Garrison and his wife Alison are the Street Art duo Buxtonia. Creators of the Ad Hoc gallery which gave many a street artist their first show while creating a sense of connectedness between Street Artists, Graff writers, photographers, screen printers, and social activists who all responded to the high vibrational pull Alison and Garrison created. The duo now travels around the world collaborating with street artists and creating awesome pieces like the one featured in this post. Love them!
Monthly Archives: May 2014
Some wonderful people in Germany decided to save some cows from the slaughterhouse. So glad they did. Check out the beautiful reactions the cows have to being free. So moving. Enjoy!
Love this video by Charles Eisenstein. Humanity can create such a better world than the one we’ve been handed. The best is yet to come.
“Part of us wants collapse. Because the world that we live in isn’t good enough. We feel that the world is supposed to be much more beautiful that what’s offered to us as normal. Thinking to ourselves when do we get to enjoy the fruits of thousands of years of culture and technology? So it’s natural for us to want things to fall apart. We feel trapped and don’t know how to get out, how to live in a world where its normal to look strangers in the eyes, where it’s common to love your work and look forward to Monday and not even distinguish work from play. Education should be about finding out what form of work for you is close to being play—work you do so easily that it restores you as you go. Work should be enacting and strengthening that. Live in your element, which is that of the earth, which is that of creation, which is that of the Creator.” ~ Charles Eisenstein
Thanks to Sustainable Man for this post.
“True autonomy arises when we have broken free of all the old structures, all psychological dependencies, and all fear. Only then can that which is truly unique and fearless arise within us and begin to express itself. Such expression cannot be planned or even imagined because it belongs to a dimension uninhibited by anything that has come before it. True autonomy is not trying to fit in or be understood, nor is it a revolt against anything. It is an uncaused phenomenon. Consciously or unconsciously all beings aspire to it, but very few find the courage to step into that infinity of aloneness.” ~Adyashanti
Artist unknown.
Thanks to Shamantube for this post.
Boasting five types of kale, 23 kinds of heirloom tomatoes, strawberry plants, microgreens, and five varieties each of squash, eggplant, hot and sweet peppers, basil and more, the greenhouse garden at Henry Ford Hospital features an extensive hydroponics system and an exquisite lobby for entertaining, teaching kids and hosting events. Putting health back into hospitals. Love this idea!
“Authenticity is not something we have or don’t have. It’s a practice — a conscious choice of how we want to live. Authenticity is actually a collection of choices, choices that we make every day. It’s the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.” ~Brené Brown
Street Art by Banksy
“The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.” ~ Terence McKenna
“You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops. Weakened by my soulful cries. Does my haughtiness offend you? Don’t you take it awful hard ‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines Diggin’ in my own back yard. You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise. Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I’ve got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.” ~Maya Angelou
Thanks to Do It Girl for this post.
Beloved and prolific American author, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou has died at 86. The world has lost such a beautiful light today and I would like to take this moment to honor her for all the amazing gifts she so generously shared with us throughout her life. I will forever be touched and inspired by her beautiful soul.
“I believe that each of us comes from the creator trailing wisps of glory.” ~Maya Angelou
You Love not because that person belongs to your family. You love not because he is of the same religious belief as you. You love not because he is your son, she is your daughter or your wife. You Love because that person needs to be Loved. That’s all. You Love without conditions whatsoever. It means unconditional love. You Love in order to bring relief to that person, to transform the suffering in that person, to offer joy to him, to offer happiness to him because he needs that.. You don’t ask for anything in return… ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Source ~ Sageword