October 2011
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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How...
– from Fahrenheit 451
I think this book affected me more than I realize.
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Intensive Care Unit
A husband taking his wife’s frail hand into his own… And quietly making the affirmation, “you’ll get through this.”
It’s not easy to hold on to hope and faith, but the heart holds on… We can be love in action…
Story was in no way an evasion of life, but a way of living life creatively...
– Madeleine L’Engle, from “Walking on Water”
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I started losing sleep and gaining weight, and...
the system has broke down.
The highlight of their “Unplugged” album, as far as I’m concerned.
happy birthday e.e. cummings
This is a bit late as it is now passed by 18 minutes. But…
My mom determined he totally would have had to rethink his style had he been Chinese. Or Russian (or any nationality with a Cyrillic alphabet) — my addition.
Now I think I shall write a poem.
Movements don’t write legislation. They force open a line of questions...
– Nina Eliasoph, University of Southern California sociologist
(found in this article… http://www.npr.org/2011/10/14/141347126/for-wall-street-protests-what-constitutes-success … I like this thought)
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I believe that we can help bear one another’s burden. I believe in the power of prayer. I believe that miracles can occur. I believe that I am not just to find avoid harsh and difficult realities, but I am to learn from it. We were never promised to be free from doubt and pain.
That being said… this is not my usual outlet for this. Critical condition… holes in the...
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Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round...
– - Steve Jobs
Thank you for everything.
(via threadsence)
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put out the fire boys don’t stop don’t stop put out the fire on us
So many times I can’t articulate what hope I have and how thankful I am for little recoveries, the evidence of progress and healing, and the joy that comes with tomorrow.
Watch all my presuppositions and assumptions
Violently explode in technicolor.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is...
– Salvador Dali