September 2011
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Co-Worker of the year . . . better than the pranks... →
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I don’t have to stay curious, I am curious, about all of it, all the time,” he...
– Studs Terkel
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You must do the thing you think you cannot do
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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Piano
Touched by your goodness, I am like that grand piano we found one night on Willoughby that someone had smashed and somehow heaved through an open window. And you might think by this I mean I’m broken or abandoned, or unloved. Truth is, I don’t know exactly what I am, any more than the wreckage in the alley knows it’s a piano, filling with trash and yellow leaves. Maybe I’m...
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Me, waiting for You
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washingtonpoststyle: It appears that we have been using the word “baleful”...
– NPR:
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ambedo
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—which leads to a dawning awareness of the haunting fragility of life, a mood whose only known cure is the vuvuzela.
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