June 2011
121 posts
Our Valley by Philip Levine
We don’t see the ocean, not ever, but in July and August when the worst heat seems to rise from the hard clay of this valley, you could be walking through a fig orchard when suddenly the wind cools and for a moment you get a whiff of salt, and in that moment you can almost believe something is waiting beyond the Pacheco Pass, something massive, irrational, and so powerful even the...
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Maria Popova: In a new world of informational... →
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world
and a desire...”
– E. B. White (via nickelcobalt)
WatchRedBalloon Kids Business Cards (by digous machado)
Where to from here?
crashinglybeautiful:
Alice came to a fork in the road. “Which road do I take?” she asked. “Where do you want to go?” responded the Cheshire cat. “I don’t know,” Alice answered. “Then,” said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.”
—Lewis Carroll. (1865). Alice in Wonderland
“I need stories to know I’m not alone. That is reason enough. They tell me what...”
– Why We Need Stories
“…stories are actually first and foremost told by the things we humans...”
– Designing Is About The Decisions You Make Every Day | Co.Design
Plural Happiness by David Rivard
A curtain bellying like a pregnant cloud, warm white light refracted through a tumbler of peat-smoked scotch— a scorcher of a day at cooling end, with stupendous berries to eat in lieu of supper, the scoffed pint box of blueberries chased by a half of cantaloupe & Maytag blue cheese spread across the remains of last night’s baguette— a plural happiness—I feel encouraged for all ...
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“A corporate hairball is an entangled pattern of behavior or a mess of...”
– Amazon.com: Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace
