A Mindful Voyager ∞

"Hold tightly my hand, patiently while I search for the truth of my life."

Wed, 01 May 2013 17:54:29 -0700

“Hold tightly my hand,
patiently while I search for
the truth of my life.”

- Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)

"I know not the when or the why of all of this, I just know it’s you."

Wed, 01 May 2013 17:53:58 -0700

“I know not the when
or the why of all of this,
I just know it’s you.”

- Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)

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Wed, 01 May 2013 17:42:28 -0700

tylerknott: Typewriter Series #399 by Tyler Knott Gregson

Wed, 01 May 2013 12:42:04 -0700

tylerknott:

Typewriter Series #399 by Tyler Knott Gregson

"This silence will fall and all that you never said will smother my ears."

Wed, 01 May 2013 12:41:18 -0700

“This silence will fall
and all that you never said
will smother my ears.”

- Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)

beckybotsford: whenever you feel sad just remember that there are billions of cells in your body...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:33:47 -0700

beckybotsford:

whenever you feel sad just remember that there are billions of cells in your body and all they care about is you

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Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:42:24 -0800

humansofnewyork: “What’s your favorite thing about your...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:37:58 -0800

humansofnewyork:

“What’s your favorite thing about your dad?”

“He lets me beat him up and doesn’t cry.”

humansofnewyork: I think MLK was so effective because he...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:37:34 -0800

humansofnewyork:

I think MLK was so effective because he balanced idealism with pragmatism. He captured the public’s imagination with lofty aims, yet focused his energy on small changes. I think it’s beautiful that our most celebrated social activist began by targeting the policy of a single city’s bus system. He changed the world by focusing on the problems in front of his face.

On this MLK Day, let’s remember to think big.

And keep our feet on the ground.

humansofnewyork: Mixed and Matched

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:36:46 -0800

humansofnewyork:

Mixed and Matched

likeafieldmouse: What Arms are For

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:36:08 -0800

likeafieldmouse:

What Arms are For

jtotheizzoe: Logarithmic Astronomy What a photo! If you looked...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:34:55 -0800

jtotheizzoe:

Logarithmic Astronomy

What a photo! If you looked to the skies last night (January 21st), you may have noticed a bright point of light nearly on top of the Moon. That was Jupiter! Last night was the closest they will come (an event called “conjunction”) until 2026.

Their nearly intersecting “paths” through the sky are only due to our Earthly perspective, of course. Many things in the night sky will appear next to each other if we just wait long enough. What’s especially cool about this photograph is that it captures three levels of astronomical complexity in one image.

First we have our terrestrial satellite, Luna, with the “terminator” line of day/night stretched across a large, dark volcanic plain known as the “Ocean of Storms”, which is an awesome name for a volcanic plain. The next brightest image is Jupiter, our solar system’s largest planet/failed star. And those dots around Jupiter? Those are three of its Galilean moons! The photographer’s Facebook page says there’s four moons of Jupiter in this shot, but I only see three. If we are seeing them in their increasing distance from Jupiter (and that’s a big if, since perspective can play tricks on us), they are probably Io, Europa, and Ganymede.

It’s like peeling back the layers of an astronomical onion, in a single photo. Great work by Chris Levitan, check out his Facebook page.

roseaposey: “Judgments”I took this last year, but in...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:34:24 -0800

roseaposey:

“Judgments”

I took this last year, but in retrospect, I think it’s my strongest piece from high school.

Working on this project really made me examine my own opinions, preconceptions and prejudices about “slutty” women and women who choose to cover all of their skin alike. I used to assume that all women who wore Hijabs were being oppressed, slut-shame, and look down on and judge any woman who didn’t express her sexuality in a way that I found appropriate.

I’d like to think I’m more open now.

humansofnewyork: This man was driving me across Tehran...

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:29:31 -0800

humansofnewyork:

This man was driving me across Tehran yesterday, when I learned that he’d lived for 8 years in America— incidentally on the same STREET as me in Georgia.

He first crossed into the United States from Mexico— paying $1,500 to be transported across the border. He wanted to go to University and be a dentist, but learned that the idea of America was much more bountiful than the reality. He worked at a factory job for 8 years, without ever being able to get a drivers license. He wasn’t able to find a foothold in society. After 9/11, he said things got much tougher for Middle Eastern immigrants. “I had a great passion for the American people,” he said. “When 9/11 happened, I had no money, so instead I gave my blood.”

Five years ago he spent a night in jail for driving without a license. He decided he was tired of being nervous all the time, and he went all out for a green card. When he was turned down, he returned to Iran.

His fee for a 45 minute taxi ride across Tehran was only $6. I paid him the rate he’d have received in America, and asked for his photograph. He was the kind of man I most admire. The kind that realizes you get one shot at life, and risks everything to make the best of it. I was sorry it didn’t work out for him.

“It was my destiny,” he said. He didn’t sound like he believed his own words though.

“Are you married?” I asked.

“Yes. I met my wife when I returned to Iran.”

“Well there you go,” I said.

As I prepared to take his photograph, he made one request: “Don’t photograph me with the taxi,” he said, “it’s a low class job.”

“It’s not a low class job,” I said. “It’s the job of people who take huge risks so their children can be lawyers and surgeons.”

(Tehran, Iran)

Tomorrow is my first day of my last quarter as an undergraduate student. Mixed emotions D: :D ...

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:27:01 -0800

Tomorrow is my first day of my last quarter as an undergraduate student. Mixed emotions D: :D :/ :) :(

booksdirect: “I like books better than people.” Sad, but true.

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:55:19 -0800

booksdirect:

“I like books better than people.”

Sad, but true.

booksdirect: I fell in love the way you fall asleep; slowly,...

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:53:50 -0800

booksdirect:

I fell in love the way you fall asleep; slowly, and then all at once.” - The Fault in Our Stars by John Green.

"House Speaker John Boehner yanked the bill to provide $60 billion in emergency aid to states ravaged..."

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:54:23 -0800

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House Speaker John Boehner yanked the bill to provide $60 billion in emergency aid to states ravaged by Hurricane Sandy to get back at a top lieutenant who defied him over the Fiscal Cliff fix, Congressional sources said Wednesday.

Boehner was angry, the sources said, when Majority Leader Eric Cantor led the revolt Tuesday by conservative House Republicans against the Fiscal Cliff compromise that wound up being passed later in the day, the sources said.

So rather than let Cantor bring the Sandy aid bill he had hammered out with New York and New Jersey lawmakers to the floor for a vote, Boehner (R-Ohio) pulled rank and tabled it - likely killing the aid package for the current session of Congress, which ends Thursday.

Boehner’s decision to pull the bill triggered outrage Wednesday from both Republicans and Democrats in New York and other states devastated by Sandy. They said his decision forces tens of thousands of storm victims to wait even longer for help.

His voice shaking, Rep. Pete King, a Long Island Republican, took to the floor of the House Wednesday morning to launch an extrordinary attack against Boehner, his own political leader.

King called it a “cruel knife in the back” to New York and New Jersey.

Gov. Cuomo, a Democrat, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, issued a joint statement calling the House’s inaction a “dereliction of duty.”

And at a Manhattan press conference, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said, “Speaker Boehner pulled out the rug from us at the last minute.” He added, “This failure to get relief now could be called the Boehner betrayal.”

”

- The New York Daily News, “Sources: House Speaker Yanked $60 Billion In Sandy Aid Out of Spite.”

Pathetic.

(via inothernews)

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Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:52:36 -0800

Read before judging the title ;)

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:47:00 -0800

Read before judging the title ;)