May 2011
1 post
9/11 healing: The mothers who found forgiveness,... →
I’d like to say thanks to everyone for the love today and urge everyone to spend 10 minutes to watch the video posted above.
If you don’t have time, consider the following: instead of viewing the death of Osama as some sort of karmic debt now paid, let us meditate on our own suffering to relate to those across the globe from us. If there is one thing that I have learned from 9-11, it is...
April 2011
2 posts
“Don’t aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the...”
– Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning Preface
March 2011
1 post
February 2011
5 posts
1 tag
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the...”
– Albert Einstein
January 2011
7 posts
believing as being
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faith in filling a cavernous heart
once carved out deep, in a brass-hard way
beauty found in faith, floating,
to still believe, hole in heart,
in the potential of empty space.
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faith in refilling a cavernous heart
past brim, overflowing, dripping on
my hands, your chest, strangers’ feet:
love.
to hide in your lips, beneath your tongue
where bleeding is letting go, white and...
from and for a dear friend
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Joy and Sorrow Then a woman said, “Speak to us of Joy and Sorrow.”
And he answered:
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
And how else can it be?
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that hold your wine the very cup that was burned in...
just applied to columbia
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one down, one to go
for the 58295802 people calling me to tell me...
Astrology is Earth-centric. Not Star- or Moon-centric. If the Moon’s relative position to the stars changes, that doesn’t mean the Zodiac changes.
Western astrologers have used a Tropical or season-based Zodiac for about 2,500 years. That is why time and location of birth are so important.
The signs of the Zodiac, while represented in constellations, are not derived or aligned...
December 2010
11 posts
“Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly...”
– Oscar Wilde
“The real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘survive.’ The honest men...”
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Sophie Scholl: Die letzten Tage (2005). Quote from Sophie Scholl, a student leader of the peaceful anti-government resistance group the White Rose in 1940s Germany. She was a biology major at the University of Munich. She was beheaded by the National Socialists in February, 1943. (via...
“Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you...”
– Marcel Proust
From a letter to Georges de Lauris, whose mother had just died (July 29, 1907)
hey neurobiology,
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your mom’s a cation channel that’s normally open
I will remember your small room the feel of you the light in the window your records your books our morning coffee our noons our nights our bodies spilled together sleeping the tiny flowing currents immediate and forever your leg my leg your arm my arm your smile and the warmth of you who made me laugh again.
Charles Bukowski
how to be a good listener without hearing anything...
This Is Your Brain on Metaphors →
Highlights:
1. Your insula processes both sensory disgust (e.g. putrid food) and moral disgust (e.g. insurance companies cheating honorable old ladies). “[…] Because the two are so viscerally similar. When we evolved the capacity to be disgusted by moral failures, we didn’t evolve a new brain region to handle it. Instead, the insula expanded its portfolio.”
2. Your anterior...
Concentration... 64... →
Quick notes:
What science tells us, though, is that not only does multitasking make our work 50% less valuable; it takes 50% longer to finish. Plus, it’s physiologically impossible for the brain to multitask.
Amazingly, they found that intelligence is not founded on one’s memory. Instead, intelligence emanates from one’s ability to control their selective attention.
By practicing brain...
November 2010
6 posts
DammitDana: Two city girls back in the 'burbs →
dammitdana:
“You’re still here? You ladies old enough to drink? I’ll be there for a bit if you wanna come have a drink. But not too long.” (later) “Hey, when you guys come back ask for me. I’m Mike, well around here known as Loris. Loris is the name on my passport and there are tons of Mike’s here so, that’s…
You forgot that dude that took an “inconspicuous” picture of me as...
loneliness
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is becoming a stranger to yourself
bildungsroman
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change is thus extremely important
"Just because you suck doesn't mean alternative...
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People on a listserv I’m on kept hating on alternative medicine (specifically reiki), so I wrote a response. I’m tired of having to justify my interests to all my “strictly rational” science friends, so I’m posting this here.
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I’m an ex-pre-med, neuroscience major and I did research at HUP – I know science and I know how to review scientific papers. I also took a...
why do we want happy endings?
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what does “and they lived happily ever after” look like, anyway? we’re offered a million hackneyed templates of what life looks like after the lovebirds slay a beast of sorts and are able to stay together, but what happens after that? fairy tales end at the beginning.
i’m more interested in what happens during the credits, in the space after those last pages. we know...
October 2010
15 posts
“Sunday Kind of Love” - Etta James
The Artist's Duty
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So it is the duty of the artist to discourage all traces of shame To extend all boundaries To fog them in right over the plate To kill only what is ridiculous To establish problem To ignore solutions To listen to no one To omit nothing To contradict everything To generate the free brain To bear no cross To take part in no crucifixion To tinkle a warning when mankind strays To explode upon all...
A poem for swingers, a poem for the playgirls of...
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I like women who haven’t lived with too many men. I don’t expect virginity but I simply prefer women who haven’t been rubbed raw by experience.
There is a quality about women who choose men sparingly; it appears in their walk in their eyes in their laughter and in their gentle hearts.
Women who have had too many men seem to choose the next one out of revenge rather than with ...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-10-10) →
The Magnetic Fields (51)
The Beach Boys (25)
The Replacements (20)
Silver Jews (12)
Beethoven, Ludwig Van (9)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
GROW THE FUCK UP →
“Ditto” this article. I got a lot of shit to do, too, so in case you don’t have time to read, it’s a great response piece to the NYT article which excuses our generation’s marked laziness.
In short: NYT claims that our minds are just as plastic (changeable) at 25 than at 15. Although our generation looks like complete assholes in comparison to our folks’ and our folks rental-units’ (read: we...
you were real, just like an itch that one is...
Now that you’ve left me, you tell me that of course we’ll always be friends; but I’m not sure I want that sort of friendship. Hello, how are you, I’m fine, have a nice day: is this what it all comes down to? Interchangeable selves in a perfectly uniform world, so that one fuck, one lover, is just as good as another? That’s your ideal of transparent communication: everything already agreed to...
PROKIRSTINATION
“Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing… . Underneath this rather antic form of action-as-inaction is the much more unsettling question whether anything is worth doing at all.” - Mark Kingwell
September 2010
15 posts
this is my week
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monday: pretend it’s still the weekend tuesday: complain about work wednesday: tell people i can’t hang out because i have “so much work to do”. open books but internet instead thursday: go to van pelt to do three hours of work to feel accomplished and less guilty at happy hour friday: WEEKJA saturday: END!! WEEKENDD!!!$!!!!~#~#~ sunday: “shit”
repeat.