Suits was streamed for 3 billion minutes on #Netflix and its #writers were paid a collective $3,000 in residuals. And that’s why they are striking. https://nofilmschool.com/suits-residuals #writer #strike #writing #WritingCommunity #streaming #film #movies #series

Remember when people had diaries…

#nature #photography : Kent Burgess

THE WAYS OF THE GARDEN by Kent Burgess

About — THE WAYS OF THE GARDEN by Kent Burgess

#nature #photography #birds #flowers #bloomscrolling

"Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded." — Suheir Hammad, spoken word poet #palestine #poetry #activism #psychology #news #politics

‘The failure to write a proper #book...is not just a personal failure. It is a failure to rise to the heights, failure to approach the stature of those who have demonstrated that life is the miracle it is, those enlightened, luminous beings who are the antidote to death culture, to a vision of humanity with its feet mired in the mud of Hades, to industrial slaves toiling in eternal servitude, to meaninglessness, heartlessness, absurdity.' —Jeff Gross, World of Midgets #books #motivation #art

Kitchen #poetry Shucking corn and shocked, in turn by all the layers of exquisite ears guarding its secret silken tresses and blonde beauty. #food #nature #writing #photography

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin

#Today's #meditation : Remembering how far we've come is a spur to how far we can go.

Quarantine Notes

#motivation #hope #growth #healing

#Art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes #prayer, too, in the eye of the storm. Art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction. — Saul Bellow #quotes #literature #meditation

I’ve just heard from Wardah #Books that they ordered copies of my new #book, Quarantine Notes (Fomite, 2023). Wardah Books is a fine #bookstore, located in #Singapore, that specializes in Sufism, Islamic History & #Philosophy. Kindly, consider suggesting Quarantine Notes to your local bookstore or let me know if there’s one I should approach? Many thanks, for your support 🪷 @npub1kt3h...5004 #bookstodon #SilentSunday #reading #writing #WritingCommunity #poetry #inspiration #motivation

‘This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all. * Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next. ― Rumi #Translation : Coleman Barks #poetry #spirituality #inspiration #faith

'To be a successful #artist it is necessary to be open, completely open. But...being open for the audience also means opening yourself up to the poisons in the air' — Jeff Gross, World of Midgets #books #literature #quote

#Today's #meditation : 🪷 It's the harpoon that makes the prey elusive. 🪷

Quarantine Notes

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'Men of a single thought have taken the lead.' — Prophet Muhammad ﷺ ✨ 'Purity of heart is to will one thing.' — Sören Kierkegaard #quotes #motivation #spirituality

Poems clear the air so anyone can see from here to there ...having made us so porous I can suddenly be you — Rachel Hadas #poetry #WritingCommunity #inspiration #reading

Think of social media as shared air; be kind, oxygenate it.

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Quarantine Notes: Aphorisms on Morality and Mortality

"Yahia Lababidi's work is characterized by a contemplat…

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‘To write exceptional #books, you must live an exceptional #life... The #writer as the conscious manifestation of many lives, many places... A reality glued together by chance, by the winds, by all that comes free.... To glide through invisibly, observing, leaving things untouched...’ — Jeff Gross, World of Midgets

‘The #artist: the one who has gone places that the spectator knows he himself would go if only he had the time, the energy, the courage. The spectator responds with applause, with money, because the artist must continue to devote himself, must keep going. His effort keeps #beauty alive for all of us, his example shows us what is possible, shows us what we might become, reminds us what it means to be alive.’ — Jeff Gross, World of Midgets @npub1kt3h...5004 #motivation #art

Healthy, homemade lunch : Air-fried turkey meatballs & asparagus oven-roasted eggplant with cinnamon & wilted spinach 👨🏻‍🍳 #food #foodporn #foodie #healthcare #health #selfcare #photography #photo #recipe

Sunflowers by Emile Nolde (1881) #art #artist #painting #bloomscrolling