July 2011
183 posts
In my silence I learned to hold you and know your voice…
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supporting : Jewels of Change →
Ben Okri →
Ben Okri, interviewed yesterday by CNN, on his struggle to be a writer.
“It is in difficult times that the great times are dreamt and built, brick by brick; with maturity and hope that comes from wise action.”
NeKKa -heartbeat →
It is only with the heartthat one can see rightly;What is essential isinvisible to the eye. ~Antoine De Saint-Exupery, from ‘The Little Prince’
He puts down the pen, folds the sheet of paper, and slips it inside an envelope. He stands up, takes from his trunk a mahogany box, lifts the lid, lets the letter fall inside, open and unaddressed. In the box are hundreds of identical envelopes, open and unaddressed. He thinks that somewhere in the world he will meet a woman who has always been his woman. Every now and again he regrets that...
the biggest threat to western values →
”We have to be a generation of young people that can proudly take our...
– Zodwa Nsibandre at the Democracy Forum in SA, & General Secretary of the Abahlali baseMjondolo youth league
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Silent in the moonlight, no beginning or end.
Alone, and not alone.
A man and a woman lie
On open ground, under an antelope robe.
They sleep under animal skin, looking up
At the old, clear starts. How many years?
The robe thrown over them, rough
Where they sleep. Outside, the moon, the plains
Silent in the moonlight, no beginning or end. ~ Robert Bly from Talking into the Ear of a...
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Kant, Copyright & communicative Freedom →
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How Did the rose Ever open it’s heart And give this world All its Beauty? It felt the encouragement of light Against its Being, Otherwise, We all remain Too Frightened ~ hafiz
Oyasumi →
上原ひろみ
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The principle reasons for me, as far as being a writer were: you were your own...
– Writer Donald Ray Pollock tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross why he left his job at a papermill when he was 45 and started to write fiction. (via nprfreshair)
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Love Always →
A film about Kerouac, Cassady and Me.
Encryption saves →
kind of cool !Lol./.
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futuristic solutions for climate change →
social media goes vintage →
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we feel fine →
A database of human feelings mapped from blogging interfaces
Googilization & why we should worry. →
“We trust Google with our personal information and preferences and with our access to knowledge because we trust technology that satisfies our prejudices.”
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places to go ... →
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Germany Offers Loans to Libyan rebels →
sunbathing…
Iranian nuke scientist shot. →
& by who /
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