Having Deja Vu. Prolly posted this titled post before.
Recently, with circumstances changing all around, I’ve found how significant it is to just go with it. Clouded thought or overthinking it just turns a moment into a miss. The more instinct takes over and you react from your core, the clearer the happening. Maybe people, regardless of the circumstance, just react differently when it’s genuine as hell.
This consciousness has been poppin’ off across everything.
Just keep thinking (no oxymoron intended) that I tend to fumble things when I overthink them. That’s all.
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Decided to start saying yes to a lot more things. Showing up is 90% of the battle.
Super energized on this. A simple shift has already opened new doors.
Word.
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Crazy. Got called on this all day by my people regarding my performance last night. All good but apparently I was in rare form. I also randomly decided to lift, hoop, and play golf today.
Your Horoscope - Today, June 21, 2009
You might want to choose your words carefully, blah. The energy of the day could be making you a bit impulsive. You love to be spontaneous, and usually you enjoy chatting with your friends and colleagues. You probably make a lot of jokes and keep them entertained. But today you might want to be more sensitive to certain undercurrents. A more serious tone could be in the air, and you’ll want to be a bit more composed.
Just realized the coolest part of the previous Jordan poster was the fact he was staring down the rim at eye-level. Wowzers.
Still obsessed with urgency for finding important ways to document the evolution happening before our very eyes. People are adapting faster and faster w/in the digital community. Our experience or perhaps our brain has our speed of grasp and self-interpretation growing exponentially. Community is scratching their name on the developments, and things DO get better. The amount of historians on this period of evolution will be the largest/strongest we’ve ever seen.
We’re still missing the cross-over that would be mass media’s acceptance of newer school messages around principles, the death of certain social class structures through enablement, and the spread of Global micro-classes/sub-cultures exerting wider and farther-reaching influences. The kid who’s in Sao Paolo. The kid who’s in Moscow. The kid that’s in Granby, CT. We are birds of a feather. Yet, the feather is now our choice, not the result of our parents’ in where we lived in the world.
The anxiety around documentation rings a bell with artists who express themselves through graffitti. A transformational message in an environment that needs it, available for 24 hrs before it’s painted over. What if THAT kid missed a message he could have done something with during that window of time? Imagine if he missed out on carrying that mantle and perhaps finding the revolutionary forum to truly influence change?
How do we ensure we document the lessons we need to learn to become a bigger, bolder movement of folks who fight for education, cultured experiences, and a broader exposure to the world that helps us leave behind a contemporary tendency to lament the commonplace, daily inconveniences. We are so much softer than the generations before us. You have to feel me on that one.
Maybe, just maybe, a better collective education helps us prevent making horrible decisions. Wouldn’t it be grand if we didn’t repeat history where we shouldn’t? Where we were a people that could make a collective right decision informed by what we’ve experienced and learned?
I mean, even back in the 60s, Jimi was asking “are you experienced?”
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Thinking about how life would have been different for some folks if the above picture was never taken. Does anybody know who this photographer is?
Like “To die in suits” which is the greatest downhill part caught ever…you have to credit the one who documented the moment. The over-ecstatic crowd. Jordan flying. Jordan III’s. The clock. Dr. J’s historic dunk modernized with style. Beyond rad. Evolutionary.
So many amazing people doing amazing things right now. Who’s documenting? Has the current landscape blinded us from the responsibility of capturing the folks who are moving us ahead? Have we forgotten to observe as our culture and focalized POV’s have us turning inward for reaction instead of going external?
Look at this image. What it raises as a possibility. The imagination that coasts for a while in its wake.
Think of all the impressions. All the kids who really believed that someday they could traverse the vertical plane. Every kid had to confront the reality of whether they would ever dunk or not. Really - just to see this moment standing firmly at the crossroads of history, culture, and legend is hard to look away from.
An O.G. moment as an example. Also a hardened memory pull I’ve never been able to (nor wanted to) erase.
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