December 2008
11 posts
How happy is the blameless Vestal’s lot!...
Stuff White People Like →
“People used to call me a good writer. Now they say I can’t write at all;...”
– John Ruskin, 19th century essayist (via gettingtoawesome)
Habitation
Marriage is not
a house or even a tent
it is before that, and colder:
The edge of the forest, the edge
of the desert
the unpainted stairs
at the back where we squat
outside, eating popcorn
where painfully and with wonder
at having survived even
this far
we are learning to make fire
- Margaret Atwood
Moby - I Love to Move In Here
“… Brain circuits involved in face-to-face contact can become weaker...”
– Is Technology Rewiring Our Brains?
Watch“Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we’re left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives tend to honor most.”