If you’d been with me on my walk to the grocery store tonight you would have seen such fireworks as I saw… Green rays against the black sky and yellow anemones expanding outward and red bubbles drifting down to the ground…

I love you so much that the whole world is fireworks with you.

My memories seem to shine so perfectly brilliant against the colors of the present that sometimes I wonder if any of this is real. I want it all to last forever. Click for high-res photo

My memories seem to shine so perfectly brilliant against the colors of the present that sometimes I wonder if any of this is real. I want it all to last forever.

Mamihlapinatapai

Mamihlapinatapai is a word from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the “most succinct word”, and is considered one of the hardest words to translate. It describes “a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start.”

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EL ATENEO: A theatre turned into a library. Gorgeous, right?

EL ATENEO: A theatre turned into a library. Gorgeous, right?

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1940's slang.

Ducky shincracker- A good dancer

Active duty- Sexually promiscuous boy.

Share crop- Sexually promiscuous girl.

Greeby- Terrible

Drooly- A cute guy

An Able-Grable/Blackout girl/Dilly- A cute girl

Some of Hitler’s Work/Void coupon- An unattractive girl

Khaki wacky- Boy crazy

Doll dizzy- Girl crazy

Dead hoofer- A bad dancer

Gammin’- Showing off

Hen fruit- Eggs

Hi sugar, are you rationed?- Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend?

Motorized freckles- Insects

Snap your cap- To get angry

What’s buzzin’, cousin?- How’s it going?

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palindromes

1. Go hang a salami. I’m a lasagna hog.

2. Do geese see God?

3. Was it Eliot’s toilet I saw?

4. Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?

5. A nut for a jar of tuna.

6. Dennis and Edna sinned.

7. Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo

8. A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!

9. Borrow or rob?

10. Never odd or even.

11. Murder for a jar of red rum.

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When we find ourselves believing that killing a man makes us more of a man, but loving a man makes us less of a man: it’s probably the time to reexamine our criteria for manhood.
Jay Smooth
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start loving right now.

start loving right now.

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Midwestern sunsets, like light through tangled hair. (N, you make me look forward to this) Click for high-res photo

Midwestern sunsets, like light through tangled hair.

(N, you make me look forward to this)

The abortion caveat to comprehensive health care reform

so we passed a healthcare bill. which is great. i still dont understand WHY this has been such a struggle, but that is neither here nor there.

the fact is that the bill passed with the stupak amendment which i believe NARAL can explain better than i (although i have emphasized the crucial element):

“The Stupak-Pitts amendment makes it virtually impossible for private insurance companies that participate in the new system to offer abortion coverage to women. This would have the effect of denying women the right to use their own personal private funds to purchase an insurance plan with abortion coverage in the new health system — a radical departure from the status quo. Presently, more than 85 percent of private-insurance plans cover abortion services.”

so now its up to you as voters to contact your representatives about this and insure that our right to STAYING ALIVE and STAYING HEALTHY and thus CONTRIBUTING to society isn’t given to us with caveats like those stated above.

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A public appeal: Making US history with health care reform

This evening, at 11:15 p.m., the House of Representatives voted to pass their health insurance reform bill. Despite countless attempts over nearly a century, no chamber of Congress has ever before passed comprehensive health reform. This is history.

So this is a time to celebrate — but not to rest. Those who voted for reform deserve our thanks, and the next phase of this fight has already begun.

The final Senate bill hasn’t even been released yet, but insurance companies are already pressing hard for a filibuster to bury it. OFA has built a massive neighborhood-by-neighborhood operation to bring people’s voices to Congress, and today we saw the results. But the coming days will put our efforts to the ultimate test. Winning the fight for health care reform will require each of us to give everything we can, starting right now.

Can you donate $25 (or whatever you can afford) to help mount a fight against the insurance lobbies, so we can pass the kind of final bill America really needs?

This looks suspiciously like a lab slide of some sort, but the colors are magnificent. The natural world in macro is full of delightful surprises.

This looks suspiciously like a lab slide of some sort, but the colors are magnificent. The natural world in macro is full of delightful surprises.

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That’s why it’s important to include the “I” — because I want you to know that you’re the center of my universe.

That’s why it’s important to include the “I” — because I want you to know that you’re the center of my universe.

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Now, I’m not into cats, exactly, but when I saw this picture today, I just had to laugh. You can, too. :-)

Now, I’m not into cats, exactly, but when I saw this picture today, I just had to laugh.

You can, too. :-)

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If there are 1,000 dead they will be good deaths.
Rafael Pandam, a leader of the Shuar people, who put up barbed-wire roadblocks on highway bridges in Ecuador’s southeastern jungles to protest legislation that would allow mines on Indian lands without their prior consent, and put water under state control. On Sept. 30, an Indian schoolteacher was killed in a battle with riot police. A week after the killing, President Rafael Correa received about 100 Indian leaders at the presidential palace and agreed to reconsider the laws. Correa had earlier called the Indians “infantile” for their insistence on being consulted over mining concessions. But he didn’t need to be reminded that natives — a third of the population — have become an indispensible constituent and helped topple an Ecuadorean government in 2000. The Associated Press writes that all over Latin America, and especially in the Andes, a political awakening is emboldening Indians who have lived mostly as second-class citizens since the Spanish conquest. In Ecuador, the Shuar are blocking highways to defend their hunting grounds. In Chile, the Mapuche are occupying ranches to pressure for land, schools and clinics. In Bolivia, a new constitution gives the country’s 36 indigenous peoples the right to self-rule. In Peru, south of the Shuar’s lands, the government has divided more than 70 percent of the Amazon into oil exploration blocks and has begun selling concessions. Fearing contamination of their hunting and fishing grounds, Indians last year began mounting sporadic road and river blockades. As nations in the region embark on an unprecedented resource hunt, they are moving in on land that Indians consider their own — and whose pristine character is key to their survival. “The Indian movement has arisen because the government doesn’t respect our territories, our resources, our Amazon,” says Romulo Acachu, president of the Shuar people, flanked by warriors carrying wooden spears and with black war paint smeared on their faces. Indians make up one in 10 of Latin America’s half-billion inhabitants. In some parts of the Andes and Guatemala, they are far more numerous.