I am a brown skinned female, my background is mixed. Single mother of one child. Self employed. College student. I am not a big fan of math, but I am a big fan of art, writing, music, dance, and spirituality.
Things I like: Getting to know people who are interesting and intelligent, and interested in getting to know me. I like a lot of things, too much to type here.
Things I dislike: Math, IQ tests, Ignorance, Whiners, Attention Whoring for piteous purposes, Low Self Esteem, closed minds, judgmental people.
Posts tagged books
Renowned children’s book author MAURICE SENDAK, telling us how he really feels, on The Colbert Report. (via inothernews)
Well said, Sir, well said.
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#YOU OTHER READERS CAN’T DENY #WHEN A STORY WALKS IN WITH AN AWESOME BASE AND A GREAT PLOT IN YOUR FACE YOU GET SPRUNG
These exist?!
I forgot about this! It’s been sitting in my amazon wishlist for months. I need to go buy it already.
You can find it right here. : )
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“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me — it still sometimes happens — and ask me if Carl changed at the end & converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again.
Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don’t ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting. Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous - not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance… That pure chance could be so generous and so kind… That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time… That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me and it’s much more meaningful…
The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday. I don’t think I’ll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful.”
Ann Druyan, about her husband Carl Sagan
now THAT is a fucking love story
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House Made Entirely Out of Books
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller website
First photo credit: Andy Keate
This is a house made entirely of antique books, mostly English literature published in the United Kingdom. Spines out, pages in, the work is a library turned in on itself, a space of infinite possibility where nothing may be read yet everything imagined.
The work has no windows and in the absence of external stimulation, we must imagine the worlds of the books, and hear the voice in our head that talks to us when we read. Books, the stories they tell about the opportunity they offer for escape into other worlds, are a key inspiration for Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller.
