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March 2010

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“All the ideas and intelligent, fearless phrases she had learned were empty after all. Yet she did not know this. She had given up reading long ago, and did not realize the first thing in life is to make a living, that to do this people must advance hand in hand, or go forward singly. All she could do was cling to someone else’s clothing, making it difficult even for a fighter to struggle, and bringing ruin on both.” —From Lu Xun - Regret for the Past
Mar 31, 20100 notes
“

It is a restless moment.
She has kept her head lowered,
to give him a chance to come closer.
But he could not, for lack of courage.
She turns and walks away.

That era has passed.
Nothing that belonged to it exists any more.

He remembers those vanished years.
As though looking through a dusty window pane,
the past is something he could see, but not touch.
And everything he sees is blurred and indistinct.

”
—From “In the Mood for Love.”
Mar 31, 20100 notes
#love #memories #movies
Come through the trees of the hills of the seas

come through the trees
of the hills of the seas
and we’ll dance all over the sand

the pipers will sing
and sand fleas will sting
but we’ll dance touching fingers and hands

the sun’s going down
and there’s no one around
to spy on our spirited prancing

you sing a song
and i’ll step right along
and giggle at sounds of romancing

the moon moving aft
will look down and laugh
at our sillies and sighs and fun

and we’ll dance o’er the sea
your mind, soul, and me
and never come back till we’re done.

Mar 31, 20100 notes
#Dance #Arts
“I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I’m for that. Where the government is necessary, I’m for that. I’m deeply suspicious of somebody who says, “I’m in favor of privatization,” or, “I’m deeply in favor of public ownership.” I’m in favor of whatever works in the particular case.” —

John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (1908-2006)

Mar 31, 20100 notes
#economists #John Kenneth Galbraith #Economic #Social Sciences #Politics
Mar 31, 2010511 notes
#Unicorn #Unicorns #Unidog
“One might say that industrialization eradicated hand-crafted production to the point where all objects are machine-made. That is true by and large, and it accurately describes the destination of a trend. But the trend has a few notable exceptions. In an era of objects made completely by machines, hand-made items are a scarcity and thus command very high prices. A few—but only a few—shrewd artisans and entrepreneurs can make a living crafting items by hand, items such as bicycles, furniture, guitars, that would ordinarily be stamped out in a factory. Resistance is marginal, but profitable. The same will be true in the networking of the economy. Resistance will not be futile. In a world of ubiquitous connection, where everything is connected to everything else, scarce will be the person not connected at all, or the company not pushing ideas and intangibles. If these mavericks are able to interface with the networked economy without losing their distinctivness or value, then they will be sought out, and their products priced high. One can imagine a successful idea-artist in the year 2005 who does no email, no phone, no videoconferences, no VR, no books, and who does not travel. The only way to get her fabulous ideas is in person, face-to-face at her hideout, live. The fact that she is booked 8 months in advance only adds to her reputation.” —

New Rules for the New Economy (via azspot)

I want to be that “successful idea-artist” who is free from in-your-face-marketing-messages-every-channel-all-the-time-especially-on-every-tiny-insignificant-self-absorbed-micro-blogging-social-media-platform.

Mar 30, 20108 notes
#marketing #social media #ideas #networking #face-to-face
“Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.” —Peter Mere Latham, physician and educator (1789-1875)
Mar 30, 20100 notes
#medicine
Mar 29, 2010442 notes
#Texas #textbooks #idiocy
“Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.” —Richard C. Trench, poet (1807-1886)
Mar 28, 20100 notes
“Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven’t done a thing. You are just talking.” —Wangari Muta Maathai, activist and Nobel laureate (b. 1940)
Mar 25, 20100 notes
I Spilled an Easter Egg Today

I spilled an easter egg today

the yolk ran out and ran away

up the road and over the bridge

and jumped on a cloud floating next to the ridge

I broke my irish flute last week

instead of a toot, it made a squeak

so I put it to rest in its wee little bed

and gave it some cake and a pat on the head

I dropped my cat upon her head

she said that’s fine I sure ain’t dead

I’ll read a book and drink some tea

and all the birds will smile at me

Mar 25, 20100 notes
#easter #easter egg #irish flute #flute #cats #birds
Mar 25, 201044 notes
#sarah palin #politics #hate crimes
Mar 25, 2010108 notes
#cats #lasers #lazers
Apple Pie and Mango Juice

Apple pie and mango juice

go very well together

Apple pie and mango juice

in the sunny weather

When I eat my apple pie

Mango juice is close nearby

When I drink my mango juice

Apple pie is on the loose

Apple pie, apple pie, shiny like a firefly

mango juice, mango juice,

drink it all down with a WHOOSH

Apple pie and mango juice

go very well together

Apple pie and mango juice

in the sunny weather

Mar 24, 20100 notes
#apple pie #mango juice #poetry #music
“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.”
—Mother Teresa (via kari-shma)
Mar 24, 20102,689 notes
#mother teresa
Mar 24, 20106,331 notes
#food, #money #life #wealth #health #battle #torture #starvation #gratitude
“The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a heaven that it shows itself cloddish.” —Evelyn Waugh, novelist (1903-1966)
Mar 24, 20100 notes
“To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.” —Marcel Proust, novelist (1871-1922)
Mar 23, 20100 notes
#Marcel Proust #writing #books
Play
Mar 22, 20100 notes
#prisons #prison labor #Daemon
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” —Carl Sagan (via emilyposts)
Mar 22, 20102,580 notes
#Carl Sagan
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