Day 9
3 boxes for hiding things
2 stands for model cars long lost
1 poster
3 more magazines
Day 8
8 magazines destined for reuse
Day 7
Made it through week #1! 3 more to go, along with 468 things.
candle holder
a Dutch windmill trinket (sorry Aunt Cheryl)
that thing that no one actually uses to keep cables organized
4 model cars
Day 6
This is becoming less easy and I’m not even a week in. Yikes.
old wallet
empty photoalbum
floppy disks
techie manual
plastic storage baggies
glasses cleaning kit
Day 5
1 football
1 kickstand for a bike
3 pillow cases
Day 4
1 toolbox
1 trinket
1 candle
1 rock
Day 3
3 dress shirts
Minimalism Game Days 1 & 2
I’ve got a lot of stuff and it’s time some of it found a new home.
Over the next 30 days, I’ll be getting rid of things, starting with 1 thing for yesterday (the 1st), 2 things today (the 2nd), three things tomorrow (the 3rd) and so on, up until 31 for the days of June. That’s a total of 496 things that I’ll either be donating, selling or (gulp) throwing away. It’s easy to think that’s a lot--let’s be real, it is--but I’ve certainly got enough shit that it seems wildly attainable.
I’ll be tracking my things here to keep myself accountable. So here it goes.
Day #1: 1 Cardboard box
Day #2: 2 Magazines
Shout out to The Minimalists for the inspiration.
Why do emails take so long to write. Just spent an hour wringing out three sentences... Is there such thing as emailer writers block?
crumbrye reblogged
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
Bruce Lee (via quotethat)
Modern Music
3Monkeys interviews Asaf Avidan on Songwriting as Surgery:
TMO: We’re living in an age where it’s increasingly easy for musicians to distribute their music, but with that comes a change in how people listen. How important is the album format for you? Would you hope that people listen to albums in sequence, or do the songs stand alone happily?
Avidan: I’m not sure that the change in the way people listen to music now, is caused only by distribution means… I think it has to do with a larger cultural change of how we intake art and information. I find it hard. I love the album format, and it hurts that we are going back to a single oriented world, after all the artists that layer on the wire fence, and fought for the album format, in the sixties and seventies. Songs to me should always be able to stand alone, and have a complete roundness and wholeness to them… but the accumulation of a sequence of songs in a specific order, has an added value… a power to tell a more detailed story, with layers and complexity.
Moby once said that music, at it's core, is nothing more than compressed air channeled through the ear in a varied sequence, its vibrations manifesting the emotions, feelings, and thoughts that we cherish so much (slightly paraphrased. ok, very paraphrased). The results are timeless, however the music--its creation, its distribution, its consumption--evolves with the ages. Avidan offers a compelling perspective on music in the modern age, even citing the clash between art and information that headlines our era. Here's the full read for more:
If you love a place you have a duty to protect it. But to love a place you must first know the place." -Jeff Johnson, 180° South
magnificentruin-deactivated2015
Nothing is more destructive to a community, to creativity, than the desire to be seen as a good person and the deceptions that are mobilized to make that happen.
Stephen Berg, The Poetry Does Not Matter (via nevver)
Source: magnificentruin.com
My body has bruises from the words you told me.
“10 Word Poem" (via blowties)
crumbrye reblogged
people that criticize others for liking certain things that bring happiness and joy into their lives need to be sucked into the vacuum of space and also slapped.
Couldn't agree more.
Love don't mean nothing
Unless it means something,
Worth fighting for,
Love, it's a beautiful war.
Battled and bruised,
Ripped and torn,
Voice shot, eyes heavy
I see you in the doorway,
Hands on your hips,
Not talking-- telling.
I quell this burn of resent.
Times like these,
Remind us of a warmth inside,
This one igniting my fire,
Burning,
Burning...
Let's hang up the towel,
Of this sorrowful tale,
It's time we stopped pretending.
Love exists, for both you and i,
But ours is beat,
It's time for us to accept,
To move on, to be free.
Love don't mean nothing
Unless it means something,
Worth fighting for,
Love, it's a beautiful war.
Love, it's a beautiful war.
(an interpretation of Beautiful War by KOL)
Valuable Dirt
"Agribusiness is not interested in farming, that is, in sustaining the soil. Agribusiness mines the soil, and tries its damnedest to addict the soil to chemicals that are disasters to it and, in the long term, to us. And soil, in the long run, is what sustains us." - David Brower
How do we reverse the cycle? Agribusiness - the Goliath - is chugging right along, with no signs of slowing down, forcing our evolutionary path to adapt far ahead of schedule. Community gardens and sustainable home growing is a good place to start, with a strong community to provide support and resources, but can the combination really be enough? There has to be more we can do. Start from the ground up, with grassroots campaigns and community building? Or aim for the beast's head? Maybe the answer is both. Both are happening, from local food banks to lobbying on the hill, but the uncertainty of future makes me think we need more. More help, much quicker, starting with soil.