Art - Kiefer

Is a process for me 

I'm not interested in the end 

Anselm Kiefer 

Kiefer on art

To do something, what is not so controlled… 

Anselm Kiefer 

Stop

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping 

Thich nhat hanh 

Pablo Milanes

I am a worker who labors with songs, doing in my own way, what I know best, like any other Cuban worker. I am faithful to my reality, to my revolution and the way in which I have been brought up. 

Inflict harm

Art is not blameless. Art can inflict harm 

Richard Taruskin 

Work

The reward of the work has always been the work itself 

David McCullough 

Always working

I'm always working, always. I got to keep the ship afloat. 

Leslie Jordan 

Lean over the edge

Sometimes you have to put yourself on the edge. You go to the precipice and lean over it. 

Maria Ewing 

Ronnie Spector

Every song is a little piece of my life 

Schiele

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Egon Schiele.

Ask for what you want

Title of book 

Prep

I believe in pure and good preparation

Kipchogee 

No success

I am not a believer of success

I don't believe in success. 

But I believe in good preparation and planning 

Kipchogee

Documentation is the product - notes

Every one of them has the same wife - notes

Every one of them has the same wife. 

Light skinned, thin…. 

Obvious nice thing

do the obvious nice thing. 

Always, do the obvious nice thing 

Living apart together

Ms. Ordway said that having her own home helps her "remember who I am by myself, remember what I like doing by myself. And that was a lovely gift."

NYT article Dec 11. 2022

Kurkjian

Is this central to the winning formula of iconic creations? The mechanism of a classic is a question Kurkdjian has asked himself, telling me he put it to his friend who works as a contemporary art advisor. "I love her answer," he shares. "When she looks at a piece of art, she's checking two things. The first thing she's checking is, is there somewhere, even hidden, a kind of a classical anchorage or point? And then she checks if there is something very contemporary, almost avant garde-ish. And of course, you have to evoke an emotion. The combination of classicism and avant garde mixed with something that brings a new emotion, is the mark of possible timelessness."

I am you. You are me

If you actually believe my success is yours and your success is mine, there is no score-keeping, ever…. 

- comment on how Michelle Obama is getting it wrong with her thinking, how it affirms: I am you, you are me 

Notes movie idea: Vegas Seven

Book notes: win at work, knife

Have game

You cannot have no game 

You have to have FULL game 

GAME ON 

Become prey

If you act like prey, you become prey. 

(There are three kings of people at your work place. Good predator, bad predator, prey) 

Yashua’s uncle

Triple OG gangster

He's got stripes 

Addona

Where's the beginning? 

Notes for book on relationships

I have the job. You take the risk 

Stop keeping score. 

1+1=4 

Notes: Cave

The light of God is very difficult to receive inside the cave. The light of God is outside the cave… 

Yashua Klos

She could do no wrong in my eye…

On cousin Paige 

Yashua Klos

It was using me to get born. 

I knew it was going to be made one way or the other. 

On the mural, Our Labour 

Greatest thing to master in life:

"Knowing when is enough"

Being rigorous and intentional in demonstrating the discipline and awareness of knowing when is enough: 

Example: Sunil Gavaskar quitting cricket. 

Pammi retiring 

Paul Walker retiring 

want

What does Lisa want?

A simple life with Loki in a home, somewhere warm, doing God's work:creative projects where 1+1=4

Plan for spillage

You always have to plan for spillage 

-l- 

Prayer

I show up one more day, as being alive, of good health, of sound mind and good judgement. God is great 🙏🏽

Idea for book

All Indian Spices - Illustrated and explained

With information about purveyors and how its grown and everything you needto know about spices 

Manjit Bawa

On drawing 

"I enjoy doing it, for it isn't decorative and loud. One can use minimum essentials to extract the maximum effect," says the artist. "I was inspired to return to drawing after seeing Michelangelo's sketches and drawings at an exhibition in Amsterdam, where I had gone for one of my shows. The idea stuck in my mind. I don't work on demand, but follow my heart and mind, for I feel everything has a time and a place."

Self-directed

Live life self-directed as opposed to self-inflicted

I see you

Hi see you Japan

I see you Bengaluru

I see you in the Hamptons

I see you Turks and Caicos's I see you Utah. Series of photographs book

Commercial work

What gets people paid is doing the most commercial work

Poetry not precision

When it comes to my art 

Marriage

I loved being married. I was just married to the wrong person

Lisa 

Amangiri

The memory is as good as the experience

Lisa 

Lisa

The world is such a racist place and race is such a stupid paradigm 

Feelings

There is no market place for how we feel. Our feelings are only between and amongst us. 

