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Satomi Kawakita makes beautiful, amazing, delicate jewelry. Born and raised in Japan, she studied wood, metal, clay, and textile arts in Kyoto; then worked as a glass-blower. Later, she moved to the U.S. to study jewelry making in New York City. She makes necklaces and earrings, but her rings are by far my favorites. Each ring looks so beautifully and individually crafted. Capture the Castle

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Love these photos of Bologna, then and now, by Giuseppe Savini. Via Floddertje.

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One of the best essays on poverty and class I've read in a long time. From Good: I have learned something about pity in my most recent year of poverty: Very few people on all rungs of our society are equipped to assist others who need it without thinking lesser of them, and in some cases, vilifying them.And from her comments:  I would hope that my choice to get an MFA wouldn't make you think

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One of my favorite poets, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1996 (and it paralyzed her, according to her New York Times obituary-- she couldn't write another poem for "a few years". I'd love her just for this, if not for her beautiful, ironic poetic voice), passed away today. More about Ms. Szymborska here and here. 'Could have' It could have happened. It had to happen. It happened earlier.

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It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about? - Henry David Thoreau Source: lylaandblu.com via LB on Pinterest Ginger Rogers rehearsing with Hermes Pan.

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found via Twitter: cacoethes Pronunciation: /ˌkakəʊˈiːθiːz/noun [in singular] rare an urge to do something inadvisable. Origin: mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek kakoēthes 'ill-disposed', from kakos 'bad' + ēthos 'disposition Source: howtobearetronaut.com via Petrus Paulus on Pinterest

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Source: catherinewillis.tumblr.com via LB on Pinterest No, this isn't about the movie (haven't seen it). Tintin was one of my favorite childhood book series; I don't know how I stumbled on it. Probably randomly picked one up at the Bookmobile (does anyone else remember Bookmobiles? they saved my life) and was instantly hooked. Herge absolutely influenced my drawing style and made me want to

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via Chemin Faisant (fabulous tumblr):  “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.” - Ludwig Wittgenstein 

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Gorgeous, soaring, beautiful. With Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Rufus and Martha Wainwright, and Bruce Cockburn. Rufus Wainwright's voice is so perfect: and another old McGarrigle song, from the album "French Record":

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Looking forward to a cozy night in with my kids. I am making Mark Bittman's Cassoulet with Lots of Vegetables, to serve with a big salad, loaf of crusty multigrain bread, and a bottle of Malbec.  For dessert, Pear Gingerbread with whipped cream. Later, we'll make popcorn, light a big fire in the fireplace and watch some Marx Brothers and Errol Flynn movies. Good times! The Pear Gingerbread is a

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Lovely interview. "You have to take the dive. And you do not know what the results will be." (via boingboing.)

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Source: modernhepburn.tumblr.com via LB on Pinterest (The Avett Brothers)

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Enjoy! Hope your holidays are good ones.

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Brian Cox teaches the Hamlet soliloquy to a toddler. Via Even Cleveland.

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Gorgeous voice. You can learn more about Savina Yannatou here, and here.

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"Yet the moth has trim, and feistiness, and not a drop of self pity. Not in this world." — Mary Oliver, from “Flare” (via a la recherche) To do list by Johnny Cash: Source: listsofnote.com via LB on Pinterest What a gorgeous cake! Source: magpiescake.com via LB on Pinterest Beautiful tiny anatomical sculptures by Anne Ricketts: Source: coolhunting.com via LB on Pinterest

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Philip Glass, Trilogy Sonata, Act III, Conclusion from Satyagraha:

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Of course they do. Via swissmiss.

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aka "The Book Surgeon". More marvelous book sculpture. from My Modern Met: "My work is a collaboration with the existing material and its past creators and the completed pieces expose new relationships of the book’s internal elements exactly where they have been since their original conception," he says.Read a brief interview with Brian Dettmer here. Link to Brian Dettmer's website here.

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Well, you know me, I'm not immune to pretty things! First up: these mittens, found via Pennyweight. Next, some French Picardie Tumblers, from Alder & Co.  Hedgehog boxed note cards from B Designs Letterpress. How cute is that? (I don't care if the post office is cutting their service!) Any or all of these Color Block Scarves from Martha McQuade's Scarfshop. Source: eloisegrey.com via LB on

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"Your style is a function of your limitations, more so than a function of your skills" - Johnny Cash

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The Library Phantom returns. An anonymous sculptor in Edinburgh leaves incredibly detailed, beautiful sculptures made of paper/books/words hidden in various libraries and museums as gifts. I can't tell you how much I love this.  a complex scene in a paper cinema; punters arrayed on seats watching men and horses coming alive from the screen and charging outwards. The tag? For @filmhouse - A

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Done between 1953 and 1960. Found via Ancient Industries. I think this one's my favorite so far, but you find a whole bunch more here.

