September 2011
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August 2011
142 posts
Hipmunk Blog: Home of the savvy traveler: While Out Riding: Traveling the World on a Bicycle →
blog.hipmunk.com
In my years of round-the-world travels, I’ve come across many people doing a similar trip with very different ways of getting from A to B. Motorcycles, cars, hitchhiking, walking - you name it. But I’m always impressed by those who are doing the rough roads by bicycle: the stamina,…
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“When someone works for less pay than she can live on…she has made a great sacrifice for you…The ‘working poor’…are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices high. To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor, to everyone.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (via peaceofshell)
Here Comes the Sun
The Beatles
Here Comes The Sun | The Beatles
Released in 1969
“I think copying someone’s work is the fastest way to learn certain things about drawing and line. It’s funny how there is such a taboo against it. I learned everything from just copying other people’s work.”
—Lynda Barry (via johnmartz) (via austinkleon)
All blame is a waste of time.
“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won’t succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.”
- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
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“Ota.”
—Swahili for Grow / Bask / Dream. So much potential in three letters. (via peacecorpstanzania)
Suite Judy Blue Eyes
Crosby, Stills, and Nash
my favorite song ever
Crosby, Stills, and Nash — Suite Judy Blue Eyes - 1969
