You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
—Rosalynn Carter (via quotedojo)
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Xylophone from the town of Bukuru in Nigeria. The instrument is made of drilled pine wood and cow horns attached with beeswax and spider web, and its carrying strap is made of an old zipper.
Dogon Headrest
Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no summer. IT DOES COME! But it comes only to the patient, who are there although eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly still and wide.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
Improvised chimney cleaning device, c. 1940s, United States, galvanized bucket, wood, iron bolts, 13” x 10” diameter, collection of Rick Ege
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