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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The Man who dares!
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeps could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena;
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who errs and comes short again and again…
who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions,
and spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the least knows in the end the triumph of high achievement;
and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring gently,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls
who know neither victory nor defeat.
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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RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms
Ability is what we are capable of doing. Motivation determines what we do. Attitude determines how well we do it.
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.
Source: quote-book
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.
Chip Conley: Measuring what makes life worthwhile
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Chota coffee bada coffee…
jo dikhta hai woh hame lagta hai ki woh hai, par woh hota nahi hai…
aur jo nahi dikhta, hame lagta hai ki nahi hai, par woh hota hai.
