December 2009
13 posts
“We suffer a lot in our society from loneliness. So much of our life is an...”
– Ajahn Sumedho (via nostalgicdreams) (via curate)
Pasko sa Pilipinas
Kahapon nang umaga, nakasakay sa isang dyip patungong Divisoria, may dalawang batang biglang sumakay sa aming sasakyan, ang isa ay pumasok at nag-abot ng pulang ang pao sa mga pasahero, at ang isa nama’y umupo sa paanan ng estribo. Nang maabutan na ng isang bata ang lahat ng ang pao, umupo siya sa tabi ng kasama niya. Mula sa isang kanto hanggang sa susunod na pagtigil ng dyip, kumanta...
Let Us Hold That For You
curate:apatosaurus:
I strongly believe that one of the tasks of people in community - any community, any network of people who depend on and care for each other - is to be the stewards of memory and hope when one of their number is doing the hard work of coping with despair. This doesn’t mean that community members admonish each other to buck up and be cheerful on demand. This means that, when...
“But don’t forget who you really are. And I’m not talking about your so-called...”
– Louis Sachar (via fuckyeahhappy) (via pineappleupsidedown) (via themorninglight)
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;...”
– Calvin Coolidge (via jnunemaker)
“At least I’ve learned this much:
Life doesn’t have to be
all poetry and roses....”
– Julie Alger (1927 - 1994) (via ventisette) (via yearslater)
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“And while this story is breaking news around the world, certain political...”
– John Mangun
Read the entire article here: http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/home/opinion/18980-the-climate-change-fraud.html
there are no guidelines at all
“There are no exact guidelines. There are probably no guidelines at all. The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance....
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“Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful...”
– Vaclav Havel
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“To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via janettt) (via quote-book) (via infinitebutterflies) (via thresca)
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In my bus to work, a conversation overheard —- a conversation I strained my ears to hear. The bus driver took the day off last Sunday and helped his eldest son with homework. They had to go to SM, perhaps buy a book, because the homework had something to do with Ibong Adarna. “Bertday pa niya, kaya nag-Jollibee kami pagkatapos.”
The things we take for granted. A meal that...
November 2009
8 posts
“In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not...”
– Yevgeny Yevtushenko (via ontheborderland) (via lastchatwithphontaine) (via dyssonance) (via constantwanderlust)