February 2012
47 posts
some kind of stirring
There are some people who feel a movement in the mountains. Call it what you will. I get that reaction from a skyline instead. New York City is my Texas, my wild West. Those wide open spaces, waterfalls and valleys, those mountain ranges, somehow hold no stirring for me. Take me to the plains and I will lay in a field and drink in the air, and know it is something, but feel no movement murmur in...
xeno
n. the smallest measurable unit of human connection, typically exchanged between passing strangers—a flirtatious glance, a sympathetic nod, a shared laugh about some odd coincidence—moments that are fleeting and random but still contain powerful emotional nutrients that can alleviate the symptoms of feeling alone.
mountain top reunion, 11 years in the making →
green machine on the white team :)
(via streetsmarts)
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“The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via caryrandolph)
THE NEW YORKER "The Story of a Suicide: Two... →
This is one of the best articles I’ve read recently. Not only because it was extremely well written, but also because it’s made me think a lot about the world we live in today.
By now we all have heard of Tyler Clementi, the young Rutgers student who took his life after a series of events his freshman year; the core of which involving his roommate having spied on him via webcam during...
as written, early early in the morning
It’s nearly 3am around these parts. And I have to admit it’s been awhile since work rather than general urban merriment kept me up this late. I’m itching to crawl right into bed, but it’s just been so long since I wrote, since I sat down and thought things through. Pen to paper as they say. I find myself crawling back towards it even when logic would suggest otherwise right...
Grant Achatz ‘Aggressively Pursuing’ NYC Location... →
noraleah:
For those who dreamed of an Aviary-like experience in NYC — can’t get better than the real thing.
too soon for a hallelujah?
This Kind Of Life →
thekimenator:
“Like many others I know of my generation, I was raised by parents who encouraged me to think that I had all the choices in the world, and all the time in the world to make them. We spent years being told that we could do anything, be anything – even our liberal arts curriculums let us play around in various fields for years before choosing a major, if we ever had to at all.
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“[A]ll parties agree that Proposition 8 had one effect only. It stripped same sex...”
– Judge Reinhardt, finding Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional.
Important. Read the whole opinion here.
(via fullcredit, carolinek)
absurdités de l'existence.: Things to Worry About →
In 1933, F. Scott Fitzgerald ended a letter to his 11-year-old daughter, Scottie, with the following:
Things to worry about:
Worry about courage Worry about cleanliness Worry about efficiency Worry about horsemanship
Things not to worry about:
Don’t worry about popular opinion Don’t worry about dolls Don’t worry about the past Don’t worry about the future Don’t worry about growing up Don’t...
in order that people may be happy in their work,...
- john ruskin (1819 - 1900) | thanks to erehwyna: texturism
