May 2013
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“All your ways are loving and are faithful,
The road is narrow but your burden...”
– Like Incense
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“Your statutes are my heritage forever,
My heart is set on keeping your decrees,...”
– Like Incense
Anyone else fucking scared to return home?
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"Each map in this book diagrams the one thing we...
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/04/02/mapping-manhattan-becky-cooper/
Wouldn’t it be cool to bring this project to Singapore?
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“Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t...”
– Robert Brault (via lunaoki)
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“The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that...”
– E. B. White
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/04/18/e-b-white-on-egoism-and-the-art-of-the-essay/
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One day baby we’ll be old Oh baby...
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We’re adrift on a sailboat, My love is the...
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Boats by Cyril Wong
You and your photographs of boats; that repeated metaphor for departure, or simply the possibility of a voyage? What you cannot tell me, you tell me with a vessel and its single passenger, eyes fixed on some skylit conclusion. Set apart and starkly upon a canvas of tractable waves, brought to still by the trigger-click of your camera, like the sound a key makes when it releases the lock. Your...
April 2013
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“It was easier when I could think the way that everyone else seems to think: that...”
– Sick, Amy Butcher. http://therumpus.net/2013/01/sick/
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Places in Spaces
So many places on my mind today. Boston, Burma, China, Bangladesh. Three out of four of these places are currently going through horrendous things - so much pain and loss. They have different ties to me - one is my ancestral homeland. Another is my adopted one. The third lit me up, and still does. And the fourth - the fourth is where I will be for the next few months.
Have feet, will walk - in...
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Note to Self:
1. Just follow a couple of news sources, like NPR and Boston Globe, who are trying their best to be factual. Stay awaaay from the TV.
2. Look at animal pictures. Like these. And be thankful for Buzzfeed’s existence.
3. Be with people you love.
4. Exercise control over your fingers and try not to post unhelpful things on Facebook.
5. Eat.
6. And sleep.
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“You go about God’s work in your way, and I’ll go about it in His.”
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“I flew the Atlantic because I wanted to. If that be what they call ‘a...”
– Amelia Earhart
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March 2013
20 posts
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“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
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– Endymion, John Keats
March 28, 2013
Yesterday evening, I listened as a boy told me about his life. He came from a lineage of military men; one of his grandfathers was a bomber pilot in WWII, the other grandfather was in the Marines. His father grew up hitchhiking, always wearing a tie, tennis racket in hand, just so that he would get picked up. This boy didn’t know where he was going - all the men in his family had told him...
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Glad Mates of State is still around.
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“For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then,...”
– Rob Bell (via eyes-to-serve-hands-to-learn)
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“I don’t know why I don’t know love.
I don’t know why my...”
– Mother Doesn’t Get It, by Cyril Wong
I wonder how many people sleepwalk through life.
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“Even artichokes have hearts.”
– Amelie
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“She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, “I sometimes think that...”
– ― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
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“I said “I wish you could see the ocean”
He said “I wish you could see hope”
I...”
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Been searching all over for this.
Dreaming of
Xinjiang, Yunnan, Myanmar, Tibet and Mongolia.
“A writer publishes to be read; then hopes the readers are affected by the words,...”
– Martha Gellhorn, who was a reporter for more than fifty years and one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century (via Pulitzer Center grantee laurenontheroad)
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JFDI
Just Fucking Do It
February 2013
25 posts
“I drew a line,
I drew a line for you,
Oh what a thing to do.”
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“How’s the gutter doing?”
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