January 2012
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“He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens—The main thing is not...”
– John Steinbeck
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“Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but...”
– G. K. Chesterton
December 2011
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“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
– Carl Sagan
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“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable....”
– Neil Gaiman, The Sandman.
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October 2011
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Thanks.
I have come to bury Jobs, not praise him. The gravity of his impact will come in the unborn generations in which his genius is silently woven within, through the credo he embedded onto the digital age; that desperate plea to Think Different that became the life force of Apple. His intense desire to change the world for the better more than once with a revolutionary product. His undying vision of...
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September 2011
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August 2011
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“Travelers, it is late.
Life’s sun is going to set.
During these brief...”
– Rumi
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Generation F*cked →
As the generational divide deepens, it makes sense for the older generations to stake their claim now, while they have the power of the state on their side. Aside from handing out more than 10,000 Asbos (Antisocial Behaviour Orders, a cross between a human parking ticket and the sort of condemned notice you sometimes see on the walls of derelict buildings), the petty misanthropy that bans...
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The Laughing Heart
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 darkness. be on the watch. the gods 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 there will be. your...
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July 2011
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Meditation at Lagunitas
All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking. The idea, for example, that each particular erases the luminous clarity of a general idea. That the clown- faced woodpecker probing the dead trunk of that black birch is, by his presence, some tragic falling off from a first world of undivided light. Or the notion that, because there is in this world no one...
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I miss you so much already. A part of me had been excised. My whole is not at all equal to the sum of our parts. Everything is duller. The lights of the city is faint almost to an impressionistic detail. Music is garbled at all frequencies and most things just remind me of you, and when they don’t, I would still think of you. Though when my soul wanders into the darkness, memories of you. Of...
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“A rare and beautiful sight. These two days happen to correspond with Memorial...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
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On Life and Work
A huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded. Here’s one example of the utter wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of: Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence. We...