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Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth.
diaphanous
escarpment
He would often use an analogy from nature. “Ja, Peekay, always in life an idea starts small, it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try to choke your idea so it cannot grow and it will die and you will never know you had an idea so big it could have grown thirty meters through the canopy of leaves and touched the face of the sky.” He looked at me and continued, “The vines are people who are afraid of originality, of new thinking; most people you encounter will be vines. When you are a young plant they are very dangerous.” His piercing blue eyes looked into mine.
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esoteric
I learned that the greatest camouflage of all is consistency. If you do something often enough and at the same time in the same way, you become invisible. One of the shadows.
fêtes
“Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother,” Doc would say. “When man is brutalized in such a place like this, the smallest sign that someone is worried for him is like a fire on the dark mountain. When a man knows somebody cares he keeps some small place, a corner maybe of his soul, clean and lit.”
The photograph captured the exact moment when I understood with conviction that racism is a primary force of evil.
