May 2013
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After learning my flight was detained 4 hours,
I heard the announcement:
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– Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952), “Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal.” I think this poem may be making the rounds, this week, but that’s as it should be. (via oliviacirce)
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WHEN NEW BOOKS ARRIVE IN THE MAIL:
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When I was walking around downtown today
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This day the spring had decided to be not poetical but simply cheerful. It had...
– Tove Jansson, Moominland Midwinter. (via booksnippets)
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‘They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each...
– Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed. (via booksnippets)
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As we move forward in the struggle to be regarded as fully human in the eyes of...
– Gay Rights Are Not Queer Liberation (via sociolab)
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March 2013
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Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern,...
– Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed. (via booksnippets)
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His gentleness was uncompromising; because he would not compete for dominance,...
– Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed. (via booksnippets)
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It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea...
– Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed. (via booksnippets)
February 2013
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If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just....
– Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed. (via booksnippets)
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