This Is My Home
On an unseasonably warm November night in Manhattan on our way to get ice cream, we stumbled upon what appeared to be a vintage shop, brightly lit display window and all. As we began to walk in, a man sitting out front warned us that we were welcome to explore, but nothing inside was for sale. Our interests piqued, we began to browse through the collections the man out front had built throughout his life. This is a story of a man and his home.
(by Mark)
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Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.
A Shifting Culture
It is not so much about whether life will change, it’s more about how life will change and who will really benefit.
From a life of sustainability to one of economic dependency and uncertainty within the span of just a single generation.
Yousef belongs to the Gujjar community, a semi-nomadic group living in the valleys and mountains of the Kashmiri Himalayas, India. The people of his community and millions of others like them are not only beginning to lose their strong cultural identity but also their relationship with their environment and with it the possibility of a truly sustainable future.
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Flights of Fantasy
Ability is what we are capable of doing. Motivation determines what we do. Attitude determines how well we do it.
I wish I was a blotting paper. I could absorb all your sorrows.
Someday you curse God for making you miss the taxi, and a few years later, you thank God, that he made you miss it.
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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics:
You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded,because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus.
The stars died so that you could be here today.
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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
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