February 2012
128 posts
“Youthfulness is not determined by one’s age; it is determined by one’s life...”
– Daisaku Ikeda (via sweeteataylor)
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Modern Love Musings →
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“Take me to some high place of heather, rock and ling
Scatter my dust and ashes,...”
– Ewan MacColl
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“My faith has been tempered in Hell. My faith has emerged from the flames of the...”
– Vasily Grossman
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Spirited Away: Sofia could have done so much... →
sirupeux-amour:
Where is the music that makes “Marie-Antoinette” charm? I know it was on one hand to do something completely different from the lush and girly M-A and on the other hand to stress the emptiness and lifeless life of the protagonist. But on the contrary, some scenes became unbearable by their long…
‘Somewhere’ is a beautiful and subtle attack on the values of...
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“Being a leftist is a calling, not a career; it’s a vocation, not a profession....”
– Cornel West
“Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may...”
– Helen Keller (via misswallflower)
“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days - three such...”
– John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne (via audreylostinparis)
“The downfalls of freelancing are precisely why contract work has become so...”
– Autostraddle — Freelancers Freelancing Their Way Into Jeopardy
emphasis mine.
so I mean, I’m always glad to see sites that don’t cover labor as a beat writing about it!
But she makes a GREAT point here and then backs away from it—and then actually, literally says in the next graf that “Call it...
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“I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and...”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via thechocolatebrigade)
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Sorry Sunday Times, Berlin’s clubs aren’t... →
Those prudish Londoners ought to visit San Francisco’s club scene sometime…
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Into the Dark and Frozen Arctic
The Inuits managed to survive in the wind swept frozen Arctic with only driftwood, rocks, animal bones and ivory for their tools. They learned how to make fire from ice, using a small block of ice as a magnifing glass and sunbems to cause igniting heat on dry grass and seaweed.
The Inuit learned many things over the centuries, how to construct a fishing boat with walrus skin, how to stalk and...
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James Hansen: 'The Case for Young People and... →
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“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth...”
– Bob Marley (via airplaying)
“Sex-negative messages don’t keep people from having sex. They keep people from...”
– Sex-Negative Education and the Spectre of Rape « Sex Positive Activism (via anorable)
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Grown Wild
Often recently I’ll have these epiphanic moments, very brief, where I feel I can see with real clarity something like perfect beauty. The duration of these moments is perhaps only a second or less but they can leave an afterglow that lasts hours. What I find frustrating is that I can’t convey these moments at all, can find no words to begin to describe them. They are...
“We have lost touch with the natural order of things… which day of the workweek...”
– Thomas Berry in Endgame Vol. II: Resistance I have often thought this culture cannot be saved. It can’t be. In these moments, I wander, I yearn, that I may at least remember the beauty not yet lost. (via americawakiewakie)
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Greek Police Federation Prepares Arrest Warrants... →
Police finally turn on their elite paymasters.
The Greek police officers’ union called for arrest warrants to be issued for European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund officials negotiating austerity measures for a national debt bailout.
The Greek Federation of Police Officers said in a published letter it will ask for arrest warrants for former European Commission...
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“And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins.”
– The Silver Chair, by C. S. Lewis (via waitingforteaagain)
