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Art by Alena Aenami on Artstation.

Music: BLANKS - HIGHER 

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How Warming Winters Are Affecting Everything

Winters are warming faster than summers in many places, and colder parts of the U.S. are warming faster than hotter ones. The warming winter climate has year-round consequences across the country.

Winters are warming faster than other seasons across much of the U.S. While that may sound like a welcome change for those bundled in scarves and hats, it’s causing a cascade of unpredictable impacts in communities across the country.

Temperatures continue to steadily rise around the globe, but that trend isn’t spread evenly across the map or even the yearly calendar.

“The cold seasons are warming faster than the warm seasons,” says Deke Arndt, chief of climate monitoring at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. “The colder times of day are warming faster than warmer times of day. And the colder places are warming faster than the warmer places.”

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“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”

— | Martin Luther King, Jr

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“Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?” Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others…”

— | Timothy Leary

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Common Phrases Correctly

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Cloe amazed us all with her #bobross painting this year. It isn’t that she’s only #10yearsold it’s that it’s damn good for her first oil painting. #bestof2018 https://www.instagram.com/markhardy/p/BsGWB9NF4HR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=o4awin2quvch

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“To know what you are, and what you want from life. This is, of course, the oldest advice in the book: know thyself. For thousands of years, philosophers and prophets have urged people to know themselves. But this advice was never more urgent than in the 21st century, because unlike in the days of Laozi or Socrates, now you have serious competition. Coca-Cola, Amazon, Baidu and the government are all racing to hack you.”

— |  Yuval Harari

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“The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. Children, of course, begin life with an untarnished sense of wonder, a capacity to experience total joy at something as simple as the greenness of a leaf; but as they grow older, the awareness of death and decay begins to impinge on their consciousness and subtly erode their joie de vivre, their idealism – and their assumption of immortality. As a child matures, he sees death and pain everywhere about him, and begins to lose faith in the ultimate goodness of man. But, if he’s reasonably strong – and lucky – he can emerge from this twilight of the soul into a rebirth of life’s elan. Both because of and in spite of his awareness of the meaninglessness of life, he can forge a fresh sense of purpose and affirmation. He may not recapture the same pure sense of wonder he was born with, but he can shape something far more enduring and sustaining. The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death – however mutable man may be able to make them – our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”

— Stanley Kubrick

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However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. | Stanley Kubrick

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light. | Stanley Kubrick

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If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.

Ralf Speth (via inspirationmobile)

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It’s great to have success, and it’s a squandering of life-force to not enjoy those moments when they come… There’s a terrible habit people have to distrust those moments and to distrust the pleasure and the excitement around them, as though that’s a fraudulent moment… The suspicion of joy [is] a great pity. There are so few times in your life when you can just pump your fist in the air… and when that happens, you should take pleasure from it.

Terrific interview with Elizabeth Gilbert on the Longform podcast, one of these 9 podcasts for a fuller life. 

Also see Gilbert on the courage to live in a state of uninterrupted marvel. 

(via explore-blog)

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