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Lest we forget

Posted on December 15, 2011 by thombit

“Passivity in the face of evil is not a virtue.”

Rabbi Reuven Bulka, November 11, 2011

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Paradise

Posted on December 15, 2011 by thombit

“it’s like paradise, spread out with a butter knife”

Mother Mother Eureka

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Understanding life

Posted on September 28, 2011 by thombit

“life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

Soren Kierkegaard

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The energy of caring

Posted on September 16, 2011 by thombit

“He thinks that if one cares deeply about someone or something new one throws a kind of energy out into the world, and “fruitfulness” is drawn in.”

Juliet in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

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Mark Rothko #2

Posted on September 16, 2011 by thombit

As so exquisitely described in the BBC video series, Rothko paintings are “in motion, seem to swell and breath and fill like sails catching the wind”

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Greatness through Service

Posted on September 16, 2011 by thombit

“Everyone can be great, because anyone can serve.”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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