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knoxavenue:

The “Human Wormhole”

10 February 2012 • reblog: knoxavenue • history people

People who are going to get along really well know it almost as soon as they meet. You spend a little while talking and everyone starts to feel this conviction, you’re all equally sure that you’re at the beginning of something good. That’s how it is when you meet people you’re going to be with for a long time.

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from Goodbye Tsugumi
by Banana Yoshimoto (via sleepflower)

I both agree & disagree with this.  I agree because it’s right, it’s happened to me.  I disagree because it’s not always right, it doesn’t happen every every time.  I think it’s about 75% in my life.  Because sometimes it takes more than a first meeting for my force fields to come down.  And once in a while, my first impressions are just wrong, and there’s grace for that.  I’m very thankful for the true friends I’ve found in unexpected people.  …Otherwise, though, yeah.

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7 February 2012 • reblog: thechocolatebrigade • friends people literature

Alcohol is a delightful social lubricant, a liquid drug that is particularly good at erasing our inter-personal anxieties. And this might help explain why, according to the new study, moderate drinkers have more friends and higher quality ‘friend support’ than abstainers. They’re also more likely to be married.

…given the extensive history of group drinking – it’s what we do when we come together – it seems likely that drinking in moderation makes it easier for us develop and nurture relationships. And it these relationships that help keep us alive.

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“Why Alcohol Is Good For You” - Wired Magazine

(TLDR: Some studies show drinking makes you live longer, possibly because people do it in groups.)

I wonder if alcohol is one of the things God gave us as a tangible case study on the principle of moderation.  I know it’s one of the things I enjoy about Anglicanism.  Slainte.

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3 February 2012 • reblog: davidmaddox • alcohol friends people

Hence reading is self-mastery, because the self (and its affirmations) are held in check while the author (and his structures of thought) are fully attended to. True diversity in literature would be to read authors in circumstances as different from our own as possible, because we might then imagine ourselves as different than we are — not the creature of circumstances, but their master. Reading is fundamental, all right: to a person’s ethical development.

— So Why Read (Fiction) Any More? « Commentary Magazine (via ayjay)

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2 February 2012 • reblog: ayjay • literature people

Incredible!

Incredible!

(Source: annanoodle, via infinity-imagined)

27 January 2012 • reblog: annanoodle • nature science people art

young friends & old friends
photographed by Vivian Maier

26 January 2012 • photography friends people history

The thing about people, we can never resist a door.

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The Doctor
in “The Doctor, The Widow, & The Wardrobe” (2011 Christmas Special)

(echoing not only C.S. Lewis’ setting for The Lion, the Witch, & The Wardrobe, but also the idea from The Magician’s Nephew, chapter four “The Bell & The Hammer,” that curiosity is one of the most powerful forces in the universe.)

17 January 2012 • Doctor Who people

The aesthetic view of life is not, however, confined to those who can create or appreciate works of art. It exists wherever natural senses play freely on the manifold phenomena of our world, and when life as a consequence is found to be full of felicity.

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from Annals of Innocence & Experience
by Herbert Read
(as quoted in The Mind of the Maker
by Dorothy Sayers)

Here’s looking at you, China.

11 January 2012 • art artists people China

ninagarcia:

Somebody That I Used to Know - Walk off the Earth (Gotye - Cover)

  • So interesting.
  • Also, don’t each of the singers sound exactly like they look like they’d sound, lyrically and vocally?
  • The gesture at 2:22, so unmistakable, I like it.

(via tobeginwhereiam)

10 January 2012 • reblog: ninagarcia • music people love

(via photolodico) Basically, a Canadian oil company, Talisman Energy, wants to drill for oil on the ancestral lands of Amazonian tribes, which would likely unbalance their ways & potentially even threaten the lives of indigenous peoples.  Overview video + petition Testimony from local missionaries about how bad it is Canada, how could you?  I thought you were better than this. Life & respect & sustainability before profits, don’t you know that? Derek Webb said/sang it well: “I don’t know the suffering of people outside my front doorI join the oppressors of those I choose to ignoreI’m trading comfort for human lifeAnd that’s not just murder, it’s suicideAnd this too shall be made right.”

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Basically, a Canadian oil company, Talisman Energy, wants to drill for oil on the ancestral lands of Amazonian tribes, which would likely unbalance their ways & potentially even threaten the lives of indigenous peoples. 

Canada, how could you?  I thought you were better than this.
Life & respect & sustainability before profits, don’t you know that?

Derek Webb said/sang it well:

“I don’t know the suffering of people outside my front door
I join the oppressors of those I choose to ignore
I’m trading comfort for human life
And that’s not just murder, it’s suicide
And this too shall be made right.”

14 December 2011 • reblog: photolodico • people culture Peru Canada