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A simple and brief essay on ways to choose happiness: When we default to anger or irritability, we perpetuate the grasp of those destructive sensations in our lives. Don’t get me wrong, feeling the entire cycle of emotions is an essential part of being complete human beings, but getting stuck in the ones that drag us down is a problem. This goes for sadness as well. When something painful

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Source: chagalov.tumblr.com via Alison on Pinterest Paul Cézanne, April 13 1906 -by Gertrude Osthaus

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I can't tell if this is satire or reality (I suspect the latter). Found via the SelfStyldSiren's Twitter feed and her response is: @jameshynes I have no words for how much I love that. S.J. Perelman would have read it, run out and got blind drunk.Muffie Potter Aston-- What I Wore. Here's a picture of S.J. Perelman, just because.

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I've been AWOL lately, but my little group show opened last weekend, and soon we are off to Chicago for a family Thanksgiving. I'll be back... (photo via DK Travel)

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This article and the accompanying photos are making the rounds of the internets this week: Such lovely people, those foreclosure lawyers. Wonder what the party theme will be this year? And the CEO of Bank of America is incensed that regular people are ticked off at his company. Poor thing. An excellent comment from Daily Kos member mmacdDE (extra points for the Princess Bride reference): I

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Richard Brautigan: via Collection of and Even Cleveland.

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New edition of Food Rules, illustrated by Maira Kalman! yay! Right brain/Left brain: Ian McGilchrist on The Divided Brain (via Chemin Faisant) Listen up, stud puppets! Judy Tenuta at her best, in 1987, with absolutely perfect timing and delivery: (HBO special, "Women of the Night")

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Yes, it's a happy Monday, because Tom Waits has a new album out (his first in 7 years). I just listened to it at NPR's First Listen and it's a doozy. And the Decemberists have a new song, premiered here. Working on pieces for a group show next month... 

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Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance  1. If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn’t mean you would be a midget if you were bald. 2. “Fortune” is a word for having a lot of money and for having a lot of

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Thought I'd take a break from politics for a bit and so it's time to lighten up. This ring from Jeanine Payer is lovely. The quote is from Walt Whitman: "The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.": Source: jeaninepayer.com via LB on Pinterest Love this marbelized scarf from Ilana Kohn: Source: shopprettymommy.myshopify.com via LB on Pinterest A perfectly simple bracelet from

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Interesting. Read it here.

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"You can't outrun the history train." One of my favorite Paul Simon songs, just felt like posting it today.

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A terrific essay by Steve Almond at The Rumpus. Read it here, sweet peas.

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From the blog Poemas del rio Wang, these beautiful and haunting photographs taken in Japan during WWII. A collector found a camera with the film still in it, had it developed and found these. They have been hidden away for over 65 years and were never seen by the subjects. (Found via For Me, For You) Here is the original post, in Russian.

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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2011. A nice article about him here: The Beauty of Stillness. And a poem: After a Death   by Tomas Tranströmer translated by Robert Bly Once there was a shock that left behind a long, shimmering comet tail. It keeps us inside. It makes the TV

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  photo from @Vanadia at twitter I went to the march yesterday, it was good. I think I've been to too many marches to become really exhilarated at the prospect of changing things, but glad to be there to show my support. No, I didn't take any pictures (shame!shame! bad Blogger!)-- but everyone else and their aunt Sally was taking them so I figured there'd be plenty floating around. This one (

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... and a few random pretties: Source: satomikawakita.com via mii on Pinterest Source: visionfield.blogspot.com via LB on Pinterest Photo by Luke Stephenson. Source: bonadrag.com via LB on Pinterest  Earrings by Lila Rice.   Source: tumblr.com via LB on Pinterest Ceramics by Norikazu Oe.

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Went to a dinner last night to honor and say farewell to a dear friend who is moving to Seattle. Our conversation ranged from Occupy Wall Street to Lucretius to recipes using kale. Our lovely host served a wonderful meal followed by an extraordinary orange muscat dessert wine. This talented artist also recently published a memoir titled What Doncha Know? About Henry Miller. It sounds fascinating

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One of my favorite singers (Lotte Lenya) singing one of my favorite songwriters (Kurt Weill). (found via Chemin faisant)

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The Laughing Hearts "your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness. be on the watch. the gods will offer you chances. know them. take them. you can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light

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"We may have to wait for years - we may have to wait for ever, if we wait until life is safe." HG Wells (link) Source: tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com via LB on Pinterest (photo by Pat Kavanagh)

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❧There’s nothing metaphorical about “gut feelings,” for what happens in the gut really does influence what we feel: link ❧New Daniel Pinkwater novel being serialized online: link (via boingboing) ❧Monoculture and the stories that shape us: link ❧Epic tea house server (16 cups of tea at one time!): link (via TYWKIWIDBI) Enjoy your weekend! (image via workman's tumblr)

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.-- Winston Churchill. Source: booooooom.com via LB on Pinterest

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found via Neil Gaiman. (Note for the impatient: They don't start dancing until over a minute into the scene. It's worth the wait.)

