April 2011
80 posts
4 tags
WatchTed: On Being Wrong (via Jess Hodge)
Beautiful. How being wrong is incredible if you “rediscover wonder” and the beauty of the moment when you think (she quotes Ira Glass) “I thought this one thing was gonna happen, but this other thing happened instead.”
( I also like how she sums up our views of people who don’t agree with us, we assume they’re 1....
1 tag
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our...”
– Mark Twain
hollandchase asked: Thanks for the history killed suburbia post. I'm using part of it in my paper on our nation's leap to a more Thoreauvian idea of living, though I think it faux.
1 tag
3 tags
How History Killed the Suburb (The Atlantic) →
Neat. Walkable cities FTW.
1 tag
“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody...”
– Andy Warhol
2 tags
WatchTED: Brain researcher Jill Bolte Taylor studied her own stroke as it happened — and had some epiphanies about life
This is epic and POETIC. Jess Hodge and I watched this and bawled.
“I’m beyond everything. I am my own culture.”
– Chris Hassan, on coolness.
Amen, brother.
Contempt
distresses me most of mankind’s proclivities. Be it homophobic, chauvinistic, or misogynistic comments; or the super cool kids making fun of Orthodox Jews or homeschooled Catholic families. I am always at a loss in these moments. I just drink my drink and fake a laugh and feel like I can’t trust anyone*.
*except Julia Butterfly Hill, who lived in a redwood tree for two years, and is...
1 tag
How meditation might ward off the effects of... →
A study at a US Buddhist retreat suggests eastern relaxation techniques can protect our chromosomes from degenerating.
Solving the Mystery of Gaydar (Psychology Today) →
Apparently it’s all in the smell (ahem…pheromones).
(And I’m sure Malcolm Gladwell would argue our accumulated subconscious knowledge of one another.)
the part where we remember, be not afraid.
my love to you all. and to those of you who celebrate, happy easter.
“Be curious and expect miracles.”
– Tom Kenyon
(thank you Eli)
“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the...”
– Dorothy Day
3 tags
3 tags
WatchVideo: Park Slope Woman Narrowly Escapes Attack (Gothamist)
Keep your wits about you ladies, walk where it’s well lit, in the middle of the street, preferably with a buddy.
1 tag
i just had acupuncture. i feel stoned. but also...
i’ve never felt this relaxed before. whoa.
“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely...”
– E.B. White (via zen-archy)
The Kickstarter Blog: The Garden Summer, Lovin'... →
kickstarter:
The Garden Summer — by Hailey Wist
Last year, Hailey Wist raised funds on Kickstarter to make a documentary about a summer spent learning, working, and gardening on her family’s rural Arkansas farm. She invited four of her best (ed note: “most willing”) city-dwelling…
WANT.
7 tags
WatchPBS.org: On Gratitude by Brother David Steindl-Rast (Catholic-Zen monk)
We cannot be grateful for war. That’s an unmitigated evil. We cannot be grateful for exploitation, for untimely death. But we can be grateful in every situation. The key word is “opportunity.” If you catch onto that, then if we are in practice, when something comes along for which we cannot be grateful, spontaneously we...
7 tags
7 Ways to Stay Out of the Psych Ward by Therese...
In honor of the little known subject called mental health.
7 Ways to Stay Out of the Psych Ward by Therese Borchard
It’s been three years since I’ve dined in the community room of a psych ward with some fellow depressives…trying to slice a piece of rubber turkey with a plastic knife while wondering what I had to do to get out of there. I would like very much not to return. I...
2 tags
3 tags
1 tag
2 tags
“Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a...”
– Pedro Arrupe
2 tags
1 tag
“Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men...”
– Dorothy Day
On a Dorothy Day kick. Love her.
1 tag
“Samson” by Regina Spektor
Just A Smack On The Ass: A Tale Of Sexual Assault,... →
A guy slapped a woman on the rear on the street. She decided she’d had enough.
You go, girl.
1 tag
MSNBC: Are we there yet? Family travels world for... →
Awww hell yeah. I was homeschooled!
1 tag
“We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution...”
– Dorothy Day
