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June 2013

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Jun 12, 20130 notes
#music

May 2013

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May 14, 20130 notes
#bowtie
May 01, 20138 notes
#astronomy

April 2013

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March 2013

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“The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.” —George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
Mar 29, 20130 notes

January 2013

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The Paradoxical Commandments

By Dr. Kent M. Keith

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway. 

Jan 10, 20131 note
#advice #love #lifestrategy

December 2012

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Appeasing the Hostage Takers

When visiting friends, I am notorious for leaving my clothes behind.  Despite my stubborn determination to stop doing this, it happened again last weekend when I left my coat behind at a vacation house.  After a day or two, I was contacted by the shadowy group that was holding my coat hostage.  An anonymous e-mail arrived with a brief message:

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And then, later that day:

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Interesting… Then:

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I had no choice but to comply with this totally unreasonable request.  Chris, a nice waiter at Melting Pot helped me out.  (He preferred the arms-under hugging position.)

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I hoped that this would appease the hostage takers.

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Excellent!  I can practically feel the angel-soft microsuede of my beloved coat back in my arms.

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Hug a MAILBOX?  How could I possibly comply?  I don’t have a mailbox!  In a panic, I ran through the streets of Concord, MA desperately searching for help.  Thank the sweet lord, I came upon a post office where some very nice women took my picture:

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You’ll notice that I’m wearing my backup coat in this picture.

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These bastards aren’t easy to please…

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YES!  The Exchange would be imminent.  That same night, I was blindfolded and led to a dark room where I handed over a package of Hershey’s Hugs.  At long last, I got my beloved brown coat back, completely unharmed.  I’ll never again leave an article of clothing behind!

Dec 22, 20121 note

July 2012

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“Expect much of yourself and little of others” —
Jul 30, 20121 note
#advice #fortune

May 2012

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May 18, 20122 notes
#ancestry #genealogy #portrait #veteran #salute #uniform #elderly

February 2012

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William Fitzsimmons → cinemagr.am


(Taken with http://cinemagr.am)

Feb 17, 20120 notes
#cinemagraph #gif

December 2011

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Dec 25, 20110 notes

November 2011

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“Why do we struggle to breathe a more righteous breath, when we all end up in the same place?” —Love
Nov 14, 20115 notes

October 2011

3 posts

Oct 21, 20111,491 notes
The Stars Inside Us

Our bodies are made of material that was forged in the cores of stars.

Our universe was initially composed almost entirely of Hydrogen and Helium, the lightest elements.  The only way to really form the heavier elements that are required for life (Carbon, Oxygen, Iron, etc) is through stars formation and subsequent explosive nucleosynthesis.  Huge clouds of hydrogen and helium coalesce over millions of years to eventually form stars.  In the cores of those stars, there’s enough heat and pressure that nuclear fusion fuses lighter elements into heavier elements.  Elements heavier than iron are created when the cores of stars reach supercritical mass and explode in supernovae.

Many think that much of the material on earth and in our bodies was created over the course of at least three “generations” of stars forming, exploding, and eventually forming again - perhaps as many as a dozen generations.

It took almost 10 billion years for the universe to create the materials that make life possible on Earth.  It took trillions of births and deaths over the last 3.5 billion years for humans to evolve from those raw materials.

There is an immense weight of history behind every cell in your body. Don’t take them for granted.

Oct 12, 20117 notes
#cosmology #big #life
Tony Bacigalupo's Blog: Let's Help Amit Defeat Leukemia! → tonybgoode.tumblr.com

tonybgoode:

Yesterday, we lost one of the great luminaries of our time to cancer.

Today, we have an opportunity to help others in their fight. In particular, one of the most special people I know: Amit Gupta.

Amit is the founder of the endlessly wonderful DIY photography site Photojojo. He’s…

Oct 06, 201132 notes
#crossposted #happymonster #tumblrize #4amit #amitgupta #leukemia

September 2011

1 post

“You have to make the right choice. As long as you don’t choose, everything remains possible.” — Mr. Nobody
Sep 07, 201110 notes
#possibilities #choice #will

July 2011

2 posts

Life's 10 Essentials → mnmlist.com

Jul 29, 20110 notes
#minimalism #lifestrategy
Play
Jul 18, 20111 note
#hiking #adventure
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