Lisa 

Kings and queens

We are kings and queens 

Biding time

We are biding our time at Goldman Sachs, but it's not our destiny…

Confidence

Confidence is everything!

Preparation is everything!! 

How you see

How you see is everything…

Lm 

Pammi

The existence of poetry is the meaning of all meanings

Pramod Babu

Poetry

Poems are symbols, signals, remembrances, utterances, mantras, guides, totem poles. They exist to make us aware that we are all beautiful and tortured creations roaming the vast interior and exterior savannas of our lives. They are the ideal medium to remind us this life is a mystery in the truest sense of the word.  They call you to embrace all dimensions of life, to just embrace it, to just be in it, to welcome it, to bite it, to get bitten by it, to get hurt by it, to get scorched  by it, to die by it, live by it, get joy through it. Poems mirror the mystery and the mysterious nature of life.

Lm

Reorg

Our enemies are being re-org'd

—

Put down the knife

Mental health

You have to work on your mental health as much as you have to work on your physical health….

MAC

—

Sharing

Sharing, not exploiting
Being professional, respecting all professionals - sharing the wealth, the bounty


Loki Muthu
—

At your expense

I will take, at your expense

I will enjoy for me, at your expense

I will make money at your expense

I will hoard all this money at your expense 

Our group of fellows will take it for us, we don't give it to you. 

Why not

Do things so that all benefit, not just you. 

Do good for others in the process of doing good for you.

Make all benefit…. 

This is the root of all evil 

This is the origin of capitalism

This is how white entitlement works 

This is how racism works 

This is how casteism works 

Integrity

Integrity to who you are

Integrity to your life's work 

Issy wood 

What I have to work on

- Raising independent children
- strong boundaries, calling them out for the best way they need to behave in all circumstances"
- my thoughts, feelings, what I want to do - matters.
- "be me"


—

How are you going to pay your food, shelter and clothing?

As a student: 

"How are you going to pay for your

Food

Shelter 

Expenses? 

——

Food on the table

Roof over your head 

On your own

Have you asked that question???? 

Rich men

 "Rich people don't like being told no — most of them are men and they especially don't like being told no by women. It offends everything they've worked to attain."

Issy wood 

Integrity

Her main compass has been integrity to herself and to her own work.

On Issy wood 

Vanessa Carlos 

Devotion

Great beauty comes from devotion, dedication and not-giving-up work 

Don’t

Don't think highly of your life at all. It's an abstraction and the same as everyone else's'

Misfit

You are a misfit to the other.

—

Please lean to stay toxic

None of anything matters

None of anything matters 

Prince

"Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first."

Arthur Schopenhauer

Earhart

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process, is its own reward."​

— Amelia Earhart​

Life

I don't want an Instagram life

I just want a life 

Not associated

I don't want to be associated with me.

I want to function as though I am not associated with me… 

Poem

It's the same, here and there

Trees, clouds moving,

Light breeze, fluttering leaves

The outline of a hill; grey hill from afar,

Bright sun, rain in the sun

Muddy water, ripples in waves,

Bark of a large tree, tough to touch

Aroma of grass, moon light, bird call,

Sun marking your body warm

Tall shadows in the morning,

The golden aura of the setting sun 

Notes

Blessings beginnings 

Something absolutely phenomenal is happening to you!!! 

You are a kind and beautiful man

Love in your bones. 

No apologies for living as you do.

Make change, be fearless,

Disciplined life…

Beautiful beginnings….

Endless curiosity

No apologies for who you are

Living the very best life

Emotionally neutral

Expressive loving

Fruit of life

Daily rituals 

Observing and recording everything! 

Perfect

You are just perfect 

On this earth.

Who you are….

Me

You can't make me be somebody who I am not 

Wonder

"Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees."

- Gregory of Nyssa

—

Pammi

I think this wonder is all of life. It operates at some attenuated level in every moment but when it's amplified (ie it shines brighter when the river of thought is no longer in spate), it is real comprehension. 

It is the absence of wonder that makes life burdensome

True

Don't say it's so good to be true. 

Say: 

It's so good it's true

John King 

Mornings

The thing to remember is not to get of bed in the mornings…

Dedication

Be dedicated to your practice.

It will free you and make you soar 

Smart

I went to Harvard as a smart person and came out as a smart person from Harvard. But Harvard didnt make me smart - They selected me because I was smart

Lisa 

marina

there's no other way to do it other than to do it

Marina Elson

July 2022 

Ramit

Accept reality

Make a plan

MOVE 

Win

Win against them.

