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Joan Mitchell. Heel, Sit, Stay. 1977.
Oil on canvas.
110 1/4 x 126 1/2 inches (280 x 321.3 cm)
“Stay afraid but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.”
— Carrie Fisher
“Be good to people for no reason.”
— Unknown
BbyMutha - Nice/Nasty
“The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.”
Diana Vreeland.
bumper stickers by clare wigney, 2023, oil on canvas, 72 × 52 × 1.6 inches
Housecleaning
by Nikki Giovanni
i always liked house cleaning even as a child i dug straightening the cabinets posting new paper on the shelves washing the refrigerator inside out and unfortunately this habit has carried over and i find i must remove you from my life
"It’s not enough to be nice in life. You’ve got to have nerve."
– Georgia O’Keeffe
The time between time
All thought is a limitation.
A Burst of Light, Audre Lorde
...Sit in a store where they have sugar. (That is, go to someone who says sweet things.) (Rumi)
... به دکان کسی بنشین/ که در دکان شکر دارد
Cindy le Coeur, Unknown, Congo
“Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it becomes no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.”
– Audre Lorde, The Uses of Anger (1981)
A Las Vegas Aces Tribute to Nikki
“to find the joy.... is something that I will always now remember with Coach McCray... In anything that we do find the joy in that and live through that and shine bright through that and that is Coach McCray.”
A'ja Wilson [referring to Nikki McCary - Penson}
“All relationships have one law: never make the one you love feel alone, especially when you’re there.”
— Unknown
Knowing when to go home is important.