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These are posts featuring illustrations designed by John LeMasney. In general, unless otherwise noted, they are licensed CC-Attribution, cc-by lemasney, and should contain a citation and linkback.

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You do not have to be good – Mary Oliver cc-by lemasney

You do not have to be good - Mary Oliver cc-by lemasney
You do not have to be good - Mary Oliver cc-by lemasney
You do not need to be good - Mary Oliver cc-by lemasney
You do not need to be good – Mary Oliver cc-by lemasney
You do not have to be good - Mary Oliver cc-by lemasney
You do not have to be good – Mary Oliver cc-by lemasney

These are two takes on illustrating a part of the lovely poem by Mary Oliver below. Incidentally, I also decided to use Prezi to see if I could animate the quote:

WILD GEESE by Mary Oliver

“Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine…”   You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the

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All the world is made of – JMBarrie cc-by lemasney

All the world is made of - JMBarrie cc-by lemasney
All the world is made of - JMBarrie cc-by lemasney
All the world is made of - JMBarrie cc-by lemasney
All the world is made of – JMBarrie cc-by lemasney

These are two takes on the same quote, J.M. Barrie’s All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust. This is very much a shared philosophy of mine. I feel that as I remove and reduce the things around me, removing the noise, that other truths become especially clear: What life is. What our intent should be. How things work in a holistic system. And after seeing those truths (at least truth

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Meanwhile, on Facebook… Stage directions

John has an idea on Facebook.
John has an idea on Facebook.
John has an idea on Facebook.
John has an idea on Facebook.

I had a thought about the limits of emoticons.

So you know when you are chatting with someone, and you write something with a smile on your face and it is interpreted as though you were scowling? 🙁 Some would argue that emoticons, (forming emotional *mostly* facial expressions made of joint text) solve the problem of emotional context in chat. I thank that perhaps the coming verbal age of emoji (icons in text exchanges) might just make this idea irrelevant, in fact. But in lieu of faces and body language and environmental context, I think

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Walk as if you are kissing – Thich Nhat Hanh cc-by lemasney

Walk as if you are kissing - Thich Nhat Hanh cc-by lemasney
Walk as if you are kissing - Thich Nhat Hanh cc-by lemasney
Walk as if you are kissing - Thich Nhat Hanh cc-by lemasney
Walk as if you are kissing – Thich Nhat Hanh cc-by lemasney

Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.

– Thich Nhat Hanh

“Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is a global spiritual leader, poet and peace activist, revered throughout the world for his powerful teachings and bestselling writings on mindfulness and peace. His key teaching is that, through mindfulness, we can learn to live happily in the present moment—the only

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Act without doing work without effort – Tao Te Ching cc-by lemasney

Act without doing work without effort - Tao Te Ching cc-by lemasney
Act without doing work without effort - Tao Te Ching cc-by lemasney
Act without doing work without effort - Tao Te Ching cc-by lemasney
Act without doing work without effort – Tao Te Ching cc-by lemasney

“When people see things as beautiful,  ugliness is created.  When people see things as good,  evil is created.   Being and non-being produce each other.  Difficult and easy complement each other.  Long and short define each other.  High and low oppose each other.  Fore and aft follow each other.   Therefore the Master  can act without doing anything  and teach without saying a word.  Things come her way and she does not stop them;  things leave and she lets them go.  She has without

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We want nights of vague adventure – Gwendolyn Brooks cc-by lemasney

We want nights of vague adventure - Gwendolyn Brooks cc-by lemasney
We want nights of vague adventure - Gwendolyn Brooks cc-by lemasney
We want nights of vague adventure - Gwendolyn Brooks cc-by lemasney
We want nights of vague adventure – Gwendolyn Brooks cc-by lemasney

We want nights of vague adventure – Gwendolyn Brooks cc-by lemasney

“Now, at 77, Gwendolyn Brooks, perhaps our greatest living poet, has been chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities to deliver the 1994 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. She will speak today in Washington and next week in Chicago. This is the highest honor the federal government bestows for intellectual achievement in the humanities. It was given because she has

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