March 2012
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Missed Opportunity Weekend
…sometimes it’s all you can think about.
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“Faith is not a heroic journey: faith is the acceptance of being found.”
– Samuel Wells, Be Not Afraid (via recycledsoul)
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“Springtime is at hand. When will you ever bloom, if not here and now?”
– Angelus Silesius (via nirvikalpa)
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W. W. Norton: Do you have readers who come up to... →
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Adrienne Rich: Yes, I do, and I usually say to them—which I also believe to be true—“You were changing your life and you read my book or you read that poem at a point where you could use it, and I’m really glad, but you were changing your life.” Somehow when we are in the process of making some kind of self-transformation—pushing ourselves out there further, maybe taking some risk that...
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“Sometimes I think we’re all just so afraid of life—of both youth and age. We’re...”
– Ariel Gore, Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness (via icicle-melting-time)
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THESE WERE SO DELICIOUS. The photos are awesome,... →
thepennilessfoodie:
Today I began using a new camera, a Canon T2i, which I am borrowing from a friend. I honestly don’t know much about photography other than if you take 100 pictures, you can usually weed them down to one good photo. At least that’s what I do.
Well I was sitting around trying to figure out what I should make for the inaugural usage of this camera and then it came...
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Carrot Cake Pancakes | SmittenKitchen.com →
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“No technique works if it isn’t used. If that sounds simplistic, look at some...”
– Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two (via youmightfindyourself)
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“I want to tread carefully here: I do not accuse Kristof of racism nor do I...”
– Teju Cole. This essay tells the truth. Please do click through and read the whole thing. (HT: Alan)
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Brené Brown: Listening to shame | Video on TED.com →
Still watching this, repeatedly. Will be doing so every other day for the next month. Social worker and researcher Brené Brown, everybody!
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“In place of criticism we must cultivate compassion for those we would judge and...”
– Words Less Spoken:
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Overheard At SXSW
Band manager on her cell: WHERE'S THE MONEY?!
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“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable...”
– Carl Jung (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
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Title and Registration
Three appointments down, (hopefully no more than) two to go before I have legal plates on my car. AAAAAARGH, WHY IS LIFE SO HARD? WHY AM I COMPLAINING ABOUT SOMETHING SO MINOR? Anyway, I’m going to make a cake to celebrate when it’s all over.
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In Childhood by Sarah A. Chavez : American Life in... →
Every Monday, I’m surprised by this column. Thought I’d share.
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“So many terrible things happen every day that we start wondering whether the few...”
– Henri Nouwen (via recycledsoul)
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making this now, added curry to the sauce →
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“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of fear of the...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via primordialnrg)
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sleepflower:
I have been collecting photographs of cream as it is poured into coffee. The moments after the dive, before they are fully merged, before they become inseparable by silver spoons, a phenomenon you would take great pleasure in. Your honor, I would like to present these images as evidence that I know you better than anybody. In your kitchen, at the bed and...
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making this now -- kitchen smells incredible →
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“When one’s in their 20s, I think one still feels that one can be destroyed by...”
– Writer Nick Flynn was working in a homeless shelter in his 20s when his father – an alcoholic and self-proclaimed writer who left when Flynn was a baby – showed up as a client. His story is now a movie called Being Flynn, starring Paul Dano and Robert De Niro. (via nprfreshair)
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“The following day, I attended a workshop about preventing gender violence,...”
– Why I Am A Male Feminist (via e-pic)
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