December 2011
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off the grid
i’m off the grid at a monastery in the south of France for the next two weeks. see you in the new year.
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“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”
– Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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fionn regan’s “snowy atlas...
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“You need not come any longer, Freedom. We have found our joys in your absence.”
– Iranian poetess, Elham Eslami, who died in a car accident yesterday along with her poet husband, Gholamreza Boroosan (via seaofgreen)
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Rocket attack kills three at Ivorian election... →
In the DRC, a waiting game
NY Times: “With a contentious election still unresolved more than a week after the voting, an uneasy quiet held here on Wednesday, punctuated by occasional blasts of tear gas, hurled rocks, gunshots and promises of more intense confrontations to come.”
“The election’s official outcome is not in much doubt. The incumbent president, Joseph Kabila, is widely be expected to be...
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Watchbrain magic. you won’t believe this.
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“Punched Out
Over six months, The New York Times examined the life and death of...”
– http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/sports/hockey/derek-boogaard-a-brain-going-bad.html?_r=1&ref=global-home
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‘don’t move’ by phantogram.
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Warm weather storm
In front of me
three blue shoulders of mountain
are shrugged into the sky.
My company whispers, leaning
into one another
with green leafy chatter.
It is that favorite anticipation
among the grasses,
trees, wheatfields and rivers:
a warm-weather storm.
The low bear-rumble spreads out
first here, then there -
heavy footed and surprising like a shadow
without its body.
The only sharp sound...
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joe pug’s ‘i do my father’s...
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“Conceiving Himself
Night after night after hot night in the clearing.
Stars,...”
– Jack Gilbert. From his collection, “The Great Fires”. Found it here: http://carolpeters.blogspot.com/2006/03/jack-gilbert.html
