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No Cars Here Since 1898
Meet Mackinac Island, where cars have been banned since 1898. Located just offshore of mainland Michagan, in Lake Huron, Mackinac Island and its namesake city have long been a favorite spot for a relaxing getaway. So, when automobiles first began to arrive, loudly sputtering along the island’s once-quiet roadways, startling horses and spitting out smoke, […]
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
~ Anatole France
The Freedom of Not Wanting Anything
“Life just takes care of life…and its doing that even now. But on the human plane, when there is intense expectation, intense planning, intense yearning, intense programming, intense conditioning, all of these energies are pulled together and something becomes very tense about it. In that moment of tension it’s like what’s going to happen? But […]
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living by Damien Hirst
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living is an artwork created in 1991 by Damien Hirst, an English artist and a leading member of the “Young British Artists” (or YBA). It consists of a tiger shark preserved in formaldehyde in a vitrine. (Wiki)