I like you, internet.

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Tue, 21 May 2013 08:03:01 -0500

veloisto: horse trike.

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:02:54 -0500

veloisto:

horse trike.

explodingdog: forgetting

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:29:13 -0500

explodingdog:

forgetting

Ceilia Woloch, "Fireflies"

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:04:18 -0600

saturnrising:

And these are my vices:
impatience, bad temper, wine,
the more than occasional cigarette,
an almost unquenchable thirst to be kissed,
a hunger that isn’t hunger
but something like fear, a staunching of dread
and a taste for bitter gossip
of those who’ve wronged me—for bitterness—
and flirting with strangers and saying sweetheart
to children whose names I don’t even know
and driving too fast and not being Buddhist
enough to let insects live in my house
or those cute little toylike mice
whose soft grey bodies in sticky traps
I carry, lifeless, out to the trash
and that I sometimes prefer the company of a book
to a human being, and humming
and living inside my head
and how as a girl I trailed a slow-hipped aunt
at twilight across the lawn
and learned to catch fireflies in my hands,
to smear their sticky, still-pulsing flickering
onto my fingers and earlobes like jewels.

Yeah, I dig this.

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:51:04 -0600

Yeah, I dig this.

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:45:17 -0600

“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”

- James Michener (via diaryofacontentstrategist)

explore-blog: Begin the new year with some of history’s most...

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:57:35 -0600

explore-blog:

Begin the new year with some of history’s most beautiful definitions of love.

physicsphysics: Laws of Nature.

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:50:30 -0600

physicsphysics:

Laws of Nature.

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Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:47:41 -0600

explore-blog: Bertrand Russell

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:46:29 -0600

explore-blog:

Bertrand Russell

"[Parents should] recommend some books with female leads that your son would enjoy reading. If your..."

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:34:11 -0600

“[Parents should] recommend some books with female leads that your son would enjoy reading. If your next question is “Why?,” then ask your daughter why she liked Harry Potter. She might say it was a good story, great characters, and a fantastic world. Who cares if the main character was a boy? In fact, girls will pick up a book with a hero or heroine equally. According to my excellent librarian resources, boys will actively avoid books with a girl as the main character. What’s the problem? I have no idea. Why should you encourage your son to read books with heroines? That’s easy. You want your son to grow up knowing that a strong female for a friend, wife or boss is normal and good.”

- Rebecca Angel (via divinehours)

lualualua: Helen Stratton

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:28:58 -0600

lualualua:

Helen Stratton

thedailywhat: Does the Universe Have a Purpose? Henry Reich,...

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:28:21 -0600

thedailywhat:

Does the Universe Have a Purpose?

Henry Reich, the illustrator behind YouTube’s sci-ed channel MinutePhysics, takes a stab at Neil deGrasse Tyson’s response to the Templeton Foundation’s question: Does the Universe have a purpose?

nevver: The wife of the alchemist

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:11:43 -0600

nevver:

The wife of the alchemist

from Michelle Boisseau, "Among the Gorgons"

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:05:34 -0600

poetryeater:

At first it stung. A galaxy of dimes
eyed my sag and crinkles and dismissed
me like a canceled stamp,

but something tugged at me, silver braids
weaving and unweaving themselves
and either the path was shrinking
or I was getting bigger, for soon the way
was just a hair, the extra bit of wit

a grandma leaves on her chin
to scare the boys, and it led me
into a cave crackling like a woodstove
with laughter.

A landslide opened
a seam of rubies and we stepped inside.

nevver: You can stop crying

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:57:28 -0600

nevver:

You can stop crying

what-floats-my-boat: Eames Ad1959 via alsis35

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 23:09:46 -0600

what-floats-my-boat:

Eames Ad
1959

via alsis35

theferocity: “Only a fraction of me is available to be turned...

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 23:02:33 -0600

theferocity:

“Only a fraction of me is available to be turned into art.” Susan Sontag

theferocity: “I was trying to describe the kingdom, but the letters / kept smudging as I wrote...

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 23:02:08 -0600

theferocity:

“I was trying to describe the kingdom, but the letters / kept smudging as I wrote them: the hunter’s heart, / the hunter’s mouth, the trees and the trees and the / space between the trees, swimming in gold. The words / frozen. The creatures frozen. The plum sauce / leaking out of the bag. Explaining will get us nowhere.”

from “Snow and Dirty Rain” by Richard Siken

"During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American..."

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 23:00:59 -0600

“During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.”

- Kurt Vonnegut (via nevver)