January 2012
64 posts
“You can’t explain why you like something. The bigger question for me was always...”
– Stew, on how people like music or don’t like music because they think other people think they should like or dislike it. (via nprfreshair)
Mountain Fever. →
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“I want to put a positive spin on all the anger and lamentation about...”
– Dr. Padmapani Perez on Baguio and what it can be.
Call her Hollywood: i hate power trippers! →
callherhollywood:
so this morning before our game, i went to our meeting place which is in front of the church. so my driver was pulling into a parking slot when this guy dressed in black (who was some sort of security guard) tells us, “Sir, sorry ho. reserved na po ito sa secretary ng DND.” so i said “ano? may…
Read full post :) And Ina, how do I explain that I really, really love you?...
musiquevisuelle:
Dear Insomnia, With all due respect, screw you. Now make me coffee.
I FEEL YOUR PAIN! Goddamn insomnia’s making my entire body break!
“Fail for me, but fail flamboyantly. Don’t fail the way we’re doing in Chelsea,...”
– Jerry Saltz, to curators and artists at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis (via jenlindblad)
wonderful! my thoughts exactly!
Watchworldcitizenshe:
Totem Pole to be finished in 4 days.
This is Baguio’s oldest tree, dating as old as 224 years and is now being carved in the image of a mother by 8 Ifugaos to give it a new life. To serve as a reminder to the people what a tree can provide to our existence, to never forget that before we happened, she has been around serving the earth we live in, down from our ancestors to the...
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To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion. →
Happiness comes from the intersection of what you love, what you’re good at, and what the world needs. We’ve been told time and again to keep finding the first. Our schools helped developed the second. It’s time we put more thought on the third.
Books, Tea, Antigua & Getting Old →
Adventures. →
Anonymous asked: You seem interesting. I'm going to stalk your blog now.
21 Reasons Why The English Language Sucks →
teachingliteracy:
creatingaquietmind:
1. The bandage was wound around the wound. 2. The farm was used to produce produce. 3. The dump was so full it had to refuse more refuse. 4. We must polish the Polish furniture. 5. He could lead if he would get the lead out. 6. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert. 7. Since there was no time like the present, he thought it was time...
Pinoy Tumblr.: Noemi Lagman has been found.... →
zyllahminogue:
January 10, 2012 11:10PM Noemi Lagman UPDATE: Noemi Lagman has been found and she is now safe. Our deepest gratitude to all of you who helped us. For the final time regarding this issue, I hope you can click once more your likes, comments, and share buttons….
Best news of the year so far. Love and light to the rest of those who, like this girl, disappeared and are yet...
“Closing the book, I find I have left my head
inside. It is dark in here, but...”
– William Stafford | “An Afternoon in the Stacks” (via evoketheforms)
THE POSTMODERN AFTERPARTY: Why I'm Angry. →
ianwithab:
Coming from immersion, all the troubles I have had over the past few months seem inconsequential compared to the magnitude of the problems that beset this country. Returning to Katipunan everything passes by in an undefined blur, neat, fake, plastic. I remember Sitio Sapa, Nay…
Yes, I know what you mean. Goodness, thank god for people like this.
“If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it...”
– Henry Miller
“The sensible are never free.”
– Norman Mailer
“We must believe that the mountain exists; yet it must remain elusive, yielding...”
– Belsen C. Lane, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes
“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned...”
– James Hilton, Lost Horizon
“Poetry, the soul of poems, does not reside or rest in them. It goes. We follow.”
– Donald Revell (via mythologyofblue)
“We will always be surprising a hunger in ourselves to be more serious, but also...”
– Philip Larkin
“Poetry is that which arrives at the intellect by way of the heart.”
– R.S. Thomas
“Boswell: Sir, what is poetry?
Johnson: Why Sir, it is much easier to say what...”
– Poets on Poetry.
“One should only read books which bite and sting one. If the book we are reading...”
– Franz Kafka
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“And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened...”
– from “Why we travel” by Pico Iyer (probably my favorite travel essay of all time)
I’m not sure about the best love affair (I don’t want to jinx it), but I’d like to think that my boyfriend and I started the year right by planning another trip. :)
I certainly hope I’m the boyfriend...
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“Do not depend on the hope of results. … you may have to face the fact that your...”
– Thomas Merton in a letter to Jim Forest dated February 21, 1966, reproduced in The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters by Thomas Merton. Thank you The Beauty We Love. (via crashinglybeautiful)
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