Win for you. 

Made of

"What are we made of but hunger and rage?"

- Anne Carson

Find our way

We have to find our way to who we are 

Loki Muthu 

You take you

You take you to where you want to go.

Don't rely on anyone else to do that

Not your work

Not your friend

Not anyone else

Only you take you.

You also know where to take to

Nobody knows but you.

You do you

You take you to where you want to go

Work is a game

Play to win the game.

But at the end of the day, it is work.

True work is doing work to see the light of what God put you here for.

That work is true.

Work work is fake, it is a game, sea of characters and players - who come and go - and have no bearing on your inner being. Surely you can't count this experience as adding any true weight to the value of who you are.  

True work is doing the work to uncover you, finding who you are, doing you because you are created in the image of God and your purpose is to be there.  

Problems

Problems make you better

David Carson

What's even better is what's left

Carson David

White so literal maybe not white soul literal

Maybe not quite so literal

Barkley L Hendricks

"I didn't care what was being done by other artists or what was happening around me," he told The Brooklyn Rail. "I was dealing with what I wanted to do. Period."

Clocks

All clocks deceive us 

Sean Scully 

Glaser

There are three responses to a pice of design: yes,no and wow. Wow is the one to aim for.

Milton Glaser


Loki Muthu
—

Emerson

"… I can see nothing at last, in success or failure, than more or less of vital force supplied from the Eternal. The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and come and go, and design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked for result. The individual is always mistaken. He designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarrelled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken. It turns out somewhat new, and very unlike what he promised himself."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'Experience'

Milosz

Encounter by Czeslaw Milosz

We were riding through frozen fields in a wagon at dawn.

A red wing rose in the darkness.

And suddenly a hare ran across the road.

One of us pointed to it with his hand.

That was long ago. Today neither of them is alive,

Not the hare, nor the man who made the gesture.

O my love, where are they, where are they going

The flash of a hand, streak of movement, rustle of pebbles.

I ask not out of sorrow, but in wonder.

(Wilno, 1936)

Bloom

"… if a poem pierces you enough, in heart and in intellect, and you never really get over it, it qualifies as an immortal wound. Shakespeare (Hamlet) speaks of 'wonder wounded hearers'.. Any poet who wounds you by wonder has given you, probably, an immortal wound.

- Harold Bloom

Mark Strand

Keeping Things Whole by Mark Strand

In a field

I am the absence

of field.

This is

always the case.

Wherever I am

I am what is missing.

When I walk

I part the air

and always

the air moves in   

to fill the spaces

where my body's been.

We all have reasons

for moving.

I move

to keep things whole.

Philip Levine

The Second Going by Philip Levine

Again the

day begins, only

no one wants its sanity

or its blinding clarity. Daylight is

not what we came all this way for. A

pinch of salt, a drop of schnapps in our cup

of tears, the ticket to the life to come, a short life of

long nights & absent dawns & a little mercy in the tea.

Support yourself

At the end of the day,
You must be able to support yourself
Roof over your head,
Food,clothes, shelter
And not be dependent on any one else
—

You

You are the cause of your own suffering

Don Miguel Ruiz jr

—

Creative Vigilance

Idea for book

"[t]here is vigilance to her stories, and great imaginative attention

- on Lydia Davis 

—

Short story

A Short Story by Lydia Davis

The Outing

An outburst of anger near the road, a refusal to speak on the path, a silence in the pine woods, a silence across the old railroad bridge, an attempt to be friendly in the water, a refusal to end the argument on the flat stones, a cry of anger on the steep bank of dirt, a weeping among the bushes.

- Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

—

Win at Work

Are you winning?

How to win?

Work is a game

Play to Win

Winning strategies

Play the game

Learn to play the game

Checklists

Common mistakes and how to rectify

Autopilot Winning Strategies Checklist

• Daily
• Weekly
• Monthly 

Title for book

Prayer and practice


Loki Muthu
—

Prayer and practice

A prayer is an anchor for the day.
Practice, anchor for life.


Loki Muthu
—

Prayer

My prayer is a work of art.


Loki Muthu
—

I want to

Make something beautiful

Create beautiful things

Live my life

To be

Courses

Just bring one plate of food and get the fuck out of my way!

The courses are nothing but interruptions

Fight

Get used to fighting.

If you don't fight

You will be incapacitated

You will be taken advantage of

You will die.

Get used to fighting

Or get used to giving up

Or get used to dying 

Stand up for yourself

Fight. 

