Find the frequency you want to be on and just vibe.

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Find perspective.

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How The Face Changes With Shifting A Light Source

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An incredibly important pair of people (boyfriend and new best friend) teamed up to make musical artistry together recently and I couldn’t be more excited.

Though, this is not that exact recording, this is a preview of what the song they recorded together will sound like, with it’s perfect Tea Leigh lo-fi allure.

Also, a video will be released soon.

Message from Tea:

“I haven’t written or recorded a folk song in quite some time. the lo fi is back, so turn your volume down. this song means a lot to me, enjoy.

Tea Leigh”

Breaking News:

Black people are no longer the sole proprietors of the ‘matchy-matchy’ stigma, coworkers have caught on.

::cue Law & Order ching ching::

Me and Meghan Golden, looking good @EdelmanDigital.

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Question to ask yourself before creating anything:

Because, why not?

Create. With. Abandon.

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Hense - 700 Delaware (2012) - Mural on abandoned church

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Exactly.

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She’s got it.

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Today’s thoughts:

How can you tell another, “It’s going to be okay,” and mean it?

 I once read Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s “Solitude of Self” in a class, and though I wasn’t aware at the time, I was reading the responsibilities of being.

School doesn’t actually teach things, just like the media doesn’t actually report news. So how is one supposed to learn the rules and regulations of arriving at a self?

Good. You’re thinking.

Because solitude, introspection and empathy aren’t entertaining by nature, the world constantly reveals its agenda:

[we only know what works for us, so you should probably do it, because we know it “works.”]

Though it sounds scary, feels uncomfortable and seems antisocial, to act alone is true bravery and that’s powerful against any reckoning.

I once learned from a therapist that relationships cease to work when one party realizes the other’s thoughts and actions don’t often match up.

But we know this feeling. Isn’t it precisely the moment when denial kicks you in the throat and pulls your brain down to your gut? That moment internal frustration kicks in and you realize you haven’t stood up for your beliefs or haven’t acted on that dream? When you defer to complacency over working hard to be independent.

If going to Quaker school has taught me anything, it’s that listening and acting on the inner voice is much like acting in the name of the collective unconscious. When we are moved to action, the spirit and energy of the universe is working.

Don’t second guess the universe and your strength over it.

Do not hesitate.

Do not stall.

Trust your being.

To guide our own craft, we must be captain, pilot, engineer; with chart and compass to stand at the wheel; to watch the winds and waves, and know when to take in the sail, and to read the signs in the firmament over all.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “The Solitude of Self” The Woman’s Column, January 1882.

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“The universe is in us.”

Next time you feel small, tell yourself:

“My atoms came from those stars”

And remember how big, beautiful, bold, honest, courageous, and open you are.

Then, appreciate the connectivity and closeness inside you and be grateful for the phenomenal ability to change that you possess.

When the HBO show, “Girls“ first came out I clung to it because of my affinity for awkward hilarity and its endearing portrayal of the humiliating twenty-something experience.

Now, after having read a bunch of articles on Dunham-criticisms, Twitter-controversies and the like, I’ve found the answer to the gripes I have with the show in the book, “Ernest Hemingway On Writing.”

An excerpt on the racial controversy surrounding “Girls”, published on TheWeek.com last May:

Dunham directly addressed those critiques in an interview with NPR, arguing that she based the show on her own experiences as a “half-Jew, half-WASP.” She felt she couldn’t write truthfully about an African American girl living in New York, and wanted to avoid tokenism when casting the show.

The enlightening quote by Hemingway:

A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

Hollow writing comes from hollow people living hollow lives, but you don’t perceive yourself to be empty, do you?

Loneliness is different than emptiness. Where loneliness evokes longing and lusts after connectivity, emptiness seeks immediate replenishment despite depth. Loneliness requires intimacy and emptiness requires bite-sized, adrenaline-gushing experience to feel whole.

Of course, becoming yourself is a lonely process, but feeling empty and the inability to relate comes from experiences that have not been digested properly.

Think about it.

The universe pulls people in different trajectories, toward different people and the mind accelerates the process of these experiences by making judgments.

People regret more than they learn. Hate more than they love. Miss more than they take risks.

If we don’t take time to appreciate our place in the universe, the people we meet, find our purpose and recognize that everyone is brought together to inform each others’ stories, humanity will never become peaceful, wholesome and without judgement.

I know Lena Dunham is barely an adult and since this is her first time becoming famous, I wish I could give her a break, but that’s all the more reason to hold a public figure accountable for their ignorant, exclusive societal commentary.

If you grew up in a city — let alone THE New York City, crawling with segregated diversity, wouldn’t you feel the need to portray life as it is — the horrors, the filth, the beauty and the serendipity of your home?

A city twisted with perversions slightly more filthy and corrupt than the mind of a selfish twenty-something would urge anyone to scribble down semblances of thoughts just to make sense of it all.

I know she means well, and meant to do justice to this experience of “making it” as a young woman, but I’m not taking “I don’t know how,” as an answer to leaving out everything else. She, and whoever else wants to be “the voice of a generation,” is going to have to try much harder to be empathetic.

While figuring out what we don’t know yet, who we don’t exactly understand, and what we haven’t yet experienced — we try to become ourselves.

And that’s all life ever is, right?  Trying?

Taking out my existential funk on Google always reaffirms my theory that the search engine personifies the world brain.

In this TEDxBoston talk, given by Jean Baptiste-Michel and Erez Lieberman Aiden, you can learn a brief history of language and writing from 5 million books and Google Labs’ Ngram Viewer.

What have you learned lately?

If this was my work, I’d call it “he evolution of self.”

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These beautiful Petri dish paintings are released daily by Karl Reis.

This specific gorgeosity (I made it up, what of it?) was published on my birthday this year, entitled:

Eggplants in the Snow