August 2011
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{ failure & belief }
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I go by a field where once I cultivated a few poor crops. It is now covered with young trees, for the forest that belongs here has come back and reclaimed its own. And I think of all the effort I have wasted and all the time, and of how much joy I took in that failed work and how much it taught me. For in so failing I learned something of my place, something of myself, and now I...
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“My goal is not to be a tastemaker. It has never been that. I don’t consider...”
– http://nymag.com/fashion/11/fall/jenna-lyons/index1.html
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“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.
{ Oscar Wilde }”
– via jason mraz’s twitter
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{ skinny = skinny? }
That isn’t to say that Paris is a paradise of health and self-acceptance, but just that it’s less about extremes.
from a fascinating analysis of the difference between what Garance calls “New York skinny” and “Paris skinny.” go here to read the entire entry.
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{ not "just" }
{ this is not my office. i wouldn’t mind if it was. }
because i feel considerably ashamed of my job and its title, and have felt this way to some degree for the past 7 years, when people ask what i “do” my reflex is to say, “oh, i’m just a secretary.” in reality i do much more than the title implies, but it’s the title for someone in my position...
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{ friends & letters }
i know i am strong enough to get through this and be better on the other side. but sometimes i wonder, IS there another side? or is life one long trial, with intermittent valleys of oasis, that we are meant to endure? what if betterment is not achieved in periodic installments with chapters of rest in between, but over a long-suffering lifetime of continuously exerted perseverance? i...
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{ je peux et je ferais }
there is unmistakable power in positive thinking. when i worked in oncology, a nurse once told me that 80% of the effect of any treatment was placebo. since 77% of statistics are fabricated, i won’t ask you to believe that, but her point was demonstrated to me again and again during my 7-year station in the oncology/hematology battle. regardless of how much more time treatment granted...
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“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
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