February 2012
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Just really taking the advice to heart and been doing quite a bit of socializing lately. It’s with pretty cool people, though, so that’s good.
“Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped,...”
– Stephen Fry, January 28 2012, The Times, extracted from The Library Book
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I am infinitely more comfortable with talking in my Judaism and Ecology class than I have been in any other and today was the second time we’ve met. This is such a relief. I have decided to not take Chemistry, and it is off my list of potential majors. I found out this week that we have an Interfaith Alliance, and I am so excited to start going to meetings. I am going home this afternoon, am...
blueumbrella:
Remember to breathe.
It’s been another one of those really long days.
“I feel like talking always brings us closer to understanding, rather than...”
–
Melissa Harris-Perry, professor of political science at Tulane University on talking about racism
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creatingaquietmind:
There’s a Fine, Fine Line |...
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theseviolentdelights:
I don’t need any fancy shmancy words to describe my love for hummus.
I love hummus.
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“Our whole body is like a harbor at dawn;
We know that our master has left us...”
– Robert Bly, from “Waking from Sleep”
A Woman's Perspective on the Interfaith Movement
moon-lines:
“I’m white and non-religious.”
“I’m Asian and Christian.”
“I’m black and Lutheran.”
“I’m an Indian and a non-denominational Christian.”
As we went around the room, on request of my high school AP European History teacher, we stated what we identified with the most. After making the rounds, I will always remember hearing him say, “Interesting… none of you mentioned gender.”
I...
“And if you don’t like to talk to people …” (I guess I’m pretty easy to read.)
Encouraging Post For All
demisexuality:
Your identity is valid.
Your identity is valid.
YOUR IDENTITY IS VALID.
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All I’ve done is embroider things instead of working on my (last!) essay. Gaah, I need to focus.
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“Those who don’t like it say it’s
just a mutant violin
that’s been kicked out...”
– Adam Zagajewski, “Cello,” trans. Clare Cavanagh
“Why does this guy come in at 7:30 every morning, cry for four hours, and then...”
– John Green describing what the baristas at Starbucks where he wrote The Fault in Our Stars must have thought of him. January 30, 2012 at Third Place Books. (via ashakensnowglobe)
Want: Undertone Dinnerware
fritesandfries:
These dinnerwares designed by Kristine Bjaadal take your basic white tableware into something entirely different and imaginative. The underside of the plates have a colorful coating; you won’t even notice the undercoating unless if these plates were set on a white tablecloth for the colors to bounce off of.
I don’t know if this tableware collection will ever hit stores. In...
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“The proximity of distance.”
– Anna Kamienska, from “In That Great River,” trans. Clare Cavanagh (via proustitute)
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“What counts as activism? Why didn’t the kind of emotional self-care me and my...”
– Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, “A Time to Hole Up And a Time to Kick Ass” in We Don’t Need Another Wave (via kru-pa)
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“A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they...”
– from the synopsis of Ignorance by Milan Kundera
“Writing is something you do alone. It’s a profession for introverts who...”
– John Green, from Thoughts from Places: The Tour
I suddenly feel very homesick—and not for where I live, but where I was born. I fell asleep last night to a Hong Kong radio station and spent all morning listening to it too; the voices warm me from the inside, yet also make me a bit tearful. I miss hearing and speaking Cantonese so much—I almost feel like a part of myself has gone missing. I need to call my parents and use my mother...
philomel:
leprintemps:
rememo:
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January 2012
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I'm Taking A Sad Day →
Don’t ask me what is wrong with me. Don’t ask me why I’m sad. Those two are important; write those down.
Listen
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