October 2009
Emma and Elena, Exposing The Sex Trade →
“Emma Thompson may be best known for the stories she’s been part of on screen and stage, but now she wants to tell you a different sort of tale. It’s the story of a young girl, Elena, who was forced into the global sex industry.
Elena is from a small town in the Eastern European republic of Moldova. At the age of 18, she was promised a job and a future in the U.K. When she...
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gratitude
today i am grateful for:
my eccentric kitten who tries to curl up under my neck/on my chest whenever i sit down
healthy, organic, locally grown food
worms
compost
ice cream made with local peaches
my amazing bicycle
the millstone market, a small local market (only a bike ride away)
spending most of the day with my love
kisses
music
an unexpected letter from an old friend (with awesome...
Blueberry Grower Shunned Over Child Labor Charges →
“Wal-Mart and two other top retailers said Friday they are suspending business with a large southwestern Michigan blueberry grower after investigators found children as young as 6 working in the grower’s fields.”
indierawk:
Bobby “Boris” Pickett - Monster...
indierawk:
The Dresden Dolls - Science Fiction...
“Learn to give freely of all that you have. Learn also to receive graciously all...”
– Eileen Caddy
Watch
“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding...”
– Sandi Toksvig lists ten unsung heroines, from the inventor of the cotton gin to a queen who led her troops into battle wearing an iron leg - the world’s first known use of a prosthesis. (via bingoparaphernalia) (via gauntlet) (via robot-heart)
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gratitude
today i am grateful for:
lebanese squash
blue hubbard squash
cooking up a story
olives
ice cube(s)
glitter
cello
momo trying to climb on me & cuddle with me at the same time
bbc adaptations of classic literature
coasters
medleys
sigg water bottles
long walks
yoga
crazy energetic kitten who wants to play wants to play wants to play
toy piano (& momo walking on/playing the...
“you are that promise, let your rain fall down, everything you do right now is...”
– Climbing PoeTree
“Life, believe, is not a dream
So dark as sages say;
Oft a little...”
– Charlotte Bronte
“When we have to do with vice and vicious characters, I maintain it is better to...”
– Anne Bronte in response to critics of her novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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gratitude
today i am grateful for:
composing these lists often enough that i am actually beginning to make these lists in my head as a sort of meditation
louis armstrong
my kitten, who inspires/forces me to dance around my apartment with my keffiyeh trailing behind me (it has become one of his favorite toys, besides nate’s old/empty film cannisters)
quick/easy/delicious recipes
rolling all of my...
fuckyeahzombies:
Dead Man’s Bones - My Body’s a...
Bless you, Bea Arthur
the-activista:
Another reason to revel in reruns! Golden Girl leaves $300k to homeless LGBT youth http://bit.ly/1Wp7k4
WatchThis is INCREDIBLE!
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gratitude
today i am grateful for:
watching the lord of the rings
butternut squash bisque
apple picking
cider donuts
petting donkeys, goats, & piglets
kittens who curl up in unusul/humorous places
leftovers
time to work on my knitting & other projects
happy worms in our worm bin
loud purring kittens
veterinarians
new yarn
cuddling
freckles
napping
brushing my teeth
time to work on...
“Rap, then, falls somewhere between the worlds of music and talk, but sharing...”
– John Szwed “The Real Old School” from The VIBE History of Hip-Hop 1999 (via itsthemusicpeople)
music used as a weapon, and not the bad ass...
itsthemusicpeople:
Music that was played as a mode of torture against Gitmo prisoners
Agency names 35 artists, songs used on U.S. military terror suspects A Freedom of Information Act request filed on Thursday names 35 musicians or songs that it said were used against detainees at U.S. military detention centers, including the one at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The National Security Archive — the...
whiskeyandgoatsmilk:
The Ran-Dells- The Martian...
“The spell was broken. My uncle learned to laugh, and I learned to cry. The...”
– The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (via samiwaslike) (via whiskeyandgoatsmilk)
“Any intense emotional attachment thus divides into either wanting to have...”
– Judith Butler, Imitation and Gender Insubordination (1991) (via cinnamonhearts)
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gratitude
today i am grateful for:
my new kitten, momo
veterinarians
hiking
fall foliage
getting packages in the mail
sending letters
crunchy leaves
panang curry
home-cooked meals
watching fellowship & cuddling
my camera
the weekend
the rain
sunsets
garlic naan
groceries
mini bagels
“We wanted to make the wedding representative of the institution we’d like...”
– Jessica Valenti, Weddings, & Social Expectations (via the ch!cktionary)
Yes.
(via robot-heart)
fuckyeahdykes:
Feel It in My Bones - TIesto ft....