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head first, fearless.
eats, drinks, dances, laughs, learns, listens, speaks, serves, creates, celebrates. likes sex, power, beauty, hope and change.
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head first, fearless.
eats, drinks, dances, laughs, learns, listens, speaks, serves, creates, celebrates. likes sex, power, beauty, hope and change.
www, twitter, fb
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
Woodrow T. Wilson (via reluctantbuddha)
"There are many kinds of good to be done in the world. But if you wish to promote education as a force for social justice, there are better and worse ways to do it. Ethics is not just intentions; it’s also effectiveness."
Should You Give to Harvard? - The Moral of the Story Blog - NYTimes.com
"obamu: (v.) To ignore inexpedient and inconvenient facts or realities, think “Yes we can, Yes we can,” and proceed with optimism using those facts as an inspiration (literally, as fuel). It is used to elicit success in a personal endeavor. One explanation holds that it is the opposite of kobamu. (拒む, which means to refuse, reject, or oppose).
“[Japanese bloggers] give the following example: :ほら、何落ち込んでいるんだよ。オバめよ、オバめ。 “Or, “Hey, why are you so down in the dumps? Cheer up, cheer up!”… ”
One more Japanese-language citation is from a Twitter tweet, which defines it simply as believing you can accomplish something. “Those familiar with the language will understand immediately that such a coinage would sound very natural, and that it is typical of Japanese creativity and their sense of humor."
"A fellowship with all the mutilated and incomplete things in the world … the sorrow of every person and thing in the world at its own incompleteness, I did not understand when whole … not only me and her, a split being, but everyone else too."
Italo Calvino, The Cloven Viscount
"If only I could halve every whole thing like this, so that everyone could escape from his obtuse and ignorant wholeness. And you too would find yourself wanting everything to be halved like yourself, because beauty and knowledge and justice only exists in what has been cut to shreds."
Italo Calvino, The Cloven Viscount
and this embodies and explains the things that (REALLY) bother me about Teach For America. it’s what idealism can’t accomplish. two years at an urban school is not long-term, not sustainable, ineffective. service shouldn’t about what good it does us, the volunteers, what ideals we’re carrying out. it’s not enough to just do good things in principle. it must have clear sustainable benefits for the community and people you’re serving. it’s not enough to drop into a kid’s life and mentor them for two years and then disappear to law school or investment banking. service is a long-term commitment.
Granted, no parent is perfect. And whining about parental failure, real or not, is practically an American pastime that keeps the therapeutic community dutifully employed. snicker.
At a birthday celebration for the First Family’s dog, Bo, his brother Cappy sneaks a treat from a table in the Rose Garden of the White House, Oct. 9, 2009. (via The Official White House Photostream)
"Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster’s scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less."
De Profundis, Oscar Wilde
(via @ekblack)
