February 2012
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lexically speaking: #47 →
lexically:
In Love, His Grammar Grew In love, his grammar grew rich with intensifiers, and adverbs fell madly from the sky like pheasants for the peasantry, and he, as sated as they were, lolled under shade trees until roused by moonlight and the beautiful fraternal twins and and but. Oh that was…
“Dios perdona siempre, el hombre a veces, pero la naturaleza nunca”
– (via mugshotting)
January 2012
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my travelblog →
check it out. you know, if you want to.
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Arsenic life does not exist after all →
This headline led me to believe that this was yet another case of a researcher fabricating data and I was prepared for disappointment in humanity. Never fear, it’s just the inevitable failure to reproduce results that everyone’s been talking about for a while now. Though the authors still might be a bunch of liars.
I have a problem. Teddy, the stuffed bear my grandfather gave me when I was born, is missing. As I was packing my stuff to go into storage, I remember thinking that I should retrieve him from his under-the-bed adventures. There is a possibility that I did indeed find him and toss him in a box in the three-hour frenzy that was my desperate attempt to consolidate my worldly possessions. I have no...
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“I stand before [my judge] as the product of every action, thought, and feeling...”
– page 14
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“We accept all girls in kindergarten through 12th grade as members. If a child...”
– Rachelle Trujillo, vice president for communications of the Colorado Girl Scouts, responding to a story about a transgender girl who was allowed to join the Brownies.
“You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the...”
– Anne Lamott on intuition vs. rationality, alongside similar sentiments by Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs (via curiositycounts)
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I think I'm going to write a book called "white...
It will consist mainly of clumsy aphorisms addressed to myself, but I think they will be applicable to a large segment of the population.
“I love, because my love is not dependent on the object of love. My love is...”
– Osho (via unfetteringlove
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Mohandas Gandhi: Dear Customer who stuck up for... →
sweetupndown:
you thought I didn’t really notice. But I did. I wanted to high-five you.
Yesterday I had a pair of brothers in my store. One was maybe between 15-17. He was a wrestler at the local high school. Kind of tall, stocky and handsome. He had a younger brother, who was maybe about…
suchasensualdestroyer-deactivat asked: Tag your it! Here are the rules: each tagged person must post ten things about themselves. You have to choose and tag ten people go to there blog and tell them you tagged them. No tagging back lol :p
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“Most discontent comes from wishing things were different, rather than true...”
– page 25 in my take-everywhere notebook. Could be me, could be a Buddhist nun, could be a homeless guy. Who knows.
December 2011
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Anonymous asked: who do you think you are?
“If my face could only twist,
Then I could give my cheek a kiss
And whisper in...”
– Shel Silverstein, In Love (via magictheory)
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eureka!
I’ve found the source of my discomfort with “lifestyle” diets (i.e. vegetarianism and veganism) and especially labelling myself with them.
I would like to quote, if you please, a book review that has sealed this illumination for me. The author of the review described the approach that many people, especially women, take in vegetarian and vegan eating (as well as the...
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The Ethical Guide to Dining Out
utnereader:
Anyone who has waited tables or cooked in a restaurant kitchen knows the backbreaking work, the questionable conditions, and the meager rewards. Now, it’s easy to find the restaurants that treat their employees right with the 2012 National Diners’ Guide, presented by the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC). The guide outlines the pay and benefits of 186 of the country’s most...
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“I think they let us push the boundaries of gendered clothing so that we’ll...”
– stylish girl taking a study break in the scili, looking at a fashion blog
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