December 2008
20 posts
“Les temps sont durs pour les rêveurs. (Times are hard for dreamers.)”
– Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain (2001)
“Too often, the thing you want most is the one thing you can’t have. Desire...”
– Grey’s Anatomy
“But thus far the researchers who have been eagerly awaiting news of the duckies’...”
– http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/12/22/have-you-seen-a-rubber-ducky-near-greenland-please-call-nasa/
“The heart has no bones, you say, so it can’t break, but the purpose of...”
– Josh Ritter, musician.
America: the U.N. Black Sheep on World Hunger →
Someone feel free to explain this. The US voted against statements about world hunger. What’s more, out of ~180 countries, we were the only ones to do so. I need to do more research on the context.
“Mommy, how did baby Jesus get out?”
Mom panics, then knows the answer....”
– Jean H., telling a story at an Advent talk. Sheer brilliance.
Tough Economy Leaves Family Pets In Shelters -... →
Soooo sad…
“There’s a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to...”
– Big Fish
“Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point...”
– Douglas Pagels, via L.
Word of the Day →
hypaethral • \hye-PEETH-rul\ • adjective
1 : having a roofless central space
2 : open to the sky
“Still, he said, “We are not giving you the advice to start smiling at everyone...”
– http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/health/05happy-web.html?bl&ex=1228626000&en=c26f4b2fc5be93c5&ei=5087%0A
