewing into the atmosphere.

You know we have a world, right?
So the world is tiny compared to the universe.
So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes and everything.
You talk about the carbon footprint —
fumes are spewing into the air.
Right? Spewing.
Whether it's in China, Germany, it's going into the air.
It's our air, their air, everything —
right?"


White House transcript of President Trump's speech to the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit, West Palm Beach, Saturday December 21, 2019

Friday, December 13, 2019

nicole gregory | there is a vault of literature


He said, “There is a vault of literature.”
I asked him “Have you been in it?”
He nodded his head and said,
“The beast of Shakespeare, the beast of Shakespeare.”


Conversation with a homeless man

Wednesday, December 04, 2019

luci shaw | christ in you, the hope of glory


Months later, with the seed of God
rounding her belly with promise,
I wonder, was Mary restless at night,
her back aching, and soft stirrings
waking her from slumber?

Elizabeth understood, better than
a man. When they got together,
and the cousins in their wombs leaped
towards each other, quivering
with recognition, what hopes and dreams
did the mothers share? Did they guess
the end of the story for their sons?
For us?

And young as mary, old as Elizabeth,
woman or man, don't we each long to
feel the seed of God shifting within us,
a guarantee of now and future glory?


Christmas 2019

Friday, November 15, 2019

every picture tells a story | rod stewart's model railway

"I find beauty in what everyone else sees as ugly — rugged skyscrapers, beaten-up warehouses, things that are very run down. When I take on something like this, I have to give it 110 per cent. For me, it's addictive. I started, so I just had to finish."








dark waters | image book

The “Dark Waters” Image Book consisted of forty-six laminated pages that followed the linear and thematic trajectory of Bilott’s crusade, a sort of map of director Todd Haynes’s ideas for the movie’s visual language.

The album also included a list of the painters and photographers Haynes had chosen to inform the film’s palette and perspective, among them Gerhard Richter, Gordon Parks, Andreas Gursky, William Eggleston, Stephen Shore, and Joel Meyerowitz.




richter





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eggleston








stephen shore










joel meyerowitz

originally posted Nov 6, 2019