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Anything less than mad, passionate extrordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with, and love shouldn’t be one of them.
Ione Skye, Dream for an Insomniac
And poems are spare. With so little space, they require a distillation, which concentrates and intensifies their meaning and effect. Like evaporating seawater, where only the salt remains, those few lines communicate more. And the best photographs that I know follow this same trajectory.
- Chris Orwig
I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.
―Rosalia de Castro
Insatiable rats blow up the moon
What does it say about us that we must always poke and query and explode?
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist Friday, October 9, 2009
Former President Clinton Endorses Garamendi During Whirlwind Tour
I was excited to attend a rally today in South San Francisco with former President Bill Clinton speaking to a crowd of 300 about the economy, jobs, health care and green technology.
Take a 5 minute break from your hectic day…enjoy! (via What I Learned Today)
Kuroshio Sea by Jon Rawlinson - Best viewed in full screen with the volume up
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Ayn Rand (via quotewhore)
Death & Taxes 2010 - Interesting graphical representation of Obama’s 2010 federal budget request. By wallstats.com.
I believe that a book is a box.
Because a book carries something from some one person to another.
And because it is used (and can be used) to carry ideas across time. Dennis Downey, ‘We Never Go Away’ from NPR’s This I Believe
Because a book carries something from some one person to another.
And because it is used (and can be used) to carry ideas across time. Dennis Downey, ‘We Never Go Away’ from NPR’s This I Believe