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via Good.

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The Moka pot, developed during the Depression by Alfonso Bialetti (from an invention by Luigi De Ponti) so Italians could save money and make their espresso at home. Classic. And I've posted this before, but here's an excellent way to make good stovetop espresso: Stumptown Brewing guide. Here's the version I'd get if I had the extra cash: The Alessi 9090, via Remodelista The Vespa scooter,

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1.5 million honey bees at O'Hare Airport! More honey bees: the dance and the consensus Plus, honey bees might have emotions 90% of US net users don't know from ctrl-F (hey, me either, until one my kids casually mentioned it) How kindness built civilization. Tarkovsky's Polaroids. "Tarkovsky thought a lot about the “flight” of time and wanted to do only one thing: to stop it – even if

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"I have my dead and I have let them go and been surprised, to see them so consoled, so soon at home in death, just right this way, so unlike what we hear. Only you, you come back; you brush against me, you move about, you want to knock into things, to make them sound of you and tell me you’re here. Oh don’t take away what I’m slowly learning. For I’m right; you’re mistaken if, looking back, you

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My life in fantasy: Reality: (via Sister Wolf)

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New to me. Gorgeous music. This is "Such Great Heights". (found via Lyla&Blu's Tumblr)

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Nice quote: "We’re creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers something already existent, something which belongs to the whole world, and which, if he is an artist, he is compelled to give back to the world." — Henry Miller (via johnmyersart) Listening to this:

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Love this. Caro Emerald, found via Vineet Kaur tumblr: Also: Source: browndresswithwhitedots.tumblr.com via LB on Pinterest Source: browndresswithwhitedots.tumblr.com via LB on Pinterest

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In which I reveal my true feelings about Monopoly. “Today, though, I want to talk about the pop-cultural root of all evil and aggression, which is not Scattergories, not Grand Theft Auto, not the music of The Screwed Up Click. It is the insidious, grudge-fueling, wrath-provoking waste of four hours that is the Parker Brothers classic Monopoly. The evil is right there in the title! Would you

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via Une Femme:

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Everything is temporary, via to say it. Calvin and Hobbes street art! Source: totokaelo.com via LB on Pinterest Kind of obsessed with these boots.  Source: tinctory.bigcartel.com via LB on Pinterest Beautiful handmade jewelry-things from tinctory. Also:Doctors mistake street-slang usage for thought-disordered speech: "Diagnotic dilemma, innit bruv" A paradoxical theory of change. (

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I'm listening to a lot of Andrew Bird these days. Bonus: hilarious blog post on Mr. Bird from Mister Pretation.

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"There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea." Bernard-Paul Heroux (via The School of Life on twitter) Source: tumblr.com via Kayla on Pinterest

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via TYWKIWDBI:

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Random things from here, there, and everywhere. Jascha Heifetz playing the violin (via Chemin faisant) And this is just so weird but I love it: Source: gotopublicschool.com via LB on Pinterest Source: muscavomitoria.tumblr.com via LB on PinterestThis is Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Éboli (1540-1592). She lost an eye in a mock fencing duel when she was 14, and she spent her last 13 years in

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Murdochs vow to launch a full investigation: “Someone has been running News Corp. and as God is my witness I am going to find out who,” thundered the senior Mr. Murdoch.  “I will use Seal Team Six if need be.” “Right now, we’re trying to figure out who is running the company by process of elimination,” he added.  “So far, the only two people we’ve eliminated are my son James and myself.”

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A few visuals for your Monday. Source: browndresswithwhitedots.tumblr.com via LB on Pinterest I want to be here. Right now. Source: tomboystyle.blogspot.com via LB on Pinterest Cute, no? Source: catherinewillis.tumblr.com via LB on Pinterest God, I love this. Jacket design for the U.S. first edition of Mikhail Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita”. Illustrator Mercer Mayer (1967).

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When you start working everybody is in your studio - the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas - all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave. — John Cage (via Chemin faisant) Source: thatkindofwoman.tumblr.com via LB on Pinterest

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Source: ii-ne-kore.blogspot.com via LB on Pinterest Have spent the better part of the week up on the roof of the house, pulling off moss and scraping out clogged gutters; cleaning screens and windows; sweeping off steps. Things that have been neglected the past couple of years. Lots more to do. Enjoying this on my iPod while I work:

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Turtles cause runway closing at JFK airport, start twitter account. The loudest animal on earth is loud because of its singing penis. No further comment needed. An especially clever Asian elephant named Neua Un figures out how to make her partner do all the work./Joshua Plotnik, University of Cambridge: Just because I like this: My man: Serling’s life story is certainly an interesting

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Leo Babauta: "Take your expectations, and throw them into the ocean."

