May15
New Zealand: second best place in the world to be a woman, apparently. From The National Post 

New Zealand: second best place in the world to be a woman, apparently.

From The National Post 

May5
BEST. THING. EVER. More Awesomeness here.

BEST. THING. EVER.

More Awesomeness here.

Apr19
1 month ago
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Tom Waits. Who can compare?

…but you’re innocent when you dream, when you dream…

Apr18

Quod petis hic est

1 month ago

This could be my new life motto

Apr13
Winston Churchill (via politicalprof)
“ Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. ”
Apr6

A Little Fable — Franz Kafka

1 month ago

“Alas,” said the mouse, “the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into.”

     “You only need to change your direction,” said the cat, and ate it up.

I really am a fan of Kafka’s Axe.

Apr6
Henri Nouwen (via azspot)

(via azspot)

“ Trees look strong compared with the wild reeds in the field. But when the storm comes the trees are uprooted, whereas the wild reeds, while moved back and forth by the wind, remain rooted and are standing up again when the storm has calmed down.
Flexibility is a great virtue. When we cling to our own positions and are not willing to let our hearts be moved back and forth a little by the ideas or actions of others, we may easily be broken. Being like wild reeds does not mean being wishy-washy. It means moving a little with the winds of the time while remaining solidly anchored in the ground. A humorless, intense, opinionated rigidity about current issues might cause these issues to break our spirits and make us bitter people. Let’s be flexible while being deeply rooted. ”
Apr4
Karen von Bixen-Finecke
“ The cure for anything is saltwater - sweat, tears, or the sea ”
Apr3
1 month ago
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Le Onde — Ludovico Einaudi.


Beautiful solace.

Apr2
Terry Pratchett (via politicalprof)
“ Be careful. People like to be told what they already know. Remember that. They get uncomfortable when you tell them new things. New things…well, new things aren’t what they expect. They like to know that, say, a dog will bite a man. That is what dogs do. They don’t want to know that man bites a dog, because the world is not supposed to happen like that. In short, what people think they want is news, but what they really crave is olds…Not news but olds, telling people that what they think they already know is true. ”