Texas State Senator Wendy Davis (D-SD 10) filibusters SB5, a bill that would ban all abortions in Texas after 20 weeks and close all but 5 abortion clinics in the state of Texas.
(via agentdanascully)
| Interviewer: | Does something bother you? How can you write poetry if you are not bothered by something? |
| Leonard Cohen: | When I get up in the morning... my real concern is to discover whether I'm in a state of grace. And if I make that investigation, and I discover that I am not in a state of grace, I try to go [back] to bed. |
| Interviewer: | What do you mean by a state of grace? |
| Leonard Cohen: | A state of grace is that kind of balance with which you ride the chaos that you find around you. It's not a matter of resolving the chaos--because there's something arrogant and warlike about putting the world in order--but having a kind of escape ski down over a hill, just going through the contours of the hill. |
| Interviewer: | Oh, you have lost me! |
Mighty Late Bloomers of the Arts
For all of you who’ve felt even for a second that it’s ever too late:
1. Charles Bukowski had his first book published when he was 49
2. Leonard Cohen was 33 when his first album was released
3. Marina Abramovic’s career as an independent artist wasn’t solidified until she was 42
4. Julia Child’s career started when she was 36
5. Van Gogh started drawing when he was 27
6. Monet painted Sunrise when he was 33, but wasn’t creating his best work until his early 40s
7. Kazuo Ohno started dancing at 27
8. William S. Burroughs had his first novel published when he was 39
(via somepalechick)
