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...human kind Cannot bear very much reality. Time past and time future What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present.

Burnt Norton from Four Quartets by TS Eliot

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Elizabeth Peyton (American, b. 1965), Liam, 1996. Watercolor and graphite on paper, 12 x 9 in.

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“When we worked here together, we fought, scratched, and clawed to make people’s lives a tiny bit better. That’s what public service is all about: small, incremental change every day. Teddy Roosevelt once said ‘Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is a chance to work hard at work worth doing.’ And I would add that what makes work worth doing is getting to do it with people that you love. I started my career more than thirty years ago in the Parks and Recreation department right here in Pawnee, Indiana. I had a lot of different jobs, including two terms as your governor. And soon, a new, unknown challenge awaits me which to me, even now, is thrilling because I love the work. Not to say that public service isn’t sexy because it definitely is, but that’s not why we do it. We do it because we get the chance to work hard at work worth doing, alongside a team of people who we love. So I thank those people who walked with me and I thank you for this honor. Now, go find your team and get to work.”

— Leslie Knope

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It is a strange kind of fire, the fire of self-righteousness, which gives us such pleasure by its warmth but does so little to banish the darkness.

Austin Craig White, from The Dark Tower, a pamphlet of the American Abolitionist Society, 1911 (via epigraphic)

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The most relatable bake off feeling.

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everyone: a pudding inspired by my husband! a dessert for my kids!

kim-joy: G A L A X Y T U R T L E S

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Mary Poppins Returns

Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda are practically perfect in every way in the delightful Mary Poppins Returns. Go inside the most magical musical movie of the year. 📷: Courtesy of Disney

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because this is pure noel gold

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“The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via sumaq-urpi)