February 2012
34 posts
9 Essential Skills Kids Should Learn
Post written by Leo Babauta.
Kids in today’s school system are not being prepared well for tomorrow’s world.
As someone who went from the corporate world and then the government world to the ever-changing online world, I know how the world of yesterday is rapidly becoming irrelevant. I was trained in the newspaper industry, where we all believed we would be relevant forever — and I now...
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Anonymous asked: Are you in love?
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““Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely...”
– Bob Marley
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The Question Is Do You Choose to Love This Person...
I’m 10,000 feet in the air and feeling ambitious. I figure if I go down, might as well go down swinging. So I picked the toughest question in my inbox of 208. Yes, I know they are accumulating. That’s why I’m answering questions and not surfing Facebook. Anywho, got my Dunkin Donuts coffee balancing on the lopsided tray, my half folded lap top pressed against the reclined seat in front of me,...
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Unless it’s mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it’s a waste of your time....”
– film. / Dream For An Insomniac
Oh. God. Yes.
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Public Service Announcement - Bullying
BULLYING. This is a subject that is very important, an increasingly huge problem and yet met with a blind-eye so often.
Last week, my step-sister’s son, who was just 13 years old, committed suicide. He was being bullied at school, so his answer to his pain, fear and confusion was to take a gun and shoot himself in the head. This tragedy is unspeakable.
I sit here feeling so helpless...
Osho: Love or Mutual Masturbation? →
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But people go on confusing love with sex. Sex may be part of love, but sex is not love. Sex is just a physical, biological attraction, and in sex you remain two. In sex you are not concerned with the other, you are concerned with yourself. You are simply exploiting the other, you are simply using the other for some biological satisfaction of your own, and the other is using you....
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“Comfort the girl
help her understand
no memory
no matter how sad
and no...”
– Normal Song - Perfume Genius
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“You haven’t given up yet. You’re hopeful, not cynical. There are people out...”
– Erin Foster
“This morning, with her, having coffee.”
– Johnny Cash, when asked for his definition of paradise.
Brilliant Democratic State Senator Tacks 'Every... →
stfuhypocrisy:
Undaunted by the monumental failure of Personhood USA’s push to declare fertilized human eggs exactly the same as grown ass adults in Mississippi, conservatives in Oklahoma have pushed forward with their own Personhood Bill. But one Democratic smartass isn’t having it, and she finds the whole thing so absurd that she tacked on an amendment of her own that would outlaw the spilling...
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