Jack Spratt

120813 11:12 faction
Next time I'd like to be a female nurse or a man with a body like Mikhail Baryshnikov. Otherwise no meatball; just me with a memory a bit less erased than this time around.

And I'd like to live again in a time when the greatest minority had parity with men. Maybe a virginal Sister Religious Buddhist or Catholic doesn't matter much to me now or then.

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
"Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence."
"Art is the proper task of life."
"Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men."
"Artists have a vested interest in our believing in the flash of revelation, the so-called inspiration… shining down from heavens as a ray of grace. In reality, the imagination of the good artist or thinker produces continuously good, mediocre or bad things, but his judgment, trained and sharpened to a fine point, rejects, selects, connects… All great artists and thinkers are great workers, indefatigable not only in inventing, but also in rejecting, sifting, transforming, ordering." --1878 book, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits + vision
"But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!"
" Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell. "
"For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously."
**" That which does not kill us makes us stronger. "
"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths." 
"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
**"What does not kill me, makes me stronger."
"We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.  We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them.  It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it.  Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times."
"What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome."
"What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil."
"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star."
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I never had a chance to exercise my imagination on photo assignments. It was mostly intuition and reflexes; what the old dudes on the street taught me was f8 and be there.

Then some time ago I began to realize that I'd been put to pasture, not a stud farm, just a place to wait until I died. It was than I began to ask for something to do besides wait for the end and gee golly wiz look at me on my tricycle moving at light speed fantastic no hands laughing out loud.

I can see it their eyes, those like me lost forever, and with a few gentle questions we're into the daddy raped me rag. The the two step and finally Bojangels, tambourine and pet dancing on sidewalks just' a smiling at the applause. . . . and me striding on.

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