I Love Seeing The Faces Of These People As They Sing This Song Together. I Love That With Just One Sheet

I love seeing the faces of these people as they sing this song together. I love that with just one sheet of paper, a few minutes' practice, and some experience with choral singing, the person standing in the far back of that room can be united with the person in the front row in co-producing this sound together. I love that this version of a beloved song - different, relatively simple arrangement - will only ever exist once, because those people chose to come together in that room to make it. 

Ms. Marvel Vol. 4: Last Days (2015) // Marvel Comics

“I’m so proud of you, beta”

Story: G. Willow Wilson, art: Adrian Alphona

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Damn. A valuable lesson on interdisciplinary cooperation, through vaginas with a totally valid detour through the Flint water crisis. Huh.

Polished Malachite Stalactite - Copper Crescent, Congo

At age 23, Tina Fey was working at a YMCA. At age 23, Oprah was fired from her first reporting job.  At age 24, Stephen King was working as a janitor and living in a trailer. 

At age 27, Vincent Van Gogh failed as a missionary and decided to go to art school.   At age 28, J.K. Rowling was a suicidal single parent living on welfare.

At age 28, Wayne Coyne ( from The Flaming Lips) was a fry cook. At age 30, Harrison Ford was a carpenter.  At age 30, Martha Stewart was a stockbroker.  At age 37, Ang Lee was a stay-at-home-dad working odd jobs. Julia Child released her first cookbook at age 39, and got her own cooking show at age 51. Vera Wang failed to make the Olympic figure skating team, didn’t get the Editor-in-Chief position at Vogue, and designed her first dress at age 40. Stan Lee didn’t release his first big comic book until he was 40. Alan Rickman gave up his graphic design career to pursue acting at age 42. Samuel L. Jackson didn’t get his first movie role until he was 46.

Morgan Freeman landed his first movie role at age 52. Kathryn Bigelow only reached international success when she made The Hurt Locker at age 57. Grandma Moses didn’t begin her painting career until age 76. Louise Bourgeois didn’t become a famous artist until she was 78. Whatever your dream is, it is not too late to achieve it. You aren’t a failure because you haven’t found fame and fortune by the age of 21. Hell, it’s okay if you don’t even know what your dream is yet. Even if you’re flipping burgers, waiting tables or answering phones today, you never know where you’ll end up tomorrow. Never tell yourself you’re too old to make it. 

Never tell yourself you missed your chance. 

Never tell yourself that you aren’t good enough. 

You can do it. Whatever it is. 

These hilarious fake magazine covers tap into the experience of having anxiety. 

And maybe you can relate — anxiety is the most common mental illness in the United States, affecting 40 million adults aged 18 and older according to the National Institute of Mental Health.

Thank you for the prompt advice! I always want to participate but am never quite sure what to suggest. 

Tip for anyone sending me story prompts (which only applies to me! I’m sure there are writers who feel differently! I feel differently myself when the situation is something other than prompts being sent directly to me!):

Do not send me a story outline. Do not send me a beginning, middle, and end and then expect that I am going to flesh it out for you, because my reaction to something that definite is 99% of the time going to be either “…but that’s not what happens,” or “…looks like you have a story you want to write, pal.” 

Either way, I’m probably not going to write it.

So! When you are giving me prompts, let me suggest a general topic/theme suggestion (”BUBBLE BATHSSssssssssssss” or “Threetoo + prostration”) or a question (”How is Threetoo’s plant doing?” or “Can we have a time Threetoo is hurt and brings it to Tony’s attention for fixing? Does that happen?” where even if the answer is “no” I can write a story about why it doesn’t happen) (that totally is gonna happen, tho.)