The Adventures of Lily and Kosmo

Trump on climate change be like: "Snowing in Texas and Louisiana, record setting freezing temperatures throughout the country and beyond. Global warming is an expensive hoax!" "Ice storm rolls from Texas to Tennessee - I'm in Los Angeles and it's freezing. Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax!" During an interview in 2015, he said he was a climate change denier. "I believe in clean air. Immaculate air.... But I don't believe in climate change."

A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose. Avi, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle #blackandbridge #ri #windsofchange

Traveling #ri #bridges

So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn’t like my parents. I didn’t have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States…. and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with its lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal. Kurt Vonnegut #blackandwhite #nyc #brooklyn (at 20 Jay Street)

No sun is shining anymore The only thing I feel is pain Caused by absence of you Suspense is controlling my mind I cannot find the way out of here I want you by my side So that I never feel alone again And I want you We can bring it on the floor You’ve never danced like this before But we don’t talk about it Dancin on doin the boogie all night long Stoned in paradise Shouldn’t talk about it And I want you We can bring it on the floor You’ve never danced like this before But we don’t talk about it Dancin on doin the boogie all night long #capo

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. -E.E. Cummings #scofieldthayer #strokeofgenius #met #moma #thedial strokeofgeniusmovie.com

Someone just “dared” me to smile. Folks I’m about the biggest goofball you’ll ever meet don’t let the “lydianoir” fool you!

Chapter 1. “He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion...no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out of proportion. Yeah. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin.' Uh, no let me start this over. 'Chapter 1. He was too romantic about Manhattan, as he was about everything else. He thrived on the hustle bustle of the crowds and the traffic. To him, New York meant beautiful women and street-smart guys who seemed to know all the angles...'. Ah, corny, too corny for my taste. Can we ... can we try and make it more profound? 'Chapter 1. He adored New York City. For him, it was a metaphor for the decay of contemporary culture. The same lack of individual integrity that caused so many people to take the easy way out was rapidly turning the town of his dreams in...' No, that's going to be too preachy. I mean, you know, let's face it, I want to sell some books here. 'Chapter 1. He adored New York City, although to him it was a metaphor for the decay of contemporary culture. How hard it was to exist in a society desensitized by drugs, loud music, television, crime, garbage...' Too angry, I don't want to be angry. 'Chapter 1. He was as tough and romantic as the city he loved. Behind his black-rimmed glasses was the coiled sexual power of a jungle cat.' I love this. 'New York was his town, and it always would be.” WA #charlesstreet #westvillage #nyc (at West Village)

We need a place," she said, "just for us. It would be so secret that we would never tell anyone in the whole world about it." ... She lowered her voice almost to a whisper. "It might be a whole secret country," she continued, "and you and I would be the rulers of it. Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia #blackandwhite

One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing. Jeff Goodell #truedat #wakeup

“IN THE HANDS OF MAN He who creates a poison, also has the cure. He who creates a virus, also has the antidote. He who creates chaos, also has the ability to create peace. He who sparks hate, also has the ability to transform it to love. He who creates misery, also has the ability to destroy it with kindness. He who creates sadness, also has the ability to to covert it to happiness. He who creates darkness, can also be awakened to produce illumination. He who spreads fear, can also be shaken to spread comfort. Any problems created by the left hand of man, Can also be solved with the right, For he who manifests anything, Also has the ability to Destroy it.” Suzy Kassem #blackandwhite

White wash #blackandwhite

Light thinking. #paintedlight #blackandblue #cloudporn #foggybrain #friday

My Rufus: a Man of many words. And also, tantrums. #silvertone #blackandwhite #hesabitchwithpitch #catahoulaleoparddog #hounds #rufusgeorge #dupsterdogs (at Endolane Farm)

#infrastructure #blackandwhite