January 2010
33 posts
“We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards...”
– Voltaire (via carloswritesstuff2) (via chula) (via theresearchsociety) (via libraryland)
"I fight authority, authority always wins..."
So, here’s how my adventures in my new home state have gone so far:
Last Saturday, D. and I were supposed to go to the MVA(known elsewhere as the DMV) to get our drivers’ licenses switched over to the proper state. Not our cars yet, they don’t do vehicle services on Saturdays, only drivers. Earlier the same week, I had sat in the Social Security office for about three hours...
“Be with those who help your being.
Don’t sit with indifferent people,...”
– Rumi, Ode 2865 Trans. Coleman Barks
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“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
– James Thurber (via kendalllouise) (via libraryland)
“For workers everywhere, the American Dream has become a nightmare. We’re working...”
– Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern (via buffleheadcabin) (via robot-heart-politics) (via notemily) (via nerdgasms) (via chrysilla)
chrysilla:
OMG, I’ve been so busy and/or sick the last few weeks, I haven’t been keeping track. Have you moved up here to the “frozen north” yet? How are you guys?
Yep, we’ve been within about 3 hours(by train) of you for a little over a week now(got in last Sunday evening)…not terribly frozen, though, as the pictures show;-)
LOTS to unpack still, and we’re re-thingying...
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Natural Nostalgia
just thought I’d share…
“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing...”
– Jessica Hische on Humble Pied. (via funnelthru) (via nerdgasms) (via chrysilla)
“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been...”
– Ursula K. LeGuin (via a-thousand-words) (via libraryland)
“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry...”
– Dead Poets Society (via ireadintothings)
“To sense the invisible and to be able to create it — that is art.”
– Hans Hoffmann (via nihilnoetia) (via libraryland) (via chrysilla)
“… everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and...”
– George Santayana: (via whisperingwillow) (via cosmic-dust) (via libraryland)
“People become librarians because they know too much. Their knowledge extends...”
– http://librarianavengers.org/worship-2/
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via femmefemmefemme) (via skatingonthinice) (via ireadintothings)
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want...”
– Albert Einstein (via libraryland) (via chrysilla)