Musings with JZ

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Ad Campaign by Amnesty International Switzerland

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Poignant photo series.

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"More Americans than ever enroll in college, but the graduates who emerge a few years later indicate that instead of reducing inequality, our system of higher education reinforces it. Three out of four adults who grow up in the top quarter of the income spectrum earn baccalaureate degrees by age 24, but it’s only one out of three in the next quarter down. In the bottom half of the economic distribution, it’s less than one out of five for those in the third bracket and fewer than one out of 10 in the poorest."

Source: NYT

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One of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard in my life, Just recently listened to this and I teared up because its just a work of art it really opened my heart and mind. Just wished I had listened to this when it came out 2 years ago

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Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul…

Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass

Song: “Awake My Soul” by Mumford & Sons

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Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin - Mediterranian Sun Dance Live

Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin - Mediterranian Sun Dance Performed Live Subscribe for more music!

Regarded as one of the best guitarists of the 20th century, Paco de Lucia will be missed. 

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Alcoholics Anonymous, Without the Religion

A growing number of A.A. meetings offer a 12-step program for nonreligious people in recovery: agnostics, atheists, humanists or freethinkers.

Source: NYT

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Artist: Banksy

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I Want to Make Love to You Like In the Movies.

"I want to take you home to my apartment. Though my living space is unfeasibly large and furnished well beyond my means with Crate & Barrel accouterments, you’ll find it unacceptably messy because men, right?"

Source: McSweeney's

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Best New Space Pictures: "Super Earth," Solar Storm, More

A snowstorm hammers the U.S., the sun rages on New Year's Day, and a "Super Earth" gets a closer look in this week's best space pictures.

Source: National Geographic

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“Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.”

-Thich Nhat Hanh

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A Daddy's Letter to His Little Girl (About Her Future Husband)

"I don’t care if he puts his elbows on the dinner table—as long as he puts his eyes on the way your nose scrunches when you smile. And then can’t stop looking.

I don’t care if he can’t play a bit of golf with me—as long as he can play with the children you give him and revel in all the glorious and frustrating ways they are just like you.

I don’t care if he doesn’t follow his wallet—as long as he follows his heart and it always leads him back to you.

I don’t care if he is strong—as long as he gives you the space to exercise the strength that is in your heart.

I couldn’t care less how he votes—as long as he wakes up every morning and daily elects you to a place of honor in your home and a place of reverence in his heart.

I don’t care about the color of his skin—as long as he paints the canvas of your lives with brushstrokes of patience, and sacrifice, and vulnerability, and tenderness.

I don’t care if he was raised in this religion or that religion or no religion—as long as he was raised to value the sacred and to know every moment of life, and every moment of life with you, is deeply sacred"

Source: drkellyflanagan.com

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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Source: StoryCorps

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Soneto De La Noche by Pablo Neruda

Heard this read and sung today at the symphony. I was pleasantly surprised since I was only expecting Beethoven.

LXXXIX Cuando yo muera quiero tus manos en mis ojos: quiero la luz y el trigo de tus manos amadas pasar una vez más sobre mí su frescura: sentir la suavidad que cambió mi destino. Quiero que vivas mientras yo, dormido, te espero, quiero que tus oídos sigan oyendo el viento, que huelas el aroma del mar que amamos juntos y que sigas pisando la arena que pisamos. Quiero que lo que amo siga vivo y a ti te amé y canté sobre todas las cosas, por eso sigue tú floreciendo, florida, para que alcances todo lo que mi amor te ordena, para que se pasee mi sombra por tu pelo, para que así conozcan la razón de mi canto.

Source: http://www.consolatio.com/2007/02/neruda_when_i_d.html

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A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

Source: apod.nasa.gov

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All You Need is Love, Gratitude, and Oxytocin

A new study finds a biological mechanism behind “thank you"—and reveals one way that it bonds couples together.

"Somehow, then, the oxytocin system isn’t just selective toward joy or feeling good. It’s really selective toward something about gratitude, perhaps to the extent that sharing gratitude—saying that my happiness is due to your role in my life—recognizes our interdependence. The authors say that the oxytocin system is associated with “solidifying the glue that binds adults into meaningful and important relationships.”

Source: Greater Good Science Center