January 2012
“Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers...”
– Rumi (via sircle)
rumi is just on fire sometimes.
“Here’s the truth: friendships between women are often the deepest and most...”
– Transformation and Transcendence: The Power of Female Friendship
“There are years that ask questions, and there are years that answer.”
– Zora Neale Hurston
(via belongingness)
kickstarter for "the liberation," a documentary... →
“DC Central Kitchen, two blocks from the US Capitol building, and in the basement of one of the largest shelters in America, is a revolutionary culinary training program that actively goes out searching for the people that need their help the most. People who have hit rock bottom, and are truly ready to turn their lives around. Over 14 weeks, DC Central Kitchen teaches them how to get...
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“In the year that I’ve been here, I’ve come to understand that food,...”
– “A Southern-Fried Education”: Bon Appetit
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“The United States began pondering the possibility of cat spies during the Cold...”
– Metro history: A D.C. taxicab killed America’s premier CIA-trained cat spy
CAT SPIES.
“Southern food is a celebration of the people within the community, using the...”
– i have thoughts about paula deen and sexism and class and promulgating an irresponsible lifestyle, but this piece by hugh acheson furthers the discussion we should really be having.
Stop Bashing Paula Deen | Chow.com →
magdalina:
This article mirrors my thoughts on the Paula Deen & butter issue and the (newer) Paula Deen & diabetes issue, the former of which I wrote about previously (in a decidedly less eloquent fashion) here. I think there are some very obvious and shameful class and gender bias issues in the constant berating of Deen and her methods, and so I suppose it is my station as a woman from...
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
(via belongingness)
help my friend natalie rebuild her classroom! →
someone set fire to it, and while her school’s insurance will pay to rebuild, she lost six years worth of teaching materials. new yorkers, any donations of desks, filing cabinets, maps, etc., are welcome, and you can also donate via paypal.
“The mysterious thing you look for your whole life will eventually eat you alive.”
– Laurie Anderson on Moby-Dick (via austinkleon)
“What Cezanne did with apples, Picasso with guitars, Leger with machines,...”
– Paul Rand (via raindog)
“8. Stop Using Your Mom as an Example of a Stupid Person
How many times have...”
– 10 New Year’s resolutions for designers
““Close to 50 percent of the young people we surveyed thought Rihanna was...”
– In Chris Brown’s Big Year, Tough Questions On Abuse
for some reason the torrent of internet outrage over uga blowing yet another game in the second half coinciding with me hearing this piece on NPR has put some things in perspective.