February 2012
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“My dear, the creative adult is the child who survived. The creative adult is the...”
– Ursula Le Guin
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“The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are...”
– Elbert Hubbard
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lauryn, you ma gurllll
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Too much that we do is done at the expense of something else, or somebody else. There is some intransigent destructiveness in us. My days, though I think I know better, are filled with a thousand irritations, worries, regrets for what has happened and fear for what may, trivial duties, meaningless torments — as destructive of my life as if I wanted to be dead. Take today for what it is, I...
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jammin’ to biggie
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“How do we decolonize our history? To decolonize our history and our historical...”
– Emma Pérez, Queering the Borderlands: The Challenges of Excavating the Invisible and Unheard
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Kabul [NYTimes] →
Frigid temperatures claim lives of children in Kabul
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“Where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize...”
– Audre Lorde, The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action
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January 2012
21 posts
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“Any book that is written down to children, or with one nervous sideways eye on...”
– J.K. Rowling
yearning
i want the air to smell spicy again. the soil should feel soft, the weather balmy, the showers ice cold and only five minutes long. i want the dust to rise from the ground and then settle lightly around me.
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“Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid”
– Basil King
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“Such black ironies are still much too common everywhere you turn in this...”
– On Cambodia, Pico Iyer, Sun After Dark
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“The problem is that the majority have lost, or ignore, the deeper human...”
– Dalai Lama, Sun After Dark, Pico Iyer
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“Do yourself a favor. Before it’s too late, without thinking too much about it...”
– Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake (via human-voices)