It's a way of life 

You need to get used to it 

Never escape

We will never escape the cruel world…. 

Awareness

When someone is creeping on your boundaries…

Not broke but sheltered

I don't thing you are broken, but you are sheltered 

Exposing my wound

Exposing my wound about avoidance 

I am avoidant 

I hate that I am avoidant and when the consequence happens to me, I get really mad 

Everyday

You have to work on you.

Do your work. 

You came alone.

Do the work alone.

Set time to do work on your own… 

Do YOU loki

Own your life.

Regulate your life.

Be the driver of your life.

Do what makes you happy.

Fuck every one else.

Plan every day like you want it planned.

You come first. 

Your life

Your finances

Your design 

Do not compromise.

That is is the old Loki 

Seek sanctuary

Know who you are

Your feelings come first

Take care of you first

Take care of you.

Do you. 

Boundaries

Boundaries are in the middle…. 

I don’t want to deal with stuff

I don't to be forced to deal with stuff.

I don't want to deal with shit.

-///

Which is why I want to do God's work

I want to do God's work

——- 

Deal with stuff

If you ignore stuff
If you don't deal with stuff

Stop trying to ignore stuff that you don't want to do…

You have to stop ignoring or hiding away from the things you have to do…

What you have to end:
I have this issue of avoidance with conflicts of my daughter..
I have this issue with avoidance with finances..


—-
It will have a consequence…

Set your terms

This is how I feel respected.
This is how I feel love.

I matter


—

Love and discipline

Love and discipline are not in opposition

—

Boundaries

Demand how you need to be treated.

Don't Beg 

Don't beg to be loved.

Gregory of Nyssa

Only wonder makes us fall to our knees 

Gregory of Nyssa 

"Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees."

- Gregory of Nyssa

Orient

Orient yourself to your victory and not to their criticism of where you are or what you do 

So estimes we are so bust going that we are not staying.  

Exercise

It's not exercise unless you sweat 

Two good things cancel each other

Bacon wrapped scallops

Surf and turf

Lobster stuffed with crab 

—-

Lobster is perfectly fine on its own 

Don't need bacon on scallops! They are fine separately 

I don't need some cow on my lobster 

Writing

My writing is like your painting

Loki
—

Picking my pocket

Somebody is picking my pocket and I need to know it .

—/

Look at your credit card bills and your subscriptions… 

Meera

You cannot be Meera about Technology or Cars 

Lisa Denotale

These feet can handle it all

-lisa D 

Gates

For keeping the rich in and the poor out


Loki Muthu
—

Working

Working for the common good
And people

Nick turner


Loki Muthu
—

Mary

With my pencil, I've traveled to the moon and back, probably a few times.

Mary Oliver

Water

Water the plants

Loki Muthu
—

Took charge

I just took charge.


—

Non aggressive

I aspire to be non- aggressive
Laurie Anderson

Loki Muthu
—

Health

Any healthy country, any healthy individual should be in a state of perpetual revolution, perpetual change


Loki Muthu
—

Abuse

Abuse is gender neutral


Loki Muthu
—

Wyeth

Andrew Wyeth "continued to find inspiration in a few square miles of land"

-Bill Murphy

(Similar to Emily Dickinson)

Best outcome

Think about the best outcome for each of the pillars of your life that are very important to you. For example what is the best outcome for writing? What is the best outcome for work? And then be able to create a weekly discipline where you are contributing something to the best outcome of the things that matter in your life


Loki Muthu
—

OkR

Do great work. Write great books. Travel ancient places. Plant a garden. Live modestly and be self-sufficient. Protect parks. Protect ancient monuments. Celebrate food. Mix food and culture. Love your best creative life. God is great


Loki Muthu
—

Denis johnson

Heat
BY DENIS JOHNSON

Here in the electric dusk your naked lover
tips the glass high and the ice cubes fall against her teeth.
It's beautiful Susan, her hair sticky with gin,
Our Lady of Wet Glass-Rings on the Album Cover,
streaming with hatred in the heat
as the record falls and the snake-band chords begin
to break like terrible news from the Rolling Stones,
and such a last light—full of spheres and zones.
August,
you're just an erotic hallucination,
just so much feverishly produced kazoo music,
are you serious?—this large oven impersonating night,
this exhaustion mutilated to resemble passion,
the bogus moon of tenderness and magic
you hold out to each prisoner like a cup of light?



—

Woolf

"There is no need to rush. There is no need to shine. You don't need to be anyone but yourself."

