January 2012
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January: Fought through the snow, ice, slush, and people of New York. Mostly to find a place to park, but not entirely. Had a small crisis of the soul and banged my head against the wall. Started my Zen practice as something serious as result. Myself as well. We decided to move to Richmond, after Audra interviewed and accepted. We moved her down.
February: Took the train back up to New York....
December 2011
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arrrghhhkieran asked: isn't that the book 127 hours is based on?
Ron Paul is "surging" in Iowa, despite his past...
mohandasgandhi:
Enjoy your second term, Sir.
“For the sake of one line of poetry, one must see many cities, people, and...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (via thetumbleweedchronicles)
Latkes are fried. Frying needs oil, preferably, in this case, olive. To make enough latkes for a big dinner requires a lot of frying. Here, it took two and a half hours of cooking and frying.
When there is frying in a pan, there is frying in the air. The oil then hangs in the air. The miracle of the oil is that it lasted for eight days, not three, but that was because of ventilation issues. The...
When an adult took standardized tests forced on... →
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rapisoffensive:
This was written by Marion Brady, veteran teacher, administrator, curriculum designer and author.
By Marion Brady
A longtime friend on the school board of one of the largest school systems in America did something that few public servants are willing to do. He took versions of his state’s high-stakes standardized math and reading tests for 10th graders, and...
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Everyone brings something for the holidays.
I usually don’t. Even with my family, in New York. Except for chairs. Wine, too. Things that go with playing “Host”. (This doesn’t even get into my own food issues, of not eating, especially around the holidays, and these are Jewish holidays I am speaking of. But this is a whole separate thing).
For Christmas, at...
I Google image searched "Stalin was a big silly"...
mohandasgandhi:
mohandasgandhi:
Explain.
I’m still waiting for an explanation….
I know why House is there, but Stalin?
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“As soon as a child is born, he or she should be issued a dog and a banjo.”
– Charlie Brown (via musingsfromgamblersrock)
"... It's an Illusion!!!"
So that belly thing that was totally just that I was only hungry?
Nope.
The ER doctor is thinking ‘stomach ulcer’. I have a strong antacid and a stronger painkiller.
So, right now, my stomach hurts much much much less (a 3 out of 10 on the frowny face scale, which is progress from last night’s 7 or 8) and dang this is good pain meds.
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mohandasgandhi:
I wonder if people understand that the overwhelming majority of Arab-Americans are Christian (not Muslim) and that only about a quarter of American Muslims are actually Arabs.
It does not appear soooo….
When I was working on an excavation in Israel, I had some free time. So, me and another Brooklynite went to the North, as it is called there. We had an adventure getting to...
"That wasn't a trick, Michael..."
I thought I was sick. I thought I was getting the same stomach big that one of Audra’s kids gave her.
Nausea and a headache and a twisty knotted stomach.
It turns out I haven’t eaten anything in a very long time and was just stupid hungry.
It is called stupid hungry because this wasn’t the first this happened and I doubt it’ll be the last
Download 'A History of Lost Things' here. →
inherwar:
napoleoncomplex:
noun. 1. A zine charting the history of all things lost. 2. Complied by the Lost Souls: Anjelica, Basil, Elina, Elly, Rachel, Sarah & Vera
thank you
“This basic extension of empathy is one of the great barriers in understanding...”
– A Muscular Empathy - Ta-Nehisi Coates - National - The Atlantic (via guerrillamamamedicine)
this is why Ta-Nehisi Coates is amazing. Just read these two sentences over. Read them out loud. Taste them.
I do not mean a soft, flattering, hand-holding empathy. I mean a muscular empathy rooted in...
It is rare that I wake and recall anything about anything that happened in my dreams. It is so rare that I read into the events themselves and, moreso, the slivers of imagination that come through into the waking world.
Twice this week, I’ve woken up and remembered what I dreamt about. What and who and where are still so vivid.
I’m sitting in the car, still a half-hour early for...
Reblog if you think YOU should be the Doctor's...
Hoping for a Blue Box
Up to date, for posterity
Shilah has nothing wrong with her, save her itchiness has returned. Her ER visit was probably a minor thing. Her heart murmur is from useless and harmless connective tissue in her heart that makes the sound of a murmur but isn’t really trouble.
I’ve had nothing but weird nightmares for nights now, and I wake up several times throughout the night. It is not fun.
jessintheface:
I am watching a 3-year-old operate an iPhone with zero assistance.
whatwhatwhat?
My wife runs a Pre-K class for kids with autism. 3 & 4 year-olds who are learning and being taught some of the basic fundamentals of communication. She has to hide away her iPhone and take out the County-donated iPad-as-teaching tool only at certain times, because most of them know how to go...
ER Cat Trip
The sweet near-blind calico, Shilah, is at the cat-doctor. She chewed “on something stupid” (the vet’s words) and lacerated a tube that connects to her salivary glands, meaning she can’t stop drooling because there is no way for her to stop drooling.
We saw her before we left. She is miserable and was shivering, which is what she does when scared (that or attack it).
...
Things I Am Not Allowed To Make In Our Kitchen,...
Bananas Foster
House-warming
We are having a house warming party. Right now, technically. Technically, it started at 5.
Food, drinks, and wine are out. Cats are in the spare bedroom. Guests are coming now, including my parents.
The good news is that the wine is out.
Cats Are People Too!: An adorable little girl came... →
jessintheface:
An adorable little girl came into my work with her new adoptive mom today. She was fascinated with our bird and got close enough to put her mouth on the cage. When the mom saw this happening, she pulled her away quickly and said “you know you can’t do that, honey, we just got out of the hospital,…
There is no limit to love. None. Skyward and spaceward.
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