Lena Dunham

Patron saint of the lost but brave #MaryOliver 🙏🏼

So much truth.

Your Art Will Save Your Life by Beth Pickens is our December book of the month. It is an inspiring, beautiful, supportive read for anyone trying to get their creative path on the right track, especially in this political climate. Use #KeepIt100LD over on my Twitter and Instagram to stay in the discussion. Would love to hear what you think!

The more you know.

#Repost @theaidsmemorial @pokeacupuncture
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“Eugene Arnold Krakower, New York, NY.
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When I was about 7 or 8, Uncle Gene took my brother and I to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The streets were packed and freezing, but my Uncle had been a union electrician for the City of New York like his father and knew the construction sites on the parade route.
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Uncle Gene hoisted us up on a definitely-not-child-safe scaffolding where we watched Mighty Mouse and Kermit in full vibrancy and spectacle three stories about all the regular people crammed in at street level who didn’t have a magical uncle.
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Uncle Gene was a rascal- wickedly funny and full of playful disobedience. He was so different than my parents’ “normal” pale friends with their Camrys and swimming pools and stiff children with whom I was meant to play.
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He was equal parts kid and grown-up, and had boats, and explosives, and a menagerie of wild pets including a bobcat who once famously bit my father on the ass. Uncle Gene thought it was hysterical.
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Uncle Gene was so fully his own thing and he gave zero fucks, even though he died in 1990, thirty years before basic people would coin the expression.
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He made all the other populace of my world feel so flat. Uncle Gene was always vertical, three stories tall, ecstatically alive with color and mischief.” — by @pokeacupuncture
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