No ordinary love, Sade, 1992.

📚 inspiration station 🔮 wandering as a practice 🕵🏽‍♀️ for gusto and remembering.  new post on Dionne.Substack.com       I’m (re)listening to Mariah Carey’s Infinity + Inseparable (sidenote - that was early - find my Mimi faves 🌈🍯🐑🍬💜🦋💕👡🎤🎶✨ via the link)      It feels significant in this moment, a soundtrack for gathering my bits in a chequered picnic blanket to take along to market, nay, car boot sale (aka a “yard sale” in some places) for your perusal. Well, mine too, see, this little portal known as the ‘inspiration station’ has been a regular staple in my life, as long as i’ve been sending out regular ‘newsletters’* since 2010 or so.         *i use this term loosely as i hope my newsletter can be a free space of multi-way-connection and ponderings, more like a digital zine or library of field notes and curiosities and hope and practices of joy but hey, whatever label works!         But She (the ‘inspiration station’ that is) always existed in other forms throughout my life. Online, be it on my preferred portal of the time, Myspace (only up to 2005, latest 2006 because then it got weird and ruined, i said what i said), Bebo (wat?), Hi5 (remember her?), Flickr, Friends Reunited, LiveJournal and the pre-social-media-bulletinboards etc…as well as irl, via zines i made to chronicle my curiosities as long as i can remember.       i try to give a good feed       ✨🕵🏽‍♀️✨     I digress with intention, as want to honour all the ways we research, gather and select the stuff to take with us on the journey.     The inspiration, the giblets, the nuggets of joy or delight that serve as portals of possibility.    Help us remember.     Help us welcome a chuckle.     Help us take a different perspective.     Help reaffirm our mission when treading lonely paths.    Or simply exist just because.     For no other reason than to take an intentional pause.         To honour the curation process, sifting through and selecting what intrigues us, creating collections to bookmark a place in time and in feeling...         📌continues with a bulbous collection of curious audio-visual-multimedia treats in my latest Dionne.Substack.com  🎥 Black Orpheus (1959)

This overpass in Japan look like an extreme slope from a certain angle.

Eartha Kitt performing at El Rancho Vegas in 1955.

Photos by George Silk for LIFE magazine

A guide to making herb and edible flower Pasta

CockNBullKid - Asthma Attack

take me back to 1993 

Terri & Monica - Uh Huh

A portion of Anna Schuleit’s Installation of 28,000 Flowers inside the Massachusetts Mental Health Center

“Take no one’s word for anything, including mine, but trust your experience. Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.” — James Baldwin

Beyoncé photographed by Isabel Snyder (2000).

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Terry Crews coming in with some wisdom

Mariah Carey ft. Ty Dolla $ign: The Distance

Loyle Carner - Ottolenghi (Official Video) Ft. Jordan Rakei

When we were babies... 🧡🍂

Bloc Party - So Here We are