A man from the town of Negua, on the coast of Colombia, could climb inot the sky.

On his return, he described his trip.  He told how he had contemplated human life from on high.  He said we are a sea of tiny flames.

"The world," he revealed, "is a heap of people, a sea of tiny flames."

Each person shines with his or her own light.  No two flames are alike.  There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color.  Some people’s flames are so still they don’t even flicker in the wind, while others have wild flames that fill the air with sparks.  Some foolish flames neither burn nor shed light, but others blaze with life so fiercely that you can’t look at them without blinking and if you approach, you shine in fire.

diane arbus

copper is the only raw material that both conducts & grounds electricity. 

jane jacobs

nayyirah waheed

charles bukowski