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astronomy + art + rock science

[.ll. @fireontheemoon]

Remember who you are, love.

[.ll. @fireontheemoon]

Accurate and same.

[Ms. Andry Noir, PhD @keatingssixth]

“You want men to intervene when a man acting crazy”

Honey I’ve intervened & defended women from men twice my size who’ve then threatened to beat my ass. I’ve had to defend MYSELF, as many women have. All while other men watch. If ya’ll scary just say that!!

[.ll. @fireontheemoon]

Awwwhh, i know what I’m watching tonight

[Disney+ @DisneyPlus]

Meet ChristianCooper, an avid birder who’s ready to take flight.

#ExtraordinaryBirder with Christian Cooper is streaming June 21 on #DisneyPlus and @Hulu.

[Khari @iknowkhari]

Trying some new things with stained glass and seashells.

[✨Attention Deficit Hyperactive Diva✨ @feisty_la]

Seeing all the black social workers passing that racist ass LCSW exam

[.ll. @fireontheemoon]

And. AND. Got the first month free on a move-in special.

I remember splitting $1100 rent with a roommate a few yrs later and felt like that was breaking the bank. Pssh. Baby, I wish.

[.ll. @fireontheemoon]

This actually feels insane to acknowledge bc inflation.

First apt, 2008/9. $485 rent. 1000 sqft.

[zellie @zellieimani]

How much was the rent in your FIRST apartment??

[.ll. @fireontheemoon]

.concepts like non-striving and ordinary-ness are so beautiful to me

an ordinary life— ordinary love— contentment— peace.

[.ll. @fireontheemoon]

Yes. YES.

[.ll. @fireontheemoon]

I’m giggling bc auntie is boujee and has no kids and lives a life full of self-romance and I love that for her

[Mesh🇧🇧 @rahsh33m]

Who’s house are you eating breakfast at ?

[møshele køenaite @iMoshele]

This tragedy hardly made the news, yet a missing submersible with 5 folks who went to explore the wreckage of the Titanic is front & center on all major channels and publications.

[.ll. @fireontheemoon]

Wow.

[ToiWeezy 👸🏾💕 @ToiWeezy]

There are whole LAKES , inside our oceans. Mike DeGruy sent his submarine deep down into the Gulf of Mexico. The submarine BOUNCED OFF the lake they found (surrounded by mussels). He died after the release of this footage. As above so is below #Firmament 😱

[.ll. @fireontheemoon]

I was looking for validation to cancel my audible membership and this is it. I miss my library. Used to spend so much time there as a kid

[bria celest @55mmbae]

Getting a library card and downloading libby is the best thing I’ve ever done for my reading habits. I can access anything the library has: audiobooks, digital books, cookbooks, etc. Don’t have to buy anything, no clutter, everything right here on my phone so no excuses.

[S. Williams @ShakWills]

The job, the friends, the conversations, the love, the connecting - it’s this. In all ways.

[.ll. @fireontheemoon]

Okay, Doja.

[.ll. @fireontheemoon]

🤣🤣 omg

[amelia✨ @thepedrolorian]

this skit alone deserves an emmy

[reporting for duty. @nathanlately]

I do! 🤭

[Chi baby @THOUARTCHI]

House is life

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

It’s not your job to figure out someones emotions before they do.

[IT WAS NEVER GOING TO BE ME @solomonmissouri]

The most Juneteenth part of this Juneteenth … the sheer number of black people who don’t know they are off on Monday

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

On the 27th straight day of filming “Forrest Gump,” Tom Hanks was tired & worried.

During a scene on the famous park bench, Hanks stopped & said to director Bob Zemeckis,

“Hey, Bob…is anybody going to care about this movie? I don’t think anybody’s going to care.”

Bob replied,

“It’s a minefield, Tom. You never know what’s good…It’s a minefield! It’s a goddam minefield! We may be sowing the seeds of our own destruction.”

Tom Hanks told this story after he was asked, “When I ask for a memory from your career, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?”

He said that what Zemeckis said was true of every movie he’s worked on:

“There’s never any guarantee...You do not know if it is going to work out.”

Takeaway 1:

Hanks is the 5th-most highest-grossing actor of all time.

And yet, the stickiest memory of his career is the feeling of uncertainty.

Rarer than talent or work ethic, the poet John Keats wrote, is the ability to step into and push through doubts and uncertainties.

In 1817, Keats wrote a letter to his brothers to share this exciting realization.

“At once it struck me,” Keats wrote, “what quality went to form a Man of Achievement … Negative Capability.”

Keats explains that “Negative Capability” is “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”

Takeaway 2:

Those who possess Negative Capability, who can sit with uncertainty, who can spend months or years in the minefield that is working on something while knowing that there is a real possibility no one will care about it—they often possess another quality.

They do what they do, not as a means to some end (money, fame, awards, etc.), but for the sake of doing it.

When asked about one of his movies that commercially failed, Hanks said,

"I loved making that movie. I loved writing it, I loved being with it. I love all the people in it."

As Ryan Holiday once told me, "The work has to be the win."

You control the effort, he says, not the results.

"So ultimately, you have to love doing it. You have to get to a place where doing the work is the win and everything else is extra.”

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“Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're going to get.” — Forrest Gump

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