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EPHEMERAL & EVERGREEN

Fleeting short posts are ephemeral. Thoughtful long posts are evergreen.

  • pbsthisdayinhistory:

    April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr. is Assassinated

    On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story motel room in Memphis, TN.

    Revisit the life and legacy of Dr. King with a special collection from PBS.

    A collection of original posters created for The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross PBS series features quotations by famous African Americans, including leaders, intellectuals and cultural figures such as Harriet Tubman, W.E.B. DuBois, Zora Neale Hurston, Jackie Robinson, Malcolm X, President Barack Obama, and more. The posters, which can be downloaded, printed and shared, can be found here: http://to.pbs.org/1efp1fy

  • millie-ba-billie:

    We Heart It の Be Happy | Love Life | via Tumblr

  • Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity. We cherish books even if unread, there mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access reassurance.

    A.E. Newton  (via paperlover)

    So that’s why I keep buying books!

  • Human beings are works in progress who mistakenly think they’re finished.

    Harvard’s Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness (one of the best books on the psychology of happiness) at TED 2014.

    Pair with this excellent read on why human character is a constant evolution, not a fixed quality.

    (via explore-blog)

  • A beautiful thing is never perfect.

    Egyptian Proverb   (via paperlover)

  • Castaway

    All turmoil dies,
    once the storm is past.
    An overturned ocean
    turns to liquid glass.
    The empty canvas
    of blue sky
    stretches ever wide.

    Once safe aboard
    an unfailing ship,
    a castaway now
    clings to a
    fragile skiff.
    And the internal
    storm begins.

    Doubt clouds the
    Minds’ firmament,
    waves of Despair
    toss the Heart
    to and fro,
    threatening to swallow
    Hope whole.
    Kraken–like Fear
    seizes Faith with
    its many arms,
    and crushes it.
    Confusion flashes and
    thunders in a
    disorienting cacophony.

    Tempestuous chaos rages
    internal, without perturbing
    the calm external.
    Doubly adrift, lacking
    anchor or direction,
    the castaway waits
    for death or rescue.

    Life’s turmoil strands
    and shipwrecks everyone.
    Making secret castaways
    of us all.
    Still, castaways can
    become lifelines cast
    to rescue others.

  • Someone once told me a story about long term relationships. To think of them as a continent to explore. I could spend a lifetime backpacking through Africa, and I would still never know all there is to know about that continent. To stay the course, to stay intentional, to stay curious and connected – that’s the heart of it. But it’s so easy to lose track of the trail, to get tired, to want to give up, or to want a new adventure. It can be so easy to lose sight of the goodness and mystery within the person sitting right in front of you.

    Joy Williams  (via thatkindofwoman)

  • We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

    William Shakespeare

  • What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!

    Nathaniel Hawthorne