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Japan earthquake + tsunami
Just a quick note to let everyone know that we in Thailand are fine-- waaaay too far from the "action" to see any direct repercussions. We're watching the news just like everyone else.
All of our friends and acquaintances in Japan are safe, too, thankfully, but our hearts go out to everyone. -
Happy 2011!
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make art - write or draw or build or sing or live only as you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
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If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal. -
Thinking ahead...long-term
I've recently become a member of the Long Now Foundation. If you're not familiar with it, I suggest you check it out, because...well. It's important.
I particularly recommend this essay by Michael Chabon, which does a marvelous job of summing up what this is all about. To quote:
If you ask my eight-year-old about the Future, he pretty much ( Read more... ) -
Better late than never.
[When you see this, post a poem in your journal, if you haven't already.]
From An Atlas of the Difficult World, Adrienne Rich
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One night in Monterey Bay the death-freeze of the century:
a precise, detached calliper-grip holds the stars and the quarter-moon
in arrest: the hardiest plants crouch shrunken, a "killing frost"
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This is a fun one!
Thanks to eugenetapdance.
Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday (month and day). Then you write down 3 events, 3 births, 3 deaths, 3 holidays, and tag 3 friends, or as many or as few people as you please.Events ( Read more... ) -
150 years ago...
...Michael Faraday gave a series of six lectures to schoolchildren at London's Royal Institution, over the Christmas holiday. His topic? "The Chemical History of a Candle". They read just as well today as they must have once upon a time-- talk about a marvelous popular science speaker and writer. (As someone said, he brings to mind Bill Nye ( Read more... ) -
Oh, why not.
Today has been declared Lurker Amnesty Day! Have you read me but never commented? Do you surf by occasionally? Here for the fic? Say hello! You are under no obligation to ever comment or delurk again, but here's a chance to do so in a post just for that.