- Virginia Woolf


—

Wendell berry

"And so I go to the woods. As I go in under the trees, almost at once, and by nothing I do, things fall into place. I enter an order that does not exist outside in the human spaces. I am less important than I thought. I rejoice in that." - Wendell Berry


—

Emerson

"… I can see nothing at last, in success or failure, than more or less of vital force supplied from the Eternal. The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and come and go, and design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked for result. The individual is always mistaken. He designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarrelled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken. It turns out somewhat new, and very unlike what he promised himself."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'Experience'
—

Thelma

How do you curate?
Do an enormous amount of viewing



Lots of conversations with artists


Loki Muthu
—

Science

There has to be a science to art and an art to science

Expert

Become an expert at one thing 

Found self

What are we going to do with the found self?


—lm-

Flying blind

When you are essentially flying blind, are you reckless or conscientious? 

Are you at the knife's edge balance of both? 

——

The ultimate self-help in anything

Balance and moderation.

Guided by self awareness, instincts and intuition

Deadline

It's difficult without a deadline 

Follow

In life, you will come across people, who are a leading exactly the life you dream to lead. Follow those people and follow your instincts. Sometimes you will see an older person living exactly the kind of life you dream to live in your older life. Life gives you signals. Follow those signals

Dario

Not even a small bone is going to waste.
This is being a butcher
- Dario


Loki Muthu
—

Ask what you want

In general, 

in life, 

ask what you want. 

Jefferson

"Do not talk about what
you have
done or what
you are going to do.


Thomas Jefferson



—

Abuse

Every time, you go into the relationship ( that was abusive), more abuse to be had 

Fix it

If something is wrong, fix it 

Hemmingway 

Einstein

" I must be prepared to give up what I am in order to become what I will be."

Grand Theft Cartier

The eye sees what is sees. 

While words can blunt the truth, the eye cannot lie. 

You see what you see. 

While the western world casts Cartier as the hero

He was so lazy in his theft, he didn't do much and sold as is. 

Curator uses words like "inspire", migrate", 

"That allowed many paintings and manuscripts to leave the country— pieces from the royal collection of very, very high quality, which people had never seen before," says Henon-Raynaud.

Facilitate 

Translate 

Link 

Pair 

Recreate 

Derive 

Inspire 

Influence 

Adapt

Synthesize 

Weave 

Incorporate 

Engage 

Combine 

Link 

Migrate 

Manifest 

—-

"Theft"

Steal

Copy

Appropriate 

Rob

—

Exposure

Life  =  enjoy the exposure to light

Education

You need education to know it's worthlessness

Academic

Even the academics are incapacitated by being academics 

Free - the architecture of me

Spend more time outdoors. Spend more time in the forest. Spend more time in the woods. Spend time near the water. Spend time near a lake. Spend time kayaking. Sit outside more often. Lay down on the grass. Listen to music up close. Be near fire. Grill by the fire. Get warmed by the fire. Live small. Simple living high thinking. On a journey. On an expedition. On an adventure. Observe and record what you see. Take pictures. Make sketches. Travel by train.  Travel to the far corners of the world. Experience local. See the architecture of man. Travel to ancient places and monuments. Travel to museums. Grow plants. Grow vegetables. Grow herbs. Use what you grow to feed yourself. Walk in the park. Travel to Parks. Teach. Inspire the younger generation. Share what you know. Walk long distances. Swim. Eat simple and healthy and well.

Doing well

Doing is different than doing well. 

Doing well is difficult

More free

You are more free than you think

I see you Skye

I see you took the broom and dustpan from behind the fridge and cleaned up the floor and the particles underneath the table. 

I see you observed the floor was sticky and wanted to mop the floor if the mop was available. 

I see you delight in food and relish in great sources of information.

I see you harbor a curiosity for learning.

I see you immediately found recipes to work with after the NY Times subscription

I see you picked three recipes and you KILLED all three. 

I see you make a few minutes of time to lift weights and exercise..  

I see you take care of your health and nourish your skin.

I see your efforts with your counselor and your physics teacher to maintain your grade point.  I see you unaffected by your counselor even though the counselor said it was Ok and to not be affected. I see you persisted and got to a better place in Physics:  All A's don't just happen. They are a mark of persistence, diligence and excellence.  Ostinato Rigore, as DaVinci says. 

I see your desire to practice with your voice teacher in person  - All great things happen in person. 

I see your virtual practice with your teacher and listened to your voice from afar.  It sounds like heaven. 

I see you refuse to take two rolls of expensive film, but one roll instead. 

