January 2011
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December 2010
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It's a little bizarre--in the best way--to be able...
Uncommonly warm weather at the end of December? I like this.
“If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been...”
– Joseph Campbell (via oceanofmind)
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it's a lovely universe in us all: What does that... →
oceanofmind:
What does that statement mean, “salvation is here and now”? I don’t understand it. I don’t even know what salvation means.
“Most people pursue physical pleasures or various forms of psychological gratification because they believe that those things will make them happy or free them from a…
“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling...
“Love is a state of being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You...”
– Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now (via oceanofmind)
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Nest-y
Okay. Okay. About feeling all nesting. While the verdict is out on whether art imitates life or life imitates art, I blame my nesting desires upon years of reading purloined copies of House Beautiful and Better Homes and Gardens at my grandmother’s house as well as my current age-confused enchantment with blogs which, at least on the surface, focus on topics that should not even be of my...
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Winter Post-Christmas
I would not be surprised if I have seasonal depression of sorts. That is, MOST years. Right now I just feel all nest-y.
I got some commercial kitchen-quality Mundial knives for Christmas, and I am pondering exchanging the two largest (a giant chef’s knife and a boning knife) for a 8” Global or Wustof or maybe a Shun. Oh, Japanese steel, you are winning me over. But this is an old and...
What's better than a surprise Christmas kitten?
TWO surprise Christmas kittens!!!
Interview with twenty-three year old recent Ivy...
“Applicant: So what’s the next step if I pass this round of interviews?
P: You would be crazy to take this job.
Applicant: What?!
P: I am looking at you and you’re so full of promise! You can do anything you want. Think of the most wonderful job you can possibly imagine and even if it seems totally far fetched, find out who’s in charge and cold call them. You have...
“We don’t have the same fights over and over again. When something is an issue,...”
– Lauren’s post on “fighting” in relationships, from APracticalWedding, which is my favorite. Gah.
“It’s all part of one bigger conversation about the way we want to live together.”
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With paranoia on my heels, will you love me still?
Existentialism is often construed as narrowly egocentric, which may invoke a sort of indulgent paranoia over the self on one end, or a fierce will to affirm oneself in defiance of reality at the other. But these features neglect a very crucial aspect of the reality of our existence: as encountering other bodies and beings—and potentially understanding these as other selves. The founding of...
excerpt of "somewhere i have never traveled
mirrorsandmirages:
(i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
Were I ever to convince myself of getting a tattoo, an excerpt from this poem may very well be it.
“Listen! I will be honest with you,
I do not offer the old smooth prizes, but...”
– Song of the Open Road, Walt Whitman. Worth the whole read.
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“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to...”
– Erin; A Dress A Day (via dearly)
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Trickiness.
So, Williams-Sonoma is running this promotion (I think it is still going on) that for every $50 spent there, you’ll get a $10 gift card in return.
I’m contemplating buying a mixer.
And then buying the chef’s knife.
I feel really strange when I get close to actually doing something I had projected myself doing in the future for a long time.
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Bad Entrepreneurial Idea #12038
You guys.
What if.
I got the bike.
AND the mixer.
And a freaky backpack contraption or special basket to carry my mixer on my person/bike?
I could come to your very own house and bake cookies and cakes and pies in your very own home. Absolutely no chance of business failure or encountering creepiness, right?!
Staving off winter lethargy
I’ve been feeling unusually tired since coming home. The fault may lie in sleeping too much, or the constant grey skies, or that I allegedly have a potassium deficiency and I haven’t taken my supplements (woops) in… a while. So, with that in mind, I made myself a yummy protein-y banana chocolate PB smoothie and I am hoping it wakes me up before the chill of it makes me even...
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It's past 3 am, and I haven't written a thing.
My mind is gnawing at me. What’s so anxiety-inducing that I can’t just slog through this paper like any typical college student?
I am a bit glad the semester is drawing to a close. It hasn’t been, subjectively, one of the worse semesters for me—in fact, there are very distinct wonder parts, despite a shabby beginning. I just want to stow away at home, baking good things...
FUCKING GIRL TALK IS PLAYING AT MY SCHOOL.
AHHH. I LOVE CENTRE COLLEGE. This cannot be real.
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Existentialism and Procrastination: Bad Faith →
fuckyeahexistentialism:
Bad faith can infect our entire lives. We can live in bad faith. When we do, procrastination may define our very being. We put off everything, victim to the situation, unwilling to accept responsibility for who we are and our lives. We even try to excuse ourselves saying, “it’s just the way I am.” Sadly, this is just another example of living in bad faith; a futile...
The Spirit is Too Blunt an Instrument
The spirit is too blunt an instrument to have made this baby. Nothing so unskilful as human passions could have managed the intricate exacting particulars: the tiny blind bones with their manipulating tendons, the knee and the knucklebones, the resilient fine meshings of ganglia and vertebrae, the chain of the difficult spine. Observe the distinct eyelashes and sharp crescent fingernails, the...
Simple Gifts
I am thankful that it’s Thursday, and I am done with all my written finals, even though I have a few papers to finish.
But I’m lying in bed still, and the sun is streaming in through my window blinds and through my paper Christmas decorations that hang like stained glass. I’m cozy in worn cotton sheets, and my boyfriend called to see if I’d like to go on a walk with him,...
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A truffle a day.
I made chocolate ganache a couple of nights ago, and Griffin and I rolled the cooled ganache into balls and in some cocoa powder. So now, my room smells like dark chocolate, and I eat a chocolate truffle every morning and night.
Can I make hot cocoa with steaming whole milk over a few truffles?
Definitely worth a shot.
“If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via navigolucky)
I swear, fuckyeahtranscendentalism and fuckyeahexistentialism are my favorites.
“MODERATOR 1: Okay. Which designers do you prefer?
SECRETARY CLINTON: What...”
– hillary clinton is asked what designers she wears moments after making point about sexism (via rachelinbrooklyn)
LOVE this so much.
(via apsies)
this woman is my hero. carry on.
(via hopesichord)
STFU, Sexists.: What Men Can Do for Women's... →
stfusexists:
This is NOW’s list, written in 1970. Have our allied men accomplished/worked for everything that was listed forty years ago?
Set up a day-care center at the shop or place of work so that more women can be free to work.
Exercise no job discrimination toward women at any level (whether this…