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Carl Sagan Uncredited and Undated Photograph
“I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.
The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there’s little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides. Carl Sagan, ”In the Valley of the Shadow”, Parade Magazine 1996
Jeanloup Sieff, Harpers Bazaar August 1963
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Claire Salcedo - David
I was just messing around the other night, so I recorded this with the ukulele instead of the guitar.
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Wolf Parade- This Heart’s on Fire
How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.
— Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections (via psychotherapy) (via quote-book)
Crazy Monster justifies taking the afternoon off.
Eva’s swashbuckling beekeeper sisters. Because BEEKEEPING LADIES WITH SWORDS.
I made my own bees brush for this.
Mary Robinette Kowal challenges you to write a letter a day in February - Boing Boing →
1. In the month of February, mail at least one item through the post every day it runs. Write a postcard, a letter, send a picture, or a cutting from a newspaper, or a fabric swatch.
2. Write back to everyone who writes to you. This can count as one of your mailed items.
Feeling intimidated? It’s fewer words than NaNoWriMo and I know how many of you do that. Can you mail a letter a day?
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
Shoot me yr address if you’d like to trade postcards.