I see you immediately Venmoed the money you owed me. Such a great attitude to give back something you owe: immediately and with gusto!

I see that when you found your card that you did not have during the fair, you promptly responded that you found it. 

I see you are enriched by history and deeply affected by it. 

I see you educated me about Simone de Beauvoir and Emmanuel Kant and the words "The ends don't justify the means". 

I see you educated me about Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson and the work that changed the course of our country.  

I see when you were buying things for you, you were buying things for others.

I see you delight in supporting the community of artists.

---

I see you Skye.

You make mom and dad very proud of who you are. 

God bless you Skye.

Roosevelt

Dare mighty things 

Teddy Roosevelt 

PinkSweat$

"If I write a song about you, you'll live forever,"

David Bowden

pinkSweat$

Adrian Zecha

One day I would like to be in Lebanon.

Relationship

You build a relationship together


Loki Muthu
—

Fordjour

This woman, she makes 450 million dollars a year, and says "fuck that money"

Derek Fordjour 

Lessons in life - learnt late

Skills to recognize, move away and demolish motherfuckers 

Photography

Photography is a truth that can lie or a lie that can tell the truth

Loki Muthu
—

Hopper

'If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.'

- Edward Hopper

—

Movement is fundamental

You have to move.

Otherwise people will move you.

And take your place 

On leading a life

Be the own boss of your life.

Drive your own car. 

Set clear conditions for how others should treat you based on how you treat others.

Hold everyone accountable - if they don't treat you like the way you need to be treated. 

Guard the peace of your life. 

Set the direction of your life. 

Chart the course of your life. 

Don't let someone take over your life. 

Don't allow anyone to hold the gates of your peace. Not even slightly. 

Don't be hostage to anyone or anything that poisons your peace. 

Be very aware of any and everything that creates ripples or infiltrates or upsets the sanctuary of who you are - 

You go where you want to go. Decided by you. 

You do what you want to do. Decided by you. 

You be. As you are. Willed by you. 

Nobody is in you - telling you what to do or how to be. 

You are you 

There is no one inside you or hiding somewhere that is altering something or not allowing to be pure you. 

You are owned by you. Governed by you. Controlled by you. You set the conditions and actions and directions and course of living. 

Every time you do something. Check:

Is there someone else in this picture of what you are doing? 

Or are you not doing something because of someone else? 

Be aware of this. 

You are the leader of your life. 

Every minute you decide for yourself what you want to do. 

Be the leader of your life, every step of the way. 

Nobody

Nobody can kill your joy!
Nobody can rob you of your joy!
The people who try to do that are intentionally evil


Loki Muthu
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Dangerous

This person seeks the opposite of what I want.

Seeking to destroy everything about me.

Seeking to falsely accuse me of crime

Always seeking a position of control

Willing to go to any length 

Wiling to manipulate 

Deliberately disrespectful and abusive 

Seeking to spread lies about me

Seeking to make false accusations. 

Seeking to annul me make me irrelevant to my kids. 

For my kids, only their mothers feelings matter, not their fathers. 

I have to fight to state my position of truth constantly - as easy it is for them to deny it and demoralize me 

I have to constantly stand guard to protect me and stand my ground. 

Be on your own hands,always!!!!!! Don’t get suffocated by any person again

Guard

Guard your perimeter 

End

Jayaa's reign of terror came to an end. It's on tape…. 

Over-written

In these relationships, your life gets over-written.

 

Don't let that happen. 

Everything

There is a playbook for everything. 

Seek it 

(Someone has been in your place. They have some things to share that can be helpful) 

Good predator

Bite then and spit them out

Don't swallow them 

Life’s work

It's our life's work to shake down the system 

Character

Character is your most important asset.
Don't ever lose it
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Behind closed doors

The quality of the life of a relationship behind closed doors is abysmally devastating… 

On the outside a relationship is fine and dandy but from the inside you never know what's happening. You never know what's happening behind closed doors….

Sacrifice

Whatever you do,

Be top of the game!!! 

It is absolutely and without question, a worthy sacrifice 

God

God is the supreme creator and designer and architect. 

Life

The life you have is the result of the choices you make.

-Shelton Dupreez


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Witness

When I witness, who witnesses. Who?

—

Fixing

You can't be nice when you need to fix a problem. 

Happiness

"Happiness is not the absence of problems; it's the ability to deal with them" ~ Steve Maraboli

Concentrate

Concentrate on the work itself, whatever kind it is….

Pettibon 

Pettibon

I'm of the opinion that if you are doing good work, you'll be noticed. There isn't a conspiracy to keep you out..

