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Olivia Wilde, Misty Copeland, Issa Rae, Jourdan Dunn, Tracee Ellis Ross, Rashida Jones, Yara Shahidi, Tiffany Haddish, and Letitia Wright in Nice For What

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.

Rumi

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Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others’ faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.

Rumi

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First time in Tokyo

Tokyo was unyielding and

uncompromising,

exactly as expected

But nothing I could have imagined


Sakura blossoms in the park with serene

serendipity in every scene and insatiable

coincidence in every exceptional frame of our

lengthy but too short walk around Tokyo


Limitless in macroscopic energy

Tokyo is my heart.

Not inside my heart like some

expression of my love for Tokyo, no…

Rather that pace and cadence

and insatiable nature is my heart.


My heart in how it pumps almost

faster than the rest of the universe.

My heart in how it contorts

and relaxes in a frequency of beats like

the drumming of endless

feet on expansive streets.


My heart in the way it fills

with oxygenated blood and flushes

the rest of my body with life force

like the people in Tokyo going from place

to place

never yielding.


My heart, limitless

in spite of the limited

bounds of my time

and life.


My heart, full

in spite of the emptiness.


My heart, whole

in spite of painful pasts.


My heart, well adjusted in spite of the

design of a heart being overly sensitive.


In the end

it’s Tokyo in my heart,

but her

in every molecule of me


Because it was sitting, watching

the Sakura falling in Tokyo this spring,

thinking of her kind soul

and expansive mind

weaving a vast tapestry for me,

that I realizes she is my…Tokyo.


-PFS

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