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Frida Kahlo de Rivera: July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo

A Strong Woman, An Inspiration... A Legend.

I'd like to share one of my favorite excerpts from her diary:

"No one is more than a function - or part of a total function.
Life goes by, and sets paths, which are not traveled in vain.
But no one can stop "freely" to play by the wayside, because he will delay
or upset the general atomic journey.
From this comes discontent
From this comes despair and unhappiness.
We all would like to be the sum total
and not one of the numerical elements.
Changes and struggles disconcert us,
terrify us because they are constant and certain,
we search for calm and "peace"
because we foresee the death that we die every second.
Opposites unite and nothing new or arhythmic is dicovered.
We take refuge in, we take flight into irrationality, magic, abnormality,
in fear of the extraordinary beauty of the truth of matter and dialectics,
of whatever is healthy and strong - we like being sick to protect ourselves.
Someone - something - always protects us from the truth - Our own ignorance
and fear.
Fear of everything - fear of knowing that we are no more than
vectors direction
construction and destruction
to be alive,
and to feel the anguish of waiting for the next moment
and of taking part in the complex current (of affairs)
not knowing that we are headed toward ourselves,
through millions of stone beings - of bird beings -
of star beings - of microbe beings -
of fountain beings toward ourselves -
variety of the one incapable of escaping to the two -
to the three -
to the usual -
to return to the one.
Yet not the sum (sometimes called God -
sometimes freedom sometimes love) -
no
- we are hatred - love - mother - child - plant - earth -
light - ray - as usual - world bringer of worlds -
universes and cell universes...
Enough!"

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Jason "The mofoJT" Ternus, 1974 - 2010