Raymond pettibon 

Discomfort

A state of discomfort is a fertile place to be

- Hanya Yanagihara
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Question as the most important sentence

What year did you move to New York?

- questions as leading a chapter or a main theme of a book… 

Muir

"I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news."

- John Muir, b. 21 April 1838
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Miro

"I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course.  They grow, they ripen.

You have to graft.  You have to water."

- Joan Miró

Clark

We really like to marry the two.

Research and Liberal arts.

Logan 

Senior @ Clark 

Clark university

Everything is so off the wall.
Keep Clark weird

Loki Muthu
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Sorrow

"Sorrow eats time. Be patient. Time eats sorrow."


- Louise Erdrich

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Life

Approach life with
Curiosity
Humility
Responsibility
Gratitude
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Abuse

An abused person cannot make the right choice. They are imprisoned. And when you are in prison, you can't see things clearly.

An abused person cannot make the right choice.
—

Action words right now

Restraint

Correct

Persist

Fight

Repeat

Inness

The role (of an artist) Is not to instruct, not to edify but to awaken an emotion…

George Inness 

Independent not co-dependent

You must understand how to be independent - not codependent

-lm-
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Abuse

I am closing my eyes on the abuse. You open my eyes to it. I feel pain. I ask myself - who caused the pain? Not the person opening my eyes.

Wrong behavior: why did you open my eyes and cause me pain?

Correct behavior: I thank you making me see the abuse for what it is. I will call out the abuser for the abuse and demand correction. I will create consequences if the abuse is repeated.

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Changes

What're loki does:
Gloss over abuse
Accept bad treatment
Ignore or look the other way when treated badly

What loki does,
Loki gets angry when abuse is pointed out
Loki lashes when he is made aware that people are continuing to treat him badly. When he is being treated as a second class parent
Loki retaliates at the messenger

Old behavior
Glossing over abuse

New behavior
Calling people out on bad behavior
Setting very high expectations for how people treat loki
Don't kill the messenger
Be grateful and thankful that you are pointed out - your own blind spots
Work on demanding the respect that has been robbed from you - because of Jayaa


Loki Muthu
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Very high expectations

Set very high expectations for how you should be treated…



Loki Muthu
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Want for yourself

I want more for you than you are wanting for yourself…


—

Loki muthu deserves better

Loki Muthu deserves better
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Right

I have the fundamental right not to be abused

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Dependence

Lives off of remittances from her aunt

—

Independence

Roof
Clothes
Food


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Maya and Skye

Deal with the reality of what the relationship.

You just have to ask for it.

Someone is just taking your relationship from you

You have to call them on it
You have to call them on it

Teaching them
Undoing Jayaa's evil
You have to spend all your time scooping the evil out

You live with the venom

I see that
I see that
I see that

It's tiring
It's exhausting

This is what's respectful
This is what is courteous

Work is bad
Because dad works

I am good
Dad is bad




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Maya and Skye

I am just telling you things you don't want to hear…

I am making the observation
You don't like it
You abuse me
It's hurtful to you

Your making yourself immune
When I call out
"Holding the people accountable"

"I observe them I say them
You don't like it. "





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I report to God

I report to God 

God

I don't seek anybody's approval

Or need anybody's validation 

For who I am or what I do.

I am God's child.

 

Intelligence

I don't want to prove my intelligence anymore. 

Not for me. Not for me

Not for me. Not for me. 

Napas are treated like royalty

Ankhuri 

Ready to fight

Lived in fear for this long,

Now ready to fight. 

God is great

I show up one more day as being alive, of good health, of sound mind and good judgement. God is great 🙏🏽


Loki Muthu
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Pammi

Money is the new God 

Falling down

When you fall down and you get up, you build new muscles. And you get stronger than you were before let me. 

Independent

Just take care of yourself.

that is my only ask 

OkR for life for students after graduating

You can do whatever you want at your expense. You cannot do whatever you want at somebody else's expense. 

The simple OKR for life after school:

Be independent

Not dependent, not co-dependency 

You should take care of a roof over your head

Food 

Utilities 

Clothes

Be able to be independent and live on your own… 

Every minute is yours

Every second of every minute of your life belongs to you. ( you decide what you do with it)
And
I feel so honored about every minute that you choose to spend with me….
-lm-
—

Appointments

I think of Appointments as perishable so you don't have to waste them
Lisa


Loki Muthu
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White

Managing me down
Managing us down…

"We will put you here.."


Loki Muthu
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White

They have drank from the cup forever
And yet - they are holding their position beyond their years at the expense of others.

