“How monotonous our speaking becomes when we speak only to ourselves! And how insulting to the other beings — to foraging black bears and twisted old cypresses — that no longer sense us talking to them, but only about them, as though they were not present in our world….Small wonder that rivers and forests no longer compel our focus or our fierce devotion. For we walk about such entities only behind their backs, as though they were not participant in our lives. Yet if we no longer call out to the moon slipping between the clouds, or whisper to the spider setting the silken struts of her web, well, then the numerous powers of this world will no longer address us — and if they still try, we will not likely hear them.” - David Abram (Becoming Animal)
Images above: Some of the winning photographs from the German Nature Photographers’ 2013 Photographs of the Year competition.
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is your plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver
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Meet the ladies of LADYPOINTS Season One! - Edition #3
AIMEE BROWN
Aimee is a performance artist and freelance hairstylist. She cuts hair in her Brooklyn apartment, getting to know her clients and providing them with great cuts that fit their lifestyle.
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Women’s History Month: March 3, Warsan Shire
Warsan Shire is a London-based, Kenyan-born, Somali writer whose powerful poetry has left me blown away each time I read it. In her book of poetry “Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth” Shire explores the relationship of women’s bodies to war and displacement.Some of my favorite poems by Shire are “I’m Not Sad” and “For Women Who Are Difficult to Love.”
Check out this interview if you’d like to learn more. If you’re a writer or poet or someone who just enjoys being knocked off your feet by words, read all the poetry!
“If our secrets are secrets because we are told to be ashamed, then we must share them.”
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It is easy to feel disheartened in fields where men consistently dominate in representation, but LADYPOINTS seeks to de-mystify these assumptions and prove that women, in fact, are leading amazing projects of their own. We want to provide a resource for women to see their potential in the creative arts, no matter their age, race, class, sexuality, size, or ability. We want to show that you have the power to create amazing things.Please check out our Kickstarter for more info on how to contribute - and check out our donation rewards, provided by our gracious and talented LADYPOINTS contributors.Thanks, everyone!Love,the LADYPOINTS Webseries Team
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