December 2011
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“Every object has two aspects, the common aspect, which is the one we generally...”
– de Chirico (via like-honey-and-venom)
“Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person,...”
– Ray Bradbury (via youjustyou)
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“Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because...”
– ― nicole krauss (via followyouranchor)
“No matter what I do or try, these happy days will go by quickly.”
– Yumi, Maria Watches Over Us (via kimmyicecream)
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Lily Brown, "We're in the Ocean, Or I'm Alone"
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Repetition smudges in. The lake sets beneath a bird- turned sky. I balance water, rock, flat- topped dirt, the bone I’ve become. Back home, wind throws a tree on the van out front, air goes glassy and sharp. I point to a building, hit brick. Consistent animal, it’s elemental, how we feel. Do you know you’re a photo graph, mapped to a flash?
“The best way out is always through”
– Robert Frost (via simtan)
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KAHIT 5 PESOS LANG
skitsohhh:
There are 25 million Filipinos on Facebook. If each one donates 5 pesos to Red Cross we could raise 125 million for Sendong victims. Here’s how (from the Philippine Red Cross website): SMS Text RED<space>AMOUNT to 2899 (Globe) or 4143 (Smart) G-Cash Text DONATE<space>AMOUNT<space> 4-digit M-PIN<space>REDCROSS to 2882 You can donate the following...
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“Never believe that a few caring people can't...
ellobofilipino:
- Margaret Mead
Help and change the world!
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Reticent: Help Typhoon Sendong Victims!! →
skitsohhh:
Globe Advisory: Libreng tawag centers tomorrow: 18 Dec, 6AM to 6PM. In CdO: Xavier University and City Central School. In Iligan: MSU-IIT, Iligan City National High School. Manila collection centers: NN-ATS Express Center at Pier 2; NN-SuperFerry corporate ticket outlets in 1) Robinson’s…
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Shiny Happy Monster: Please. Please please please. →
princesskinnie:
To my followers, please help save my hometowns. Iligan City and Cagayan de Oro City are the worst hit areas of Typhoon Sendong / Washi. These are the cities I grew up in, the cities that are beautiful and that are full of beautiful people that need love and support, the cities that made me who I…
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“I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t...”
– Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones (via ccredo)
“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”
– Oscar Wilde (via joyandfear)
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Oh great Roxy, how I've missed you
S: My heart is lost. And my head is nowhere to be found.
R: Well, the fun is in trying to find them.
R: Life would be boring if you actually know where they are.
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Hallelujah, I’m caving in Hallelujah,...
“… It is unbearably painful
For the soul to love silently.”
– Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems (translated by Judith Hemschemeyer)
“Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.”
– Mary Martin (via quote-book)
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Sharing Poetry: A. E. Stallings, "Containment" →
sharingpoetry:
So long I have been carrying myself Carefully, carefully, like a small child With too much water in a real glass Clasped in two hands, across a space as vast As living rooms, while gazes watch the waves That start to rile the little inland sea And slap against its cliffs’ transparency, Revise and meet, double their amplitude, Harmonizing doubt from many ifs. Distant frowns like...
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If I told you things I did before, told you how I...
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On family...
Vito Corleone: You spend time with your family?
Johnny Fontane: Sure I do.
Vito Corleone: Good. 'Cause a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
The Godfather (1972)
“You feel like sunlight
that cannot help but peek through
the clouds in my...”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via joyandfear)
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