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Location: Lower left
Quote By: Robert Bly from the poem "Bad People"

A man told me once that all bad people
Were needed. Maybe not all, but your fingernails
You need; they are really claws, and we know
Claws. The sharks—what about them?
They make other fish swim faster. The hard-faced men
In black coats who chase you for hours
In dreams- - that’s the only way to get you
To the shore. Sometimes those hard women
Who abandon you get to say, "You."
A lazy part of us is like tumbleweeds moving.
Then they blow across three or four States
This man told me that things work together.
Bad handwriting sometimes leads to new ideas;
And a careless God—who refuses to let you
Eat from the Tree of Knowledge—can lead
To books, and eventually to us. We write
Poems with lies in them, but they help a little.

Location: Middle yellow to the right
Quote By: Eleanor Roosevelt

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Location: Middle purple pink line
Quote By: Eugene Ionesco

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

Location: Bottom yellow band
Quote By: Edward Steichen; Wisdom

You know …that a blank wall is an appalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum – a canvas – a piece of film – or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something – that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.

Location: Top
Quote By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is nothing in the world more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Location: purple right pink vertical
Quote from the Bible; 1 Corinthians 13:12
Ref: also Parabola vol. 24, no.3, 1999
"The Symbol of the Mirror," By Titus Bunkhandt

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

Location: Middle yellow
Quote By: Bruce Chatwin from Anatomy of Restlessness,
Selected writings 1969-1989; edited by: Jan Borm and Matthew Graves
Essay: "It’s a Nomad (Nomad) World" page 102
Published by: Penguin Books USA, New York, NY

Evolution intended us to be travelers. Settlement for any length of time, in cave or castle, has at best been a sporadic condition in the history of man. Prolonged settlement has a vertical axis of some ten thousand years, a drop in the ocean of evolutionary time. We are travelers from birth. Our mad obsession with technological progress is a response to barriers in the way of our geographical progress.

Location: Green Bottom
Poem By: George Keenen," Birth of Blender"

(drums under)
avalanche!
fee-fi-fo-fum!
the truth is
(things people grab blindly for
-don’t rush me now-
zen, health food, surfing, Unitarianism,
small business, travel, good orgasms,
painting, hypnotherapy, ballet, food, mozart,
cars, bach, the mountains, kerouac, hamburgers,
neon, Prague)
fee fi fo fum!
the truth is
--don’t rush me now—
what I really want
(what I really want)
are shoes for my son
that grow as his feet grow
what I really want
(what I really want)
is an ice cream cone
that gets bigger
every time you lick it
the truth is
the truth is not the pearl
the truth is
the truth is not the clam
the truth is
the truth is
--don’t rush me now—
the irritation
(drums up)

Location Yellow right band
Quote By: Georgia O’Keeffe, 1976
Ref: Women Artists
By: Nancy Heller, Editor: Nancy Grubb
Published: 1987, by Cross River Press

" I said to myself (in the fall of 1915),
"I have things in my head that are not like what
anyone has taught me - so natural to my way of being
and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down."
I decided to start anew-to strip away what I had been taught-to accept as true my own thinking."

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Location: Lower left Quote By: Robert Bly from the poem "Bad People" A man told me once that all bad people Were needed. Maybe not all, but your fingernails You need; they are really claws, and we know Claws. The sharks—what about them? They make other fish swim faster. The hard-faced men In black coats who chase you for hours In dreams- - that’s the only way to get you To the shore. Sometimes those hard women Who abandon you get to say, "You." A lazy part of us is like tumbleweeds moving. Then they blow across three or four States This man told me that things work together. Bad handwriting sometimes leads to new ideas; And a careless God—who refuses to let you Eat from the Tree of Knowledge—can lead To books, and eventually to us. We write Poems with lies in them, but they help a little. Location: Middle yellow to the right Quote By: Eleanor Roosevelt You must do the things you think you cannot do. Location: Middle purple pink line Quote By: Eugene Ionesco Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. Location: Bottom yellow band Quote By: Edward Steichen; Wisdom You know …that a blank wall is an appalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum – a canvas – a piece of film – or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something – that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you. Location: Top Quote By: Martin Luther King, Jr. There is nothing in the world more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Location: purple right pink vertical Quote from the Bible; 1 Corinthians 13:12 Ref: also Parabola vol. 24, no.3, 1999 "The Symbol of the Mirror," By Titus Bunkhandt For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. Location: Middle yellow Quote By: Bruce Chatwin from Anatomy of Restlessness, Selected writings 1969-1989; edited by: Jan Borm and Matthew Graves Essay: "It’s a Nomad (Nomad) World" page 102 Published by: Penguin Books USA, New York, NY Evolution intended us to be travelers. Settlement for any length of time, in cave or castle, has at best been a sporadic condition in the history of man. Prolonged settlement has a vertical axis of some ten thousand years, a drop in the ocean of evolutionary time. We are travelers from birth. Our mad obsession with technological progress is a response to barriers in the way of our geographical progress. Location: Green Bottom Poem By: George Keenen," Birth of Blender" (drums under) avalanche! fee-fi-fo-fum! the truth is (things people grab blindly for -don’t rush me now- zen, health food, surfing, Unitarianism, small business, travel, good orgasms, painting, hypnotherapy, ballet, food, mozart, cars, bach, the mountains, kerouac, hamburgers, neon, Prague) fee fi fo fum! the truth is --don’t rush me now— what I really want (what I really want) are shoes for my son that grow as his feet grow what I really want (what I really want) is an ice cream cone that gets bigger every time you lick it the truth is the truth is not the pearl the truth is the truth is not the clam the truth is the truth is --don’t rush me now— the irritation (drums up) Location Yellow right band Quote By: Georgia O’Keeffe, 1976 Ref: Women Artists By: Nancy Heller, Editor: Nancy Grubb Published: 1987, by Cross River Press " I said to myself (in the fall of 1915), "I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down." I decided to start anew-to strip away what I had been taught-to accept as true my own thinking."