Bornfamous

You may say I’m a dreamer, But I’m not the only one, I hope someday you’ll join us, And the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
[via mary beth]

Back in hippie days, there was a charming custom called the ‘rent party’, borrowed from Harlem years earlier. If you couldn’t pay your rent, you’d just invite everyone you knew [and a lot of people you didn't know] to a party at your place, and charge them a few bucks to enter.
Of course, you’d offer [...]

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
- James Baldwin

“Chicken and an egg lying on a bed, the chicken draws on a cigarette before saying ‘Well, I guess that answers that question.’”
Thanks, D, I needed that. [the laugh, i mean!]

yoga lady freaks out

any unemployed reporters out there?: Homeland Security & Defense Reporter
“Immediate opportunity: The Aviation Week Group of the McGraw-Hill Companies seeks an outstanding reporter for Homeland Security & Defense, a weekly global print and electronic newsletter launching soon in Washington, DC. Ideal candidates are enterprise-oriented reporters with at least five years daily newspaper experience. Knowledge of [...]

Welcome, blogdex visitors, but I have bad news for you. They made a mistake. All three of the link sources that got me listed were from my own site! What a silly goof, huh? I told blogdex about it, so it should be fixed soon.
Meanwhile, you’re welcome kick off your shoes and make yourself [...]

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorothea Brande

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
- Goethe

It was just the flu, but what a flu! I now have a clear understanding of the color ‘bilious yellow’. Still weak and ache-y, so I won’t write more now, except to share a new button for random surfing: You can learn more about it, and get yours, here: Wander-lust
Okay, time to crawl back [...]

I’m sick.

Time
“You are how long it takes to get
from here to there.
You are the beginning and end,
the then, now, and forever.
You are the reason the words
now, then, forever, fast, slow, never,
ever, dawn, and so on and so on exist.
You are the beginning and end of yourself,
yet you have no beginning or [...]

In the midst of winter, I suddenly discovered
there was in me
an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
- Lin Yutang

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
- Anne Lamott