February 2012
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“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time...”
January 2012
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Not just an obsession but a fantastic photo too.
I like him, a lot.
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Nothing Good Gets Away: Letter from Steinbeck on...
In November of 1958, John Steinbeck — the renowned author of, most notably, The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and Of Mice and Men — received a letter from his eldest son, Thom, who was attending boarding school. In it, the teenager spoke of Susan, a young girl with whom he believed he had fallen in love. Steinbeck replied the same day. His beautiful letter of advice can be enjoyed below. (Source:...
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December 2011
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November 2011
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“We don’t stop playing because we grow old.
We grow old because we stop...”
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“The imagination of a boy is healthy,
and the mature imagination of a man is...”
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WatchFashion and style is for always. Who cares how old you are?
http://www.nowness.com
October 2011
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“I must learn to love the fool in me—the one who feels too much, talks too...”
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WatchA beautiful stop animation film by Spike Jonze. The whole story is here:
http://www.nowness.com/day/2011/10/17/1640/spike-jonze-mourir-aupres-de-toi
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A life not lived?
Someone asked the Dalai Lama what surprises him most. This was his response. “Man, because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; He lives as if he’s never going to die, and then...
September 2011
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“An apostrophe is the difference between a business that knows its shit and a...”
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The List Part 1.
As a teacher and parent I am saddened by how many great films are missed by today’s teens. As such I have felt compelled to compile a list of Must Sees; this list includes films I loved as a teenager, films that have heart, might teach something, might be great art, or simply great fun. But above all they are films of quality. Some are terribly outdated, some still live on and are relevant....
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On living.
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde
“Men go abroad to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.”
St. Augustine.
“There is nothing noble...
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What is love today?
“What is desire?- The impulse to make someone else complete?”
Theodore Roethke. From ‘Four for Sir John Davies.’
“In everyone there sleeps
a sense of life lived according to love.
To some it means the difference they
could make
By loving others, but across most it sweeps
As all they might have done
had they been loved.”
Philip Larkin. From ‘Faith...
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To travel is to live
“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.”
Moorish Proverb
“Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.”
Pascal, Pensées.
“One commonly held delusion is that men are the wanderers and women the guardians of the hearth and home. This can, of course be so. But women, above all, are the guardians of continuity: if the hearth moves, they move...
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Still Life by Elizabeth Daryush
Still Life
Through the open French window the warm sun Lights up the polished breakfast-table, laid Round a bowl of crimson roses, for one - A service of Worcester porcelain, arrayed Near it a melon, peaches, figs, small hot Rolls in a napkin, fairy rack of toast, Butter in ice, high silver coffee-pot, And, heaped on a...
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WatchJude Law reading Poker Face.
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