June 2009
28 posts
My Little Secret to Living with Less | Small... →
jeff and i have decided that instead of purchasing a home in the next few years, we want to rent a super awesome condo and buy a small vintage airstream trailer instead. as we think more and more about our future, we both agree that we want mobility and freedom. i think those things are born from simplicity. this is a great, short article to remind myself of just that.
also, if we were to ever...
“Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the...”
– Written On The Body, Jeanette Winterson (via skyisland) (via kipling) (via hydrogen)
Winterson is one of my favorite authors. Auto reblog.
“In today’s culture, we are often described more by what we ‘like’, rather than...”
– the whole quote is great, but this part struck me in particular. i just desperately want to get out of the “like” realm, and into the “do, think, fight.” why does that seem so difficult most days?
TRIPLE VISION by Chase S. Gilbert. (excerpt) (via igather)
The Minnesota Planetarium and Space Discovery... →
3-D space photos! get your glasses ready!
“The construction of gender goes on as busily today as it did in earlier times, say the Victorian era. And it goes on not only where one might expect it to - in the media, the private and public schools, the courts, the family, nuclear or extended or single-parented - in short, in what Louis Althusser has called the “ideological state apparati.” The construction of gender also...
Transient Luminous Events →
we had the most amazing sheet lightning tonight, right outside our window. i love watching those silent electrical storms (even if i half expect a hostile alien ship to fly out of them). i was doing a little internet research about this kind of lightning (why is there no sound? is heat lightning really from heat?) and i came upon this webpage. transient luminous events are an insanely interesting...
“If there ever is a tomorrow when we’re not together, there is something you must...”
– - Winnie The Pooh (via infinitebutterflies) (via endofmarch)
today is the anniversary of my dad’s death.
i’m back home from my trip to georgia … engaged and with two kittens to add to the family! it’s been a life-changing week - pictures to come sooooon!
