coalesce

the mecca for my mind's musings

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blurry pic from this summer when I was strong and tan and hung out with Rufus a lot... 

[cabinporn]

Sawmill River cabin on Red Fire Farm, Montague, Massachusetts.

Submitted by Derek Yorks.

[stridzo-blog]

I've been in this cabin (during a blueberry festival!)

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Drowning people sometimes die fighting their rescuers

Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

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steely dan, a favorite since childhood

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today's harvest. late summer bliss.

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SOMETIMES, I CAN'T EVEN BELIEVE

that people just eat hamburgers and act like it's no big deal. YOUR ACTIONS MATTER. every choice we make matters. how can we, as human beings, lie so constantly and incessantly to ourselves?

[ethereal-rose]

[stridzo-blog]

Doubtless, the suggestion of creating a life-nurturing alternative to our existing consumer society still has countless key-punching economists puckering their mouths, rolling their eyes, and trying to persuade their sons and daughters that such an effort is fruitless. These folks go home at night and, sometime between having take-out on the table and finding the TV remote, they offer parental guidance, urging their daughters to grow up to continue the fight for fair treatment in the workforce, and their sons to practice their necktie knots so that they will be able to comfortably don their daily noose in adulthood.

Radical Homemakers, Shannon Hayes

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Sabina said, "Unintentional beauty. Yes. Another way of putting it might be 'beauty by mistake.' Before beauty disappears entirely from the earth, it will go on existing for a while by mistake. 'Beauty by mistake'- the final phase in the history of beauty."

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

[gardenporn]

I want to be friends with these folks.

[ohrobstens]

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danvers

If there is one thing I can count on when being home, it's that I will find at least 2 pairs of shoes at the Salvation Army in Saugus. That place is a shoe mecca. Another pair of doc martens and some short cowboy boots! yeeah!

[homininae]

Globalized industrialized food is not cheap: it is too costly for the Earth, for the farmers, for our health. The Earth can no longer carry the burden of groundwater mining, pesticide pollution, disappearance of species and destabilization of the climate. Farmers can no longer carry the burden of debt, which is inevitable in industrial farming with its high costs of production. It is incapable of producing safe, culturally appropriate, tasty, quality food. And it is incapable of producing enough food for all because it is wasteful of land, water and energy. Industrial agriculture uses ten times more energy than it produces. It is thus ten times less efficient.

Vandana Shiva (via homininae)

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MY NEW BIKE!!! I hope it comes in soon!

[thrashpotato]

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......... too true.

[dimdrms]

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"Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it. Don't wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot black coffee."

           ----  the dreamy mr. dale cooper; coffee and life philosophy soulmate

[rupsje]