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Love, Creativity, Curiosity


I gotta put this down somewhere just so I can remember what matters when I can't hear myself. Why love, creativity, and curiosity matter the most to me and should matter more to us all. 

Love
To be a part of, to draw from, to give to, and live with community. One, or a few, or many, but to live for each other, to foster connection, in recognition and celebration of our individual and collective humanity.

To live in gratitude, and to express gratitude, for all we have and all that has been given to us, through all means.

Creativity
To experience, and seek to experience.

And to express what that experience means to us, how it has affected us, changed us, supported us, and connects us to each other. To express this

Curiosity
To learn, to seek to learn, to develop and create new knowledge and come into understanding and possession of new thoughts, ideas, truths, facts, realities, and values.

To teach, to foster curiosity, growth, and love of learning in others. To inform and seek to inform through learning.


"Do something for joy that has absolutely nothing to do with white supremacy."
-Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson

"All portents are revelations about how to successfully wrangle with our problems, perpetrate liberation, ameliorate suffering, find redemption, and perform ingenious tweaks that liberate us from our mind-forged manacles. They always have the potential to help us discover the deeper meanings beneath our experiences."
-Rob Brezny

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." - JFK

“The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”
-Robert Henri

"Only art penetrates what pride, passion, intelligence and habit erect on all sides – the seeming realities of this world. There is another reality, the genuine one, which we lose sight of. This other reality is always sending us hints, which without art, we can’t receive. Proust calls these hints our “true impressions.” The true impressions, our persistent intuitions, will, without art, be hidden from us and we will be left with nothing but a ‘terminology for practical ends’ which we falsely call life."
— Saul Bellow, on science and art from his Nobel lecture in 1976.

"Nothing sublimely artistic has ever arisen out of mere art … There must always be a rich moral soil for any artistic growth."
— G.K. Chesterton

"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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