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New York Times obituary here. I wrote about her previously.

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Joshua Klein on the intelligence of crows: link here.

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This is hilarious. Just go listen (it's short).

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Fatboy Slim - Weapon of choice (Christopher... by petit_ecureuil_fou via Zuzu.

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Two poems from Pamela Gillilan: Two Years When you died all the doors banged shut. After two years, inch by inch, they creep open. I can relish small encounters, encourage small flares of desire; begin to believe as you did things come right. I tell myself that you escaped the slow declension of old age leaving me to indulge this wintry flowering. But I know it's not like that at all. Four

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via Really, I'm not one to clutch at my pearls over politicians' private lives (I make an exception for the ones pushing "Family Values™"), but how can someone as media-savvy as Anthony Weiner be so stupid? Don't answer that question. Now I hope we can go back to talking about the really important stuff. Nah.

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Gillian Welch, "One Monkey Don't Stop the Show".

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as Cory Doctorow says: This old White Star Coffee ad seems to have come from a contrafactual Jazz Age in which Chairman Mao's graphic designer moved to America to work for a commercial illustration firm. (via boingboing)

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"To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing."  Raymond Williams (from Van Jones via twitter)  (image here)

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I would love to attend the whole series called The Practitioner's Parlour, but this class in particular.

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Embrace the failure. Milton Glaser. Milton Glaser – on the fear of failure. from Berghs' Exhibition '11 on Vimeo. (via Wit + Delight) And then, of course, there's Samuel Beckett: "Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better." (via Pinterest)

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My lovely internet pal Zuzu from  Everyday Beauty Blog has tagged me with this award. If you have any interest in gorgeous makeup and quality skin care, you need to check her out. Her reviews and photos are tops. Plus she is smart and funny (who wouldn't love someone who subtitles their blog "carpe cosmeticum"?). Thanks, Z! The rules for this tag are: Kiss the ring of the person who nominated

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‘Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.’  Simone Weil  (found via Gretchen Rubin at The School of Life)  (photo via Pinterest)

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I've been in a black hole of clearing out the garage this past month. I am not finished; in fact, I have a long way to go. A lot of the stuff belonged to, or was accumulated by, my late husband. I'm having to think about a lot of these things. Is there anything I should keep? If not, how do I get rid of it? Some of it I wonder, what is this, anyway? I'm not much of an accumulator, and I'm not

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I have loved this Japanese shop from afar for several years now. Gorgeous stuff, very minimalist and beautifully made, so old-fashioned that it looks modern. The clothes are pretty expensive and not available in the U.S. as far as I know. But I love the presentation and aesthetic of this shop. It's a delight just to browse the website and get visual inspiration. (Click on collection to see

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More about Pogo here.

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RIP, Phoebe Snow. This was my favorite song of hers.

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(via Boingboing)

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Still trying to spend less time online. For your Sunday Amusement while I go work in the yard: (via boingboing)

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(poster from music-philosophy)

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I am not going to apologize for the lack of blogging these days, since my posts would consist of more rants about right-wing politicians and their idiot followers. You should thank me. If you need to read something, read the brilliant rant by economist Joseph E Stiglitz,  here.

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‘Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.’ ~Bertrand Russell (quote via zenhabits)

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Am I the only one who feels this way most of the time? (via Cup of Jo)

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Listen here: Music from the Lost Provinces From The High Lonesome Sound (Smithsonian Folkways 1998). Found via nervous or not. Splish-splashing in the primordial ooze of American roots music.image of Roscoe Holcombe on the beach via google.

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via evencleveland: Suveyda from Ayhan Cebe on Vimeo. Süveyda Light and dark, noise and calm, beauty, decay, pain and hope--these are the shattering contrasts that propel our lives ahead in the boundless, throbbing river of existence. None of us knows what the next moment will bring, the raptures and terrifying discoveries born with every choice. And yet, in the alternation of day and night, in

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I don't read Daily Kos too often any more, but this comment in a diary about Wisconsin is too good not to pass on:   It is two issues (31+ / 0-)but people who should know better and still vote for Republicans should be held accountable.  I know plenty of people who fit DM's description to a tee. I want to scream (but instead choose to ridicule) all those people I know who realize the Dems are

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A day late for Fat Tuesday, my friends, but that's life. (A tip of the hat to Lisa for the link.)

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