January 2012
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Every person is a half-open door / leading to a room for everyone.
– Tomas Tranströmer, from “The Half-Finished Heaven” (via crashinglybeautiful)
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http://www.27bslash6.com/kotex.html →
“Girls like modern technology. Like telephones and apps. It isn’t rocket science.” - A new 27b/6 just came out!
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They say that the trifecta of happiness is comprised of good friendships, a...
– Ryan O’Connell, “What 20-Something Has Their Dream Job And Dream Relationship?,” Thought Catalog
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods,...
– Henry David Thoreau, December 25, 1856 From The Journal of Henry David Thoreau 1837-1861 (via liquidnight)
My kind of man
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We are unusual and tragic and alive.
– Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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I invite you to discover your vocation in downward mobility. It’s a scary...
– Dean Brackley (via blameitonwanderlust)
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Lost Subways: Abandoned Stations & Unbuilt Lines →
realchrisbutler:
puzzles is a place where people go…
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When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.
– What is the What: Dave Eggers (via rampant-waves)
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We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less...
– The Joy of Quiet - NYTimes.com
A great read from the NYT. Overlaps a bit with the ideas in Hamlet’s Blackberry
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35. value reliability.
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The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important...
– Henry David Thoreau
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(651): Never visiting again. You guys drink like... →
December 2011
42 posts
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Looking for some new music? →
KEXP 90.3 FM - KEXP DJ’s Top 10 Lists of 2011
I got a little excited when I saw a car with a Washington State plate driving around Yonkers today.
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I always believed that creativity is just, sort of, our ability to take these...
– Maria Popova’s Beautiful Mind | Mother Jones
Watch out, the yellow ones don’t stop!
If you pay children to draw, fun becomes work.
– The Overjustification Effect, You Are Not So Smart (via nevver)
Things I don't like about red-eyes
1. Being tired the next day
Things I like about red-eyes (Part 2)
1. Looking at cities from 30,000 ft
2. Frequent fliers sharing their free drink vouchers
3. Blankets!
Things I like about red-eyes
1. You don’t lose daytime traveling
2. Security is quicker
3. The airport is calmer
Stay tuned for “Things I don’t like about red-eyes”
The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are...
– Fernando Pessoa (via quotewhore)
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes...
– Miriam Beard
8. Fridays. Our favorite day of the work week was veiled with darkness over one...
– 11 Things We Survived Together In 2011 « Thought Catalog