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I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

[maureen2musings]

Spring in the English countryside

journeyswithjon

[radical-revolution]

People don't need enormous cars; they need admiration and respect. They don't need a constant stream of new clothes; they need to feel that others consider them to be attractive, and they need excitement and variety and beauty. People don't need electronic entertainment; they need something interesting to occupy their minds and emotions. And so forth. Trying to fill real but nonmaterial needs-for identity, community, self-esteem, challenge, love, joy-with material things is to set up an unquenchable appetite for false solutions to never-satisfied longings. A society that allows itself to admit and articulate its nonmaterial human needs, and to find nonmaterial ways to satisfy them, world require much lower material and energy throughputs and would provide much higher levels of human fulfillment.

Donella H. Meadows, Limits to Growth

[maureen2musings]

nicoles_moments

[classicalcanvas]

French Novels and Rose (1888) by Vincent van Gogh

[summers-in-hollywood]

Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night, 1934

[herpsandbirds]

[lustingupon]

[7wo7rees]

Ravi Zupa

[7wo7rees]

Douglas Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001)

[ymutate]

Zulu Imbenge baskets are woven entirely of recycled telephone wire in the heart of KwaZulu-Natal, a province of South Africa. In the 1990s, Zulu women began repurposing discarded telephone wires, weaving them into intricate patterns to create colorful and durable baskets while preserving traditional weaving techniques.

[classicalcanvas]

Summer Evening, Wheatfield with Setting sun (1888) by Vincent van Gogh

[citizenscreen]

Martin Scorsese’s TAXI DRIVER won the Palme d'Or at the 29th Cannes Film Festival on May 28, 1976. Scorsese is pictured with Jodie Foster, Robert De Niro, and Harvey Keitel at the Cannes press conference.

[gregorygalloway]

“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” was released in the US on 6 June 1965 (it was released in the UK on 20 August).

It was the Rolling Stones’ first #1 hit in the US (and 4th #1 in the UK).

[rearte2]

by Tilde Grynnerup

[myjetpack]

My latest cartoon for Guardian Books

The 100 best novels of all time

The top 100 novels of all time published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?

[jabberding0]

[nobrashfestivity]

Yoshida Hiroshi Hodakayama after rain (alternate scan) color woodcut 1927 Signed in ink Yoshida and sealed jizuri (self-printed. 1927. Double-size color woodcut,framed and glazed. Creased and toned Image: 22 x 29 cm Chu-Griffis Art Collection, Special Collections, Shain Library, Connecticut College