Beautiful gallery of Chinese ethnic costume

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

A beautiful gallery of the 56 Chinese ethnic groups in costume.

Ethnic Blang

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Lots of greats gone

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

Listening to Carl’s show dedicated to Charley just now and got all moist-eyed about (of all things) this great old WZ song (Send Lawyers Guns and Money)

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It just is

Friday, August 21st, 2009

It’s been a really bad week at the FOJ. The worst sort of arbitrary bureaucratic decisions f&&king with people’s lives. Stunned like after a body blow. Tears. Crushing headaches and gut-aches. Talking begging waiting. Looks like a middle course will be found (I hope; I find out this morning). And true gratitude for someone usually weak as a kitten who spoke up for once on our behalf.
For all this, it’s things like this that can bring a refining. A clarity of goals and purpose. One chooses a perspective and determines what’s meaningless and what’s important enough to fight for. And a gratitude for the valued people in one’s life.

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Only in fugitive moments

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

“In solitude I used to wander about the garden, alternately collecting birds’ eggs and meditating on the flight of time. If I may judge by my own recollections, the important and formative impressions of childhood rise to consciousness only in fugitive moments in the midst of childish occupations, and are never mentioned to adults. I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for the formation of these apparently fugitive but really vital impressions.”

–Bertrand Russell, Autobiography

Thanks, Gretchen of The Happiness Project

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