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In traditional Japanese culture, there’s an attitude towards artists that’s like, “You’re able to do something you like, so isn’t that enough?” This viewpoint leaves those involved in artistic expression in a tough situation. Because it’s not true. We can’t continue doing it unless it’s a business.

Tamiyo Kusakari

Take the chances a traveler has to take. In the end you will be so much richer, so much stronger, so much clearer, so much happier, and so much better a person that all the risk and hardship will seem like nothing compared to the knowledge and wisdom you will have gained.

Ken Nerburn in the book Simple Truths (via lucybossert)

My friend, Lucy and her partner Colin are traveling around America working on Organic Farms and blogging about it. You should follow them.

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JK Rowling in 1997 at a table in Nicholson’s Cafe in Edinburgh, where she wrote Harry Potter. Photo: Marius Alexander.

If you have not read her recent Cormoran Strike series of books written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, you are missing out. She’s an even more impressive writer now.