février 2012
64 billets
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We’ve seen the sunrise with new eyes.
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Boys' Town, Agartala India. →
Boys’ Town is an orphanage that is located outside of Agartala, India where 35 boys ranging from three to eighteen years old live. Since the orphanage’s inception in 2000, The Holy Cross Providence of Northeast India Sisters have been taking care of boys who have lost their parents due to violent conflicts. Even though resources are limited, the boys have become a big family that supports one...
"I assure you that the long timbers composing your...
camdais:
“Mis estimados:
Do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world right now… Ours is a time of almost daily astonishment and often righteous rage over the latest degradations of what matters most to civilized, visionary people.
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I dreamt a panda bear was my patronus.
…What does it mean?
Daymaker
Walking to the canyon with Arnold and Tumbleweed at my side the whole 2 miles. Dogs really are best friends.
I haven’t introduced Daymakers to Arnold…
“Like the word wild, the word witch has come to be understood as a pejorative,...”
– Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run with the Wolves.
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“Now you understand
Just why my head’s not bowed.
I don’t shout or jump about...”
– Phenomenal Woman, Maya Angelou
"Yesterday in perhaps one of the most... →
“What not-beauty do I fear? Of what use is the power of the not-beautiful to me...”
– Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Untangling the Skeleton in Women Who Run with the Wolves
“I chose to stay present,
to unlearn how to unlove,
to love,
and to practice...”
– Buddy Wakefield, ‘Amplified Stillness’ (via loverofstories)
This is a terrible craving during my dry year...
But if I had woken up from that nap with a basket of fresh sweet potato fries getting cozy with a veggie burger topped with copious avocado, and a Harpoon IPA in front of me, I wouldn’t have hated it.
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via thatkindofwoman)
“This Is Water?”
– David Foster Wallace being a dick at a restaurant. (via nedhepburn)
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Painting & listening to Damien Rice. Mmhm.
“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to...”
– Mary Oliver
PARIS SUR PAPIER: “Oppressive language does more... →
parisonpaper:
“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. Whether it is obscuring state language or the faux-language of mindless media; whether it is the proud but calcified language of the academy or the…
“A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force,...”
– Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves
“You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth, the world...”
– Mary Oliver
“I don’t know exactly where we are now. I only know we’re at the place where the...”
– Dear Sugar column #94: The Amateur on The Rumpus
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“Dear Government…I’m going to have a serious talk with you if I ever...”
– Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire
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“Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a...”
– May Sarton’s Journal of Solitude
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"I also believe in dance." →
Ellen Degeneres. So tactful. So honest. So funny.
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