And they ask us to do our jobs around these immutable objects…


Loki Muthu
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White

The white guy does not give way

They are used to dominating.

They are used to the world making way for them


Loki Muthu
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Due time

All good things in due time…
Lm

Loki Muthu
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Peace

We have to protect our own peace
Number one, top of the list


Loki Muthu
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Perspectives

Do you have perspectives and I have perspectives and we have to put them together.


- Loki Muthu
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Conduct

Conduct your life as though your life is very very precious and your activities are very very important and organize your hours and days that you have full honor and full respect to do you as gods child


Loki Muthu
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Work

You are an important man. You have important work to do. You have God's work at the top of everything else. Remember that


Loki Muthu
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Don’t get caught up.

Have powerful boundaries. Don't get caught up with stuff that comes in the way of your important activities that propel you forward. You are not a bystander.

Loki Muthu
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Bucket list

Amplify the very goals that you have set out for yourself. The bucket list list is a great structure for you to think about what are profound and important actions you have to embark and trounces everything else.


Loki Muthu
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Prepare

Loki Muthu
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Truth

Looking back at a period of time from the past where you were experiencing less or the feeling of pure joy or the feeling of being carefree being over come my feelings of joy and aliveness and happiness like the fluttering of a bird or butterfly or the feeling of waking up in the morning and feeling so overcome with the joy of being alive


Loki Muthu
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Hard act

Learning the art of being immune to other people's impact on you especially when they hurt you or abuse you or slide you or discriminate you or treat you like 2nd+


Loki Muthu
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That’s not me

You can be who you can be. That's not me


Loki Muthu
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Work

You work yourself into the circle of that community…..

Joe Sacco
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For yourself

Never let anyone determine how much you are worth or where you stand. You drive that.
Inspite and despite of…


Loki Muthu
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Finisher

I am a finisher.
Shit gets finished

-lm-
—

Fordjour

Sometimes, the idea emerges from the making (of art] itself

Derek Fordjour
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Put in the hours

Margaret Atwood

Denial

Denial is a coping mechanism

- lm-
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Algorithms

We are algorithms.

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Loving

It's very hard to get irritated with the person you just made love to…

It's a secret no-one knows. That you just made love to…





Loki Muthu
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Aoc

We can only accomplish great things together


Loki Muthu
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Colonial

Colonial politeness is a career killer


Lisa Opoku
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Surrender Your Rights

Surrender Your Rights

by Pastor Chuck Swindoll

Proverbs 24:19-20

If we accept that resentment is poisonous to the soul and that God demands we dispose of it, the next question is obvious: How? How can we rid ourselves of this toxic attitude? Here's where God's Word comes to our rescue. First, we must do something within ourselves that is painful. We must surrender our right to pursue our own justice. This is the first of two steps in forgiving someone. We will examine the second step [Wednesday].

Leave Justice to God

There is a good reason we love justice. Fairness is a quality of God that we carry within us that, in part, bears His image. God is just. God is fair-minded. God believes in rewarding good behavior and allowing evildoers to suffer the punishment for their deeds. Nowhere in Scripture is the concept of justice declared bad. Neither will you find any condemnation for those who desire justice. Even so, God calls us to entrust Him with all matters requiring justice and to surrender our right to obtain it ourselves. God declared this early in the history of Israel:

“Vengeance is Mine, and retribution,
In due time their foot will slip;
For the day of their calamity is near,
And the impending things are hastening upon them.”
For the LORD will vindicate His people,
And will have compassion on His servants.
(Deuteronomy 32:35–36)

The proverb reassures us, “Do not fret because of evildoers or be envious of the wicked; for there will be no future for the evil man; the lamp of the wicked will be put out” (Proverbs 24:19–20). God gives us His solemn assurance that He will handle justice on our behalf and fulfill His role as Judge with absolute integrity. This promise frees us to leave past hurts in the past and to focus on making good decisions for the sake of creating a good future. When we do so, Paul the apostle stated, we “leave room for the wrath of God” (Romans 12:19) to accomplish its work. Read his counsel slowly and carefully:

Never pay back evil for evil to anyone. Respect what is right in the sight of all men. If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men. Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, “VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY,” says the Lord. (Romans 12:17–19)

 

 

 

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White

White is not white


Loki Muthu
—

Darryl Daniela

I'd u don't talk about how u feel, you never heal

Run Dmz
Darryl Daniel's


Loki Muthu
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Good man

An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

William Penn 

Good Woman

Who can find a good woman?

She is precious beyond all things.

Prov. 31.10