Sometimes, it seems like everyone in the whole world has gotten cynical. Or maybe it's just me who has.
Either way, reading this actually made me cry:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article5439242.ece

And so I think everyone in the world should read it.
"Researchers at Stony Brook University in New York have shown that the ( Read more... )

Also, isn't it amazing how often the answer in life is to wait?

It's amazing how purified you feel after reading good writing. Feeling every word to be true, the exact right word for that place in that sentence. Like Adam somehow getting just the right names for all the animals. It's so soothing, when a writer can sweep you up and carry you away with them so unerringly that you don't need to fill in the ( Read more... )

What if all women walked like supermodels all the time? Like everywhere they went?

(you have to try picturing it....)

Okay, so:

If warriors used to eat their enemies to absorb their powers and make themselves stronger, what does it say about me, and about our culture in general, that our main protein source is chicken? How would I be different if I ate, say, bear and mountain lion on a regular basis instead?

( mostly for my own rememberings )

You either have your dreams, or you have the reason you don’t have your dreams.

You’re not a victim. You create your own universe around you with your thoughts and your expectations, everything is perception. Reality is malleable.

Appeal to the best in people.

Instead of defining myself as “good” based on what I don’t do, I want it to be because of what I do. I want to have an active standard to live up to, not a passive one; something based on presence rather than absence ( Read more... )

I have grownup feet.

By which I mean, I now have the feet of a grownup. The kind of feet I noticed my mom & aunts having when I was little. Strong, utilitarian feet, with toenails & veins.

Of course, they had toenails & veins before, and I don't suppose they've ever been anything but utilitarian (certainly not decorative), but ( Read more... )

( I've been told I get a trifle odd when I'm up too late... )