May 2013
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“If your degree was focused upon one particular area, don’t let that stop you...”
– Richard Branson’s advice to graduates, echoing Debbie Millman’s fantastic commencement address on courage and the creative life.
Pair with Don’t Go Back to School.
(via explore-blog)
YES!
“When the tornado sirens went off around 2:15, the staff of the AgapeLand...”
– NYTimes (via ratsoff)
“Every dollar spent at a locally owned business generates two-to-four times the...”
– Forbes piece on the amazing power of spending locally. (via ratsoff)
“Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the...”
– Marianne Williamson (via creatingaquietmind)
“Do as much research as you can +
Never copy, only get influenced”
– I Used to Be a Design Student – advice on design and life from famous successful designers (via explore-blog)
“The government is cutting music programmes in schools and slashing Arts grants...”
– Concert pianist James Rhodes articulates the urgency of finding your purpose and doing what you love. As a wise woman eloquently put it, “Start with a big, fat lump in your throat, start with a profound sense of wrong, a deep homesickness, or a crazy lovesickness, and run with it.” (via...
Oh, Pioneer!: The Proposal Story: →
theohpioneer:
Ever since Mackenzie and I started dating, I’ve been giving her handwritten letters, sealed with a wax seal. I wrote her the first letter about a week after we started dating on a solo hiking trip, and I realized then that my life had changed forever. The alone time that I usually enjoyed,…
Oh. my God.
Now, THAT’S a love story.
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“Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you...”
– Lillian Hellman, playwright (via curiousdelight)
“Employers plan to hire only 2.1 percent more new college graduates this year...”
– Things aren’t looking so good for the graduating class of 2013. Perhaps now is a better time than ever to consider avoiding “work,” finding your purpose, making glorious mistakes, and living the creative rather than the safe life. (via explore-blog)
Sweet!
Okay, an update y'all.
It is 10:42am, Thursday. The speech is at 4pm on Saturday.
Voice has improved. Still not “passable” yet, but getting there.
I could go on and on about “why me?”, and my mommy issues, and all the things I will be missing out during my senior week, but as always… like with any surprise/catastrophe/whathaveyou that life throws at me…
this is the present moment....
“In a way, the best education you can get is just talking with people who are...”
– Don’t Go Back to School (via explore-blog)
lulz, great.
“Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people...”
– Music legend Brian Eno, born on May 15, 1948, considers the essence and currencies of art. (via explore-blog)
“If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze!” - St....”
– (via curiousdelight)
“There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice. But I do know...”
– Happy birthday, Adrienne Rich! The 1997 letter with which the beloved poet became the only person to turn down the prestigious National Medal of Arts. (via explore-blog)
Whoa!
Adrienne Rich will always have a special place in my heart for giving me my freshmen year, second semester voice poem.
“And here is the good news nested inside the bad: Many of you, most of you, are...”
– John Green’s tumblr: The Commencement Address
This is so great. I wish my speaker (can’t remember who he was, but he was bad) had told me these things.
(via hermionejg)
John Green, King of the World everybody.
(via lolasteaparty)
Okay, I just have to put this down somewhere.
Universe?
What did I do to deserve laryngitis this week? This week of all weeks when I am supposed to speak at my graduation on Saturday? You could have mutated my arm. I could’ve had snot dripping down my face the whole time. Anything else BUT MY VOICE.
I take good care of myself ALL THE DAMN TIME, maybe TOO much and the one time I let myself go to celebrate all that has happened …...
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“I am not the first person you loved.
You are not the first person I looked at...”
– Clementine von Radics, Mouthful of Forevers (via adderalldust)
That’s it. I don’t need anything else from life.
Angelina Jolie's Surgery →
Angelina Jolie’ decision to make her recent double-mastectomy surgery public is bold and brave and admirable.
Wow. Very admirable. She’s a very real woman. I wish her good health.
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