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I'm Chris: Poet, lover of academy and porch, sidewalk and turning row. I am looking for everyone discovering her hands and camera trying to overstand the in between.

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"Civilization is entirely the product of phonetic literacy. As it dissolves with the electronic revolution, we rediscover a tribal integral awareness that manifests itself in a complete shift in our sensory lives....This new electronic environment itself constitutes an inner trip, collectively, without benefit of drugs. The impulse to use hallucinogens is a kind of empathy with the electronic environment." - Marshall McLuhan

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“Neither the flag nor the wind is moving, it is MIND that moves.”

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I’m starting to read the signs…

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So simple: Floating Shade Cloths

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So here is what I’ve spent the afternoon imagining: J.D. Salinger has a change of heart and comes out with a new novel, but releases it on a website he has created. The book is downloadable as a searchable .pdf for a month in advance of it’s hardcover release date. There’s a feature that let’s you bookmark in the last sentence you read and jump back to it between taking your dog for a walk. The novel is downloaded and e-mailed around like crazy. Broke college kids give it to their parents for the holidays. Suddenly, book news makes the front page of the newspaper. Kindle sales go through the roof, and within three months, Apple, Microsoft, and Google all develop their own e-readers. The quality of e-readers goes through the roof. By this time, Salinger has made a small fortune from hardback sales, without having to advertise–enough that he pays the entire world to not bother him ever again. People use their check from Salinger to buy the next generation of e-reader. Suddenly, there’s a market for downloadable novels and hardbacks. Publishing is reinvigorated; there’s money to take chances again. The Dow recovers. Libraries check out e-readers loaded with entire sections–automotive repair manuals for the entire history of cars, every yearbook, ever. People fall in love at voluminous rates.

Please, Mr. Salinger