Echo

echo |ˈekō| noun ( pl. echoes ) 1 a sound or series of sounds caused by the reflection of sound waves from a surface back to the listener: the walls threw back the echoes of his footsteps. • a reflected radio or radar beam. • the deliberate introduction of reverberation into a sound recording. • Linguistics the repetition in structure and content of one speaker's utterance by another.

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Why are you looking at me bird on Flickr.

Why are you looking at me bird

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Retail therapy on Flickr.

Retail therapy

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Bikes

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We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

Lawrence Clark Powell (via observando)

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old books

19th century leather bound books with marbled page edges

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The State of The American Dog

"America is two countries now—the country of its narrative and the country of its numbers, with the latter sitting in judgment of the former. In the stories we tell ourselves, we are nearly always too good: too soft on criminals, too easy on terrorists, too lenient with immigrants, too kind to animals. In the stories told by our numbers, we imprison, we drone, we deport, and we euthanize with an easy conscience and an avenging zeal."

"We are not a pure country or a country that values purity. We are a country of adoption, a country of rescues, a country of mutts. At least that's how we like to think of ourselves. But we are also a country that likes to create idylls of its own good intentions and then penalize what doesn't fit."

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Band of Outsiders Double Wall Ceramic Traveler - Rainbow and black, 12 fl oz

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First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.

Octavia E. Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories (via observando)

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Nanda Blue Hole Luganville, Vanuatu

14 natural swimming pools

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In my experience, nothing worthwhile has ever really been all that easy. But it certainly has been worthwhile regardless how difficult it seemed.

Robert Fanney (via observando)

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Vast: Atoll by Adwen Creative

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In a historical first, the Church of England has voted to allow women to serve as bishops. An overwhelming 351 members voted in favor of the measure, 72 voted against it, and 10 abstained. Before the vote by the national assembly known as the General Synod, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said the public would view it as “almost incomprehensible” if the measure were to fail. Just two years ago, a similar piece of legislation failed to get two-thirds of the vote. Women can already serve as bishops in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

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mostly nature

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nature / vintage