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Word

You are looking for the “right” word. For a paper, an article, a story, a blog post, a presentation – – you’re trying to express a intense moment, a feeling, an emotion. Words, sentences, paragraphs,...

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If I met the younger version of myself, we would…

Liz Danzico is the creative director for NPR. Here’s how she opens her post: I think a lot about what I would say to the younger version of myself if I met her again, if I met her through the still...

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Driving. The last mile.

I’ve been searching for a passage that I read weeks ago. I can see the font size, the paragraph, the white space, the light above and below the words. Strings that dangle in my consciousness. Yet,...

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I love Saturday Mornings!

Source: So Many Cute Animals. (Photo so much like Zeke, not Zeke!)

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We’re going with it. All of it.

The quote, paired with Meryl Streep photographs, was erroneously attributed to Streep and has been going viral on the internet. The quote was written by Portuguese self-help author/life coach José...

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Fire Painter

French Canadian artist Steve Spazuk is from Lery, Quebec. Here’s his bio from Spazuk.com: For the past 14 years, Spazuk has developed and perfected a unique technique that allows him to use the flame...

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Monday Gotta

You can change your clothes, but you gotta love your bones, baby. - Jessica Blankenship, How To Not Fail At Your New Years Resolution Notes: Bio: Jessica Blankenship. Quote Source: How To Not Fail At...

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There’s that split second moment

you know when someone asks you a general question like “how are you” or jokingly says something like “do you ever even sleep” and there’s that split-second moment where you consider actually telling...

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They bust you by being grateful for the day

The worst possible thing you can do when you’re down in the dumps, tweaking, vaporous with victimized self-righteousness, or bored, is to take a walk with dying friends. They will ruin everything for...

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Human. Roll it.

Source: themetapicture (Thank you Susan)  

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Let me get back to you on this

Who knows, maybe those two rogue leaders, Gandhi and Jesus, were right – a loving response changes the people who would beat the shit out of you, including yourself, of course. Their way, of the...

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War

You don’t know why you’re exhausted? You’re fighting a war inside your head every single day. If that’s not exhausting I don’t know what is. ~ My therapist Credits: Quote – Borderline-ings Playbook...

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Pangs of searching & groping, the tortures of spiritual crises and exhausting...

Was it a coincidence two days before Christmas? Maybe. Maybe not. In an excellent op-ed essay by David Brooks in yesterday’s morning paper and in “Calvary,” yesterday’s evening movie, the themes were...

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Guess.What.Day.It.Is?

Here’s Geico’s 2014 Hump Day commercial in case you missed it…for the last Hump Day of 2014. Notes: Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again

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Two Minute Personality Test

What’s the kindest thing you almost did? Is your fear of insomnia stronger than your fear of what awoke you? Are bonsai cruel? Do you love what you love, or just the feeling? Your earliest memories:...

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Sum, ergo cogito: cogito, ergo sum.

For the New Year—I still live, I still think; I must still live, for I must still think. Sum, ergo cogito: cogito, ergo sum. To-day everyone takes the liberty of expressing his wish and his favorite...

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Word, Please

Your body aches. You can feel yourself sighing all the way to your knees. Now tell me: what is the word for that. — shinji-moon, from A Physician’s Handbook Notes: Photography:maja via eikadan....

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There’s the purpose. Right there.

Q: There was a strong, negative reaction after you won your Oscar. In a recent interview for Elle U.K., you said, “As with anything difficult, eventually its purpose revealed itself, and I found it...

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It’s Been A Long Day (Keep Me Silent)

  New York-based photographer Josephine Cardin created the work ‘Keep Me Silent‘ as a series of self-portraits exploring the weight of the dark secrets, emotions, and experiences we harbor throughout...

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Lightly child, lightly

I am a prophet of the past. And how do you see and foresee the future? As when a man sees a woman with a beautiful body walking before him in the street and looks at her with desire, but she doesn’t...

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