the girl of the hour

[wellesleymag]

NPR read commencement addresses going back to 1774 to find “The Best Commencement Speeches, Ever.” Nine were delivered at Wellesley College.

[ifuckinglovesociology]

By virtue of this principle, society is not the mere sum of individuals, but the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics. Undoubtedly no collective entity can be produced if there are no individual consciousnesses: this is a necessary but not a sufficient condition. In addition these consciousnesses must be associated and combined in a certain way. It is from this combination that social life arises and consequently it is this combination which explains it. By aggregating together, by interpenetrating, by fusing together, individuals give birth to a being, psychical if you will, but one which constitutes a psychical individuality of a new kind. Thus it is in the nature of that individuality and not in that of its conponent elements that we must search for the proximate and determining causes of the facts produced in it. The group thinks, feels and acts entirely differently from the way its members would if they were isolated. If therefore we begin by studying these members separately, we will understand nothing about what is taking place in the group. In a word, there is between psychology and sociology the same break in continuity as there is between biology and the physical and chemical sciences. Consequently every time a social phenomenon is directly explained by a psychological phenomenon, we may rest assured that the explanation is false.

Durkheim. The rules of sociological method. (via socio-logic)

[g-rayscaled]

[bukotz]

[thegirlofthehour]

Mi abuela, Bilá making her amazing arroz con pollo. (at Ocean Club - Tower 1)

[thegirlofthehour]

[thegirlofthehour]

Twitter Probz

I'm such a loser. I just tweeted from one of my Twitter accounts to the other, and laughed about it. I need a life hahahah

[philippaeilhart]

[thegirlofthehour]

Downton Abbey

[thegirlofthehour]

My beautiful guardian angel. MB23. RIP 2.14.11.

[betype]

Sonreir. by ~Gvz

[thegirlofthehour]

The Acoustic Guitar Project was created to help musicians reconnect to the original moment that inspired them to be singer-songwriters. Back to a time when it was just them and their guitar. Focused. Challenged. Creative. Most likely self-exiled to an isolated space. And definitely completely lost in the moment. By giving musicians a platform with simple restrictions, we hope that The Project will inspire them to rise to the occasion or even help them learn to let go.

[critgemhero]

I bestow upon you what may be a piece of your childhood locked up in a part of your mind that you may have never remembered again if it wasn’t for this video

I Link to you

Pippi Longstocking: The Movie 

[naturetale]

[thegirlofthehour]

“Be humble, for you are made of earth. Be noble, for you are made of stars.”

–Serbian proverb

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[dailydoseofstuf]

[thegirlofthehour]

In response to a video I watched with photography by Mark Gee, I decided to edit the music and make it more meaningful to me. I have never seen such inspirational and humbling photography of the full moon.  Video produced by Claire A. Cerda

Photography by Mark Gee