An interesting post written by my sister…the original post can be found here:

http://rangerbagel.com/2011/11/14/we-are-the-100/

I woke up on a Friday feeling fresh, peaceful, surprisingly well rested. My roommate was still in his room having not left for work. He was standing watching his television. “There were giant earthquakes in Japan,” his face was still, cold and pale as stone. He has a unique tie to Japan having spent time there and having made friends. I feel the chilled stillness take my heart and I choke feeling unable to grasp any peaceful humor from a situatio … Read More

via Ranger Bagel: The Press Ranger

43.  Dorcas Gustine

I was not beloved of the villagers,
but all because I spoke my mind,
and met those who transgressed against me
with plain remonstrance, hiding nor nurturing
nor secret griefs nor grudges.
That act of the Spartan boy is greatly praised,
who hid the wolf under his cloak,
letting it devour him, uncomplainingly.

It is braver, I think, to snatch the wolf forth
and fight him openly, even in the street,
amid dust and howls of pain.
The tongue may be an unruly member -
but silence poisons the soul.

Berate me who will – I am content.

- Edgar Lee Masters (1868 – 1950)

Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.

~~By Mark Twain

A zero-budget film that wonders about the possibilities of truly knowing anyone.  It also happens to have been created by my younger sister…. :0)

“It doesn’t seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.”

–Richard Feynman

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus