February 2011
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January 2011
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“When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for...”
– Anaïs Nin, in her diaries
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Head on over to The Big Picture to see more selections from the 2010 National Geographic Photo Contest.
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“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are...”
– Anaïs Nin (via divakoza)
It appears that I have been hibernating.
I have the first symptom: restlessness. <— Ditto.
(via thelastbite)
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In the mood for love, Wong Kar-Wai
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“When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears....”
– Albert Camus, from A Happy Death (via aubade) (via idratherbereading)
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“It took my lifetime
to finally understand:
home is a person.”
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I think I’ve learned this sooner than my lifetime.
Ditto.
Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
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“Tu ne quaesieris (scire nefas) quem mihi, quem tibi
finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nec Babylonios
temptaris numeros. Vt melius quicquid erit pati!
Seu pluris hiemes seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam,
quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare
Tyrrhenum, sapias, uina liques et spatio breui
spem longam reseces. Dum loquimur, fugerit inuida
aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
–...
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WatchA ravishing sight. A glimmering night.
How do birds wheel and soar in flocks without colliding? Three simple rules: go the same direction as everyone else. At the same speed. And don’t bump into anyone.
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Adulthood
I wrote this a while ago:
Last night as I placed two beers leftover from bowling into the fridge I realized I’d done it. I’d arrived in adulthood. And there was no glamour, no pomp. Only the whir of the condenser starting, the clink of the bottles against each other and the darkness after the door sucked shut. I lingered in the dark, drawing adult breaths. When I’d lived in New...
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WatchThe Status of Wikipedia after 10 years. 270 languages. 17 million articles, broad and deep. 1.2 million editors. 400 million visitors every month. And still, open to anyone.
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“Nothing can be given or taken away; nothing has been added or subtracted;...”
– Henry Miller, Nexus.
Thank you, Whiskey River. (via crashinglybeautiful)
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“‘True learning,’ Ivan Illich once said, ‘can only be the...”
– Gustavo Esteva in Yes! Magazine
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“‘Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?’ said...”
– A.A. Milne
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WatchLaugh, laugh, laugh, if no one gets hurt.
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“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to leave...”
– Henry Thoreau
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“My senior year of college, I wrote an essay about how strange it seemed to me...”
– BRITTICISMS: Grown Up Talk
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Mots Sans Frontieres →
I have been always rewarded reading authors from cultures, countries and philosophies unlike mine. Many of my soulmates look or speak unlike me.
Help fund the work of Words Without Borders.
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“One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (via the-madame-hatter)
He also said, “I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”