February 2012
9 posts
“When we belong to the world
we become what we are.”
– Anne Stevenson, from “Poem for a Daughter” (via the-final-sentence)
“Love is a verb.”
– Jason F. Wright, from The Seventeen Second Miracle (thanks, wesmokethatkushh)
Plays and Presidents
Tim: Did you pick a play?
Me: Yes! I picked one yesterday but I was so tired I forgot to tell you.
Tim: Good!
Me: Yea. It was the least awful one of the ones I read.
Tim: Hm. That’s pretty much how I pick my presidents.
Serbians Respond to In the Land of Blood and Honey →
genderacrossborders:
Though the film is arguably an extension of her global advocacy work, she is not interested in using it to make personal political statements. Rather, the film is the statement. Like all good political art, it is able to stand on its own as a representation of a larger truth — in this case, the realities of wartime sexual violence and abuse — and cause audiences to think...
“These days man knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via bookmania)
I’m going to use this on the people who keep telling us to but a house. I KNOW property values are low right now! That doesn’t mean we HAVE to buy!