July 15, 2010

Song of the Day, July 15

And if we are the body,
how'd the pretty men get so ugly?
How'd he get all these spaces between each limb?
And if there is one thing bigger than my head,
that's the distance I've been mislead.

http://p.rhap.com/Tra.27927538

Photo by Parker Fitzgerald

June 17, 2010

Being bored is a precious thing

"Being bored is a precious thing, a state of mind we should pursue. Once boredom sets in, our minds begin to wander, looking for something exciting, something interesting to land on. And that's where creativity arises."

- Why I Returned My iPad, by Peter Bregman

http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2010/06/why-i-returned-my-ipad.html

June 16, 2010

death to the death penalty

June 16, 2010

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters.
- Kurt Vonnegut

June 16, 2010

OK Go - End Love

Always inspired by their videos.

June 16, 2010

Jesus is God’s ‘revelation’ in a decisive sense not because he makes a dimly apprehended God clear to us, but because he challenges and queries an unusually clear sense of God: not because he makes things plainer—on the ‘veil-lifting’ model of revelation—but because he makes things darker.
Rowan Williams