Try to be alive

Ida Kar ~ William Saroyan, 1960


“Try to learn to breathe deeply – really taste food when you eat – and when you sleep – really sleep.  Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might – and when you laugh – laugh like hell.  And when you get angry – get good and angry.  Try to be alive.  You will be dead soon enough.”  ―William Saroyan

Laura and Ethan

Garry Winogrand, ca. 1962 
“Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.”Gertrude Stein