January 2012
2 posts
December 2011
11 posts
“Own your life. Own every last bit of it. Don’t send your Christmas cards out...”
– Chocolate Peppermint Roll with chocolate ganache — Joy the Baker
November 2011
6 posts
“We receive this food in gratitude to all beings
Who have helped to bring it to...”
– Secular Seasons: Secular Celebrations & Humanist Ceremonies :: Graces & Invocations
A simple Buddhist prayer before meals.
“[Michelle] Williams believes she’s “really grown into” her pixie cut. “I feel...”
– Michelle Williams Short Hair – Style News - StyleWatch - People.com
October 2011
3 posts
“So who’s really being un-American here? Not the protesters, who are simply...”
– Panic of the Plutocrats - NYTimes.com
September 2011
3 posts
“WHEREAS, the freedom to read is essential to our democracy, and reading is among...”
– ALA | Banned Books Week Proclamation
Beautiful.
“…because having faith in something is a very good thing, if only because...”
– heatherross - blog - Taking The Plunge (originally posted in January, 2009)
August 2011
14 posts
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3 tags
“While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most...”
– Stop Coddling the Super-Rich - NYTimes.com
Op-Ed by Warren Buffett. Beautiful. Sensible.
“Fact is, silence is the perfect water:
unlike rain it falls from no clouds
to...”
– Philip Levine Is to Be U.S. Poet Laureate - NYTimes.com
From our new, awesome national poet laureate.
Cheap Twix: Junk food offers more calories for... →
DailyOM - Being Here Now by Ram Dass →
I’m on the cusp of a big life change right now. So I ordered the “Being Here Now” course by Ram Dass on Daily Om. I’m hoping for thoughtful meditations, gentle reminders and a guiding framework to use going forward on my path. I’m nervous and excited.
July 2011
9 posts
“But better to be scared and moving than scared and standing still.”
– What Possessed Me: A pair.
Have I told you how much P. inspires me? I love her writing, her spirit and her general vibe.
“There are hundreds of conferences and reports and studies. But no war, no...”
– Rev. Johnny Ray Youngblood, East Brooklyn Churches, December 1995.
(via Shelterforce Winter 2010)
June 2011
14 posts
STFU, Conservatives: Ms. Magazine: Ten ways to be... →
fistwavingfeminism:
1. Stop making rape jokes. These jokes are becoming really popular right now and they are not funny. The other day, I heard a really famous musician say, “This is my rape face!” while narrowing his eyes and wrinkling up his nose. Another man sitting nearby replied,“Every face is a rape face!” and laughed. Why is it considered socially acceptable for people to act this...
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“The local food, “grow your own,” organic,...”
– Mark Winne, Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty.
This is a major struggle still for today’s food movement. So often co-ops, farmers markets and other initiatives aimed at increasing access to healthy, local food fall short of making it affordable and accessible for...