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bitter old bat
so I wonder if that's what I am and I realize primarily I am tired. I am tired the way women get tired when they have to be the strong one, the understanding one, the giving one, over and over and no one gives to them.
but then I wonder, is it just I don't see the giving from/by others because I'm tired?
I am trying to keep the Stoic's point of ( Read more... ) -
while most prob think of our president (lord lov'im cuz no one else does)
I keep thinking about a man I used to date who was so perfect on paper and yet there was something, and now I finally understand what the something was ( Read more... ) -
part of Obama's final letter to the American people
"I'll be right there with you every step of the way," he wrote. "And when the arc of progress seems slow, remember: America is not the project of any one person. The single most powerful word in our democracy is the word 'We.' 'We the People.' 'We shall overcome.' "
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this is part of why The Chick is going to college in another area of the country...
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
http://bigthink.com/robby-berman/its-hard-to-stay-racist-one-on-one-face-to-face? ( Read more... ) -
the real issue w being glued to online media
"That’s partly about listening, and that’s partly about spending time with people from a different walk of life, from a different perspective. There’s nothing like it. You can’t achieve it through online communication. You can’t achieve it through having good intentions. It’s the act of being with other people that establishes the sense we actually ( Read more... ) -
embrace the crazy
“Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge - even wisdom.”
―Toni Morrison
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.
― Chuck Palahniuk
“In the space between chaos and shape there [is] another chance.”
― Jeanette Winterson
“You must have chaos within ( Read more... )
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