February 2012
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On a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam →
itsfullofstars:
in 1977, NASA launched their Voyager mission. The main objective of the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes was to study Jupiter and Saturn. After each fulfilled their objectives, they kept going, out into the far reaches of our solar system. Voyage 1 is now traversing through the very outside of…
Earth Angel
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An angle of light. Believe in it. I believe in the light and disorder of the word repeated until quote Meaning unquote leeches out of it. […]
I already had the seeing taken care of. Even in the months I didn’t have a single poem in me, I had this death and this love, and how’s that not enough? I even have a quote: Love is the angel Which leads us into the shadow, di Prima.
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Enslave me again with your sounds
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Some say you’re lucky
If nothing shatters it.
But then you wouldn’t...
– Gregory Orr, from Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved (via growing-orbits
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A Thousand Voices Talk: Negative Love, by John... →
athousandvoicestalk:
I NEVER stoop’d so low, as they Which on an eye, cheek, lip, can prey ; Seldom to them which soar no higher Than virtue, or the mind to admire. For sense and understanding may Know what gives fuel to their fire ; My love, though silly, is more brave ; For may I miss, whene’er I crave, If…
Whatever I do I must
keep my head. I know
it is easier for me to lose my way...
– Margaret Atwood, from “Journey to the Interior”, in Eating Fire (via growing-orbits
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Faith is the rational belief in the irrational; reason is the irrational belief...
– myfaithmanifestofromreasonandreligionclassincollege
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Manifesto of the Reasonable Fool
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EVERYBODY WANTS TO GO TO JAPAN
EVERYBODY JUST HOLD HANDS
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January 2012
96 posts
HACK REALITY
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Bowie and 2001--get universal, my fellow... →
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Hope from the Hopi
“They should start changing themselves and going back to the old ways of living simple lives, of taking care of themselves from the land that is available to them, and from the food that they grow. These are the things that will help you along the way when you come to your hard times. So, the people must make these decisions for themselves. “
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Video jukebox--love →
ACHING FOR AUTONOMY, ACHTUNG BABY
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‘No,’ she said. ‘Some things you don’t understand, of course.’
‘Of course,’...
– Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (via hauntingcontradiction) Bend your backs and bay the moon
Love is not only expressed in the emotional responses of human beings to...
– Plato, The Symposium (via wine-loving-vagabond)
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The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the...
– Noam Chomsky (via theformofbeauty)
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When the web started, I used to get really grumpy with people because they put...
– Neil Gaiman on Copyright, Piracy, and the Commercial Value of the Web (X)
Read American Gods on a walk from Oslo to Trondheim— made the journey even more magical. Gaiman is a god, and so are we all —Spread the love around
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