December 2009
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Remembering 2009 to help write 2010
New Year’s Eve reflections tend to fall into one of two camps: was this a year to remember? Was this a year to forget? We look back on the year to see whether we made good on the previous year’s resolutions. When evaluating the success of our year, we sometimes turn to the good ol’ Protestant work ethic: “What did I do?” Or, more tempting, we pay closer attention to...
What some define as insanity can be thought of as a natural, healthy reaction to an insane situation.
Can I confess something? I want to be the lead singer in a band. Or a pop star. I dream about some variation of that theme all the time.
Okay, so sometimes you do things that you know are against your well being. But there are less than 24 hours until 2010, and I feel that this is an acceptable grace period for self-destructive behavior. Better decisions are to come, I swear!
“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”
– Dalai Lama (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
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Perhaps as cliche as a 16-year-old’s exuberance for Catcher in the Rye, I am still reeling over my discovery of Rilke and Letters to a Young Poet.
“He who has a why to live for, can bear almost any how.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via julie911) (via quote-book)
Reality check, check, and...
waiting for the third one to come today, cause I’m superstitious like that.
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“10. At a four-way stop I can just hit the gas because it is a near certainty the...”
– Sallysmart’s Top 10 Reasons I Love Living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (via edkohler)
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Ommwriter →
liquidchroma:
ideasareawesome:
If you are a scriptwriter, blogger, journalist, copywriter, poet or just someone who enjoys writing, welcome back to concentrating.
This reminds me of WriteRoom, which is also pretty awesome.
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2010: The Year Sans Bullshit
2009 was full of it (literally). How about it, folks? If we work together, we can make this a bullshit-free world. Yes, we can!
“We were meant to lose people we love. How else would we know how important they...”
– The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
Can I say for the record - I DID NOT LIKE THIS MOVIE. Nor do I like this quote. Contemptuous reblog.
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noel vallens: throw it in the bag
theowlsarenotwhattheyseem:
for some reason i have a strange preoccupation with wearing scarves, neckwear, kerchiefs, (and now necklaces) all bank-robber style. so, it’s not really a surprise that my latest crochet necklace is a similar version of that style.
i’ve been knitting variations of these sorts of things for a while. this was a fall-time knit that i did last year in a pretty blue...
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
– Nelson Mandela (as found in The Success Principles by Jack Canfield) (via lovepuppy) (via sunnynsassy)
““When I teach about racism the first thing I say to my students is that racism...”
– Robin D.G. Kelley (via curate) (via kithandkoko) (via fuckyeahtheorists)
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci (via theimpossiblecool)
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“For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via justbesplendid) (via quote-book)
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It's the end of the world as we know it, and I... →
Jerry Walls, the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Eschatology (yikes, 744 pages!), spoke on Talk of the Nation today about our obsession with the end of days.
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Urban Dictionary Word of the Day: airplane mode
airplane mode
When someone cuts themselves off from the world by not logging on to Facebook or checking their cell phones. Usually occurs after a breakup or a rough work week.
Derived from the cell phone setting of the same name in which incoming messages or phone calls cannot be received.
Examples: “Dan won’t answer your calls. He’s in airplane mode.”
“Sarah went...
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