June 2012
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minty steep hills.
when we were looking for this Indian restaurant downtown called Little Delhi, we were led over many incredibly steep hills. my thigh and calve muscles burned but I kept steady breathing and kept going. after about 7 such hills of concrete, we plateaued and I was relieved, even picking up the pace a little…until I saw The Hill in front of us. No joke, it was one block of about 70 degrees...
May 2012
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crawled into my comforter, holding it close in fetal position, listening to my keane playlist with panic at the disco, rufus wainwright, hush sound
fever.
I think the semester has finally caught up to me. uuuuug.
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“I know there are supposedly happy people in this world. I never believed it, but...”
– Maurice Sendak on depression. [complete interviews here] (via nprfreshair)
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April 2012
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5 Places Children are Affected by Armed Conflicts →
worldvisionacts:
By Kathryn Reid
A United Nations specialist says Joseph Kony, head of a rebel group known as the Lord’s Resistance Army, should be arrested and sent to the International Criminal Court.
“But how we get him is crucial to us, because a lot of Kony’s…
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the selfless Art of caregiving →
A few days before Christmas in 2002, Clark’s mother, actress Lynn Redgrave, was diagnosed with breast cancer. As the pair struggled with the diagnosis, they decided to turn the disease into a photographic journal — “to make it less scary.” It was a defining moment in many ways. Not only did it bring mother and daughter together in ways they could never imagine, but it also made...
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21 albums to buy on Record Store Day (4/21) →
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“When we tell one another stories about creativity, we tend to leave out this...”
– Imagine: How Creativity Works- Jonah Lehrer (via marchingtheskies)
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The Culprit Life: Day 978 →
theculpritlife:
Around midnight, I released my dark opus to the second year of medical school entitled Year Two online! You can listen to the full album here for free or buy it for only $3: http://theculpritlife.bandcamp.com/ Plus, you can download the song “Integers” for free! <a href=”http://theculpritlife.bandcamp.com/track/integers”...
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Blue Like Jazz: Blog: Make It True →
bluelikejazzblog:
In the Final Scene of Blue Like Jazz, the Actors Aren’t Acting The final scene in Blue Like Jazz is bold. Very bold. What filmmaker is willing to close a movie with eight minutes of dialogue that takes place in a single location? But that’s exactly what Steve Taylor did in…
mikeclevenger:
“The resurrection completes the inauguration of God’s kingdom…It is the decisive event demonstrating thet God’s kingdom really has been launched on earth as it is in heaven. The message of Easter is that God’s new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you’re now invited to belong to it.”
― N.T. Wright
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March 2012
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“Nothing about me wants to write. I reject it liked a transplanted organ. It’s a...”
– Rachel Maddow on writing (via nprfreshair)
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6 Writing Tips from John Steinbeck →
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Artist suspends real clouds in the middle of the... →
singularitarian:
That’s not photoshop; that’s an actual cloud hovering inside an actual room. Artist Berndnaut Smilde merges art and science to create small man-made clouds that exist — albeit for just a moment — indoors.
whoaaaaa
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“My life is not a story about me. And your life’s not a story about you. My...”
– - Shauna Niequist
From Relevant: Deeper Walk
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Watchmy friend Elena Brown in film school made a visual sequence assignment out of me doing non-law school things…blasphemous!
p.s. after Andy Nguyen wins an Oscar, she will win one too.
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The New Way Doctors Learn // Spaced Repetition
ziyadmd:
A simple technique dramatically improved the memory recall of Harvard Medical School students. Try it for yourself!
Turning a medical student into a doctor takes a whole lot of knowledge. B. Price Kerfoot, an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, was frustrated at how much knowledge his students seemed to forget over the course of their education. He suspected...
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“…was at Walgreens today. I was picking up some aspirin, and I was thinking...”
– Phil Jobst
I know Phil from our law school class. He went missing yesterday and this was his status update the day before. I keep praying for a miracle and that God extends grace and mercy to him and his family. Phil was one of the few people in my class who sat down with me and asked about who...
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