January 2012
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“No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest,...”
– Hemingway en Midnight in Paris (via laotraisla)
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“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts,...”
– Charles Bukowski (via burnthazel)
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“I could be well moved, if I were as you;
If I could pray to move, prayers would...”
– “Julius Caesar”, Shakespeare
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WatchWhat If Mary and Joseph Had Facebook?
[this was creative.]
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“What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else...”
– Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
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Best Places For Balloon Rides - Articles -... →
Going hot air ballooning is on my bucket list and will be accomplished in 2012.
Out of the Top 5 locations to go ballooning, I’ve been to two and the other three were already on the list of places to visit!
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How Ethiopia's Adoption Industry Dupes Families... →
In the past several years, it’s become increasingly difficult to find a searcher [to search for birth parents/the truth] in Ethiopia. Tasked with determining whether an adopted child is a “manufactured orphan,” searchers have faced intense intimidation in Ethiopia as its adoption system boomed and then came under international scrutiny.
“I say the universe speaks to us, always, first in whispers. And a whisper in...”
– Oprah (via simplyisis)
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“The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea.”
– Isak Dinesen
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T Magazine: Face Time | Tracee Ellis Ross →
Ross, star of BET’s “Reed Between the Lines,” shares her beauty regimen.
I really do believe that Ms. Tracee Ellis Ross has managed to displace Ms. Halle Berry as my #1 girlcrush. LOVE her style!
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Calendar Identity Anxiety
It’s that time of the year when I feel immense anxiety over…what calendar to select for the upcoming year. 365 puppies? Motivational messages? NY Yankees? Word/Joke/Devotion of the Day? Wild & Scenic Alaska? I can’t take it! How am I supposed to identify myself for all to see in 2012?
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Why Is the N.Y.P.D. After Me? →
As a black man in my 20s, I’ve incorporated into my daily life the sense that I might be pushed against a wall or thrown to the ground by a police officer at any time.
This would be an appropriate time to label me an “angry Black woman”. This, plus the story from Friday about a “whites only” swimming pool in Ohio in 2011? #occupyjustice
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“Chase your passion. Not your pension.”
– Denis Waitley
Dancer from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
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30 Things To Stop Doing To Yourself →
another self help list. hey, it can’t hurt…
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5 White Wines for Winter →
White wine isn’t pants. Drink it after Labor Day!
The white wines you know best may be crisp, zingy summertime sippers. But whites with velvety, full-bodied textures and rounder, richer flavors — and often with a deeper, warmer color in the glass — can be perfect for cold-weather meals. Expand your wine repertoire this season with one of these five whites to pair with your next hearty...
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“Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.”
– Sylvia Plath
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Read Every Day. Lead a Better Life. | SCHOLASTIC... →
Twelve outstanding children’s illustrators were invited to create their artistic interpretations of the Scholastic global literacy campaign message — Read Every Day. Lead A Better Life.
The result is a spectacular collection of art, now available for purchase individually and as a 12 Poster Deluxe Set.
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“On the legacy of John Carlos: “You stand up for what you think is right,...”
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Dave Zirin, sports editor at The Nation and co-author of the book, The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment that Changed the World. in an interview with Michel Martin, host of NPR’s “Tell Me More”.
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WatchSprinter John Carlos reflects on he and Tommie Smith raising their fists at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.
The gesture was intended to be noble, not negative. It was meant to bring attention to the injustices occurring in the United States, where the civil rights movement was in full swing. The U.S. was in the midst of racial turmoil — a war against a separate and unequal society.
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Losing 'Virginity': Olive Oil's 'Scandalous' Fraud →
Are you serious?! This is one more thing that I have to be concerned about in a brain that cannot be actively concerned about anymore things. Namely, olive oil not being as virgin-y as it should be? Aaaarrrrrghhh! I got 99 problems and now EVOO is one. Knocking off the previous 99th place concern of Canada dropping out of the Kyoto treaty.
