Jonathan Schultz

And even Tuesday can contain the kind of sad news upon which a life may turn.

The French trashed the McDonalds, looted the Apple Store and Luis Vuitton's hand bags. All run by global billionaires. But they left the French Chicken shop untouched.

🧵 Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was an Austrian artist & one of the greatest expressionists. His drawing style is unique in art. A feature of a great artist is that his or her work is instantly identifiable. Self-portrait. [1]

I speak well, do I not, for a man in my situation? And what is this coming that was not our coming and this being that is not our being and this going that will not be our going but the coming and being and going in purposelessness? — Samuel Beckett, Watt

Daily birds 82 - Striped Owl

From David Graeber's piece, 'Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!' davidgraeber.org/articles/are...

Focusing on Right Effort with the help of the Sabbāsava Sutta.

Maintenance day at the temple.

I am enjoying the first movements in the transition to Fall.

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he. — Karl Kraus

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The only thing people hate more than honesty is silence.

Autumn, or The Grape Harvest https://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/autumn-or-the-grape-harvest-1787

The reader, the thinker, the loiterer, the flâneur, are types of Illuminati just as much as the opium eater, the dreamer, the ecstatic. And more profane. Not to mention that most terrible drug—ourselves—which we take in solitude. — Walter Benjamin, Surrealism

Some cultures have constructed pyramids, others built cathedrals, Rome's coliseum, Greece's Parthenon. Our culture made billionaires. Monumental societal achievements demonstrate what that society considers important.

Figure at Night Guided by the Phosphorescent Tracks of Snails https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/figure-at-night-guided-by-the-phosphorescent-tracks-of-snails

What the Water Gave Me, 1938 #kahlo #surrealism

Mont Saint-Michel, Normandy, France Picturesque monastery sitting atop a small island off the coast of Normandy (c.1900)

Why Americans Stopped Reading Books

Our tidal bodies wax and wane beneath a changing moon, rotate through seasons, and are bound for a measure of eternity.

I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Freedom from the Other switches into narcissistic self-relation, which occasions many of the psychic disturbances afflicting today's achievement-subject. — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society

"Seduction only comes through empty, illegible, insoluble, arbitrary, fortuitous signs, which gide by lightly, modifying the index of the refraction of space." - The Ecstasy of Communication

One ghostly cat's eye peers down from a pale blue sky August morning moon #Haiku

My arm for a pillow, I really like myself under the hazy moon. — Yosa Buson

Emily by Joanna Newsom stuck in my head for the last few days. And the meteorite's just what causes the light And the meteor's how it's perceived And the meteoroid's a bone thrown from the void that lies quiet and offering to thee.

After his wife Alice died in 1911, Monet returned to the water lilies with a new vision. He scaled up to monumental canvases, using bold strokes of color. These late works pushed toward abstraction inspiring Cézanne, Matisse, and Expressionism.

The temple bell stops — but the sound keeps coming out of the flowers — Bashō

I drown for a living. I am submerged in worries and suffocate slowly nine hours a day for a bi-weekly paycheck. My co-workers sing a cheerful team song while stacking stones upon my head.

Butterfly gliding among upturned Cedar boughs hot ponderous day #haiku

A whole world on one small panel, meant to transform your vision and understanding of reality: the Rolin Madonna, 1435, by Jan van Eyck. Masterpiece.

Is a long life such a good thing if it is lived in daily dread of death or in constant search for satisfaction in a tomorrow which never comes? Is technological progress a disease, symptomatic of being unable to be centered in and to enjoy the present? — Alan Watts, Tao: The Watercourse Way

On the cusp of a significant change in my life and I'm doing laundry, listening to The Monkees, and drinking a Narragansett lager, as one does.

Oh, Germany. Out so soon. At least we made it through the group stage this time.

Once gain, my expressive face betrays my actual feelings, and some people don't like it at all.

After I dust, sweep, and vacuum I like to light an incense stick, turn on the air filter, and welcome the balance developing.

The current of grace was strong in the morning, and having a body that lived was enough. — Clarice Lispector, The Apple in the Dark

I am looking at the upcoming three day weekend like it's cool, clean water and I have been lost in the desert for weeks.

Buddha https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/1042751

Hot Sun finds purchase upon the roof of the day Summer's leading edge #Haiku

Phrases that I am trying to find a use for, or that are working their way into a more complete being: Cognitive surrender Crepuscular civilizational margin Adapted self destruct sequence Promotional dysphoria End times sponsorship Curated dirge vibes

To illustrate so vulgarly that wealth can be completely divorced from value was really unnecessary.

Very impressive. It would be a treat to be in Barcelona to see the completed Basilica in person.

Thanks for the American dream, To vulgarize and to falsify until the bare lies shine through. — William S. Burroughs, A Thanksgiving Prayer