December 2011
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He puts down the pen, folds the sheet of paper, and slips it inside an envelope....
– Alessandro Baricco (via homebound)
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“She wants to know if I love her, that’s all...
But that’s not enough is it? What kind of a love is in the closet waiting for something else to run out so it can have a place in the world? What kind of a love is reserved only for emergencies? What kind of a love doesn’t turn every minute of your life into a waking moment, like everything’s new and fresh and beautiful? What kind of a love isn’t the emergency itself?
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250wordsmith: FROM CdO RESIDENTS: AN APPEAL TO... →
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250wordsmith:
FROM CAGAYAN DE ORO RESIDENTS: AN APPEAL TO NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTERS by Katrina Mordeno Let’s get the word out! National broadcasts about this have been downplayed far too much for the recovery of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan City. Most don’t have running water, and far more without any food. Fast food chains are running low on the availability...
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unconsumption:
Have you wrapped gifts in cloth, perhaps in scarves or other fabric items that are reusable? (It’s like giving the recipient a second gift!)
For some beautiful cloth-wrapping ideas, watch this how-to video demonstrating several furoshiki wrapping variations.
For other furoshiki folding patterns, check out the diagram in the Unconsumption archive post here.
[The video (by...
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Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would...
– Karen Russell, Swamplandia! (via booksijustread)
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[‘Well I would like to make another trip,’ he said, jumping to his feet; ‘but I...
– Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth (thanks, apictureofyouandme)
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Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at...
– Osho (via sunflower-soul)
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happy things: Five Lessons About How To Treat... →
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imgaysoiwannaplay: — Author Unknown
Source: http://www.globalone.tv/profiles/blogs/how-to-treat-others-5-lessons 1. First Important Lesson - “Know The Cleaning Lady” During my second month of college, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed…
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Soulmates do not exist. “Meant to be” does not exist. There is no one person in...
– Fr. Dacanay (via leiiriv)
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Your duty is to draw
Out of the web of wrong,
Out of ill-woven deeds,
A...
– Sara Teasdale, from “Duty” (via the-final-sentence)
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Your duty is to draw
Out of the web of wrong,
Out of ill-woven deeds,
A...
– Sara Teasdale, from “Duty” (via the-final-sentence)
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I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I...
– Libba Bray, from A Great and Terrible Beauty (thanks, crumbleandberry)
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I am thawing.
– Laurie Halse Anderson, from Wintergirls (via the-final-sentence)
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God, I miss winter.
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