"You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you’re not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other."
- Carl Sagan

Business as usual

Undaunted by a night of German air raids in which his store front was blasted, a shopkeeper opens up the morning after for "business as usual" in London.

From The Atlantic

What If Everyone Saw This Facebook Status?

What If Everyone Saw This Facebook Status?

 

 

1922 Girls’ Rifle Team, University of Maryland

From Uncertain Times

Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate - Kala Djula

From Justice League Animated

Bad Lands

Me, today.

 

Ideas are Bulletproof

Wov

“Hände” (1928) - Miklos Bandy

imagination brigade

Brought down to earth.

When Doris showed up at the Mood Party wearing a balloon dress (she claimed it was uplifting), Jake quickly went after her with a pin (he said he was a stickler for details).

From hot balloon blog

Miss This

Maxence Cyrin - Where Is My Mind (The Pixies Piano Cover)

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Feel I lead a charmed life after being spared the early snow that has buried the east coast. Treated to a light rain and upper 50 degree temps, the outside experience can be done sans coat, gloves and winter boots - for now. May all who have snow see it melt before the next winter dumpery.

Eric Rondepierre - the Moires collection

Found at Mossbone

James Rhodes - captured my soul with his playing.

Excessive Cuteness Alert!

"There are suspect places

I must live in my lantern"

— T. S. Eliot, from “Love Songs” in The Waste Land and Other Poems

Karen and the Bird

I live here when the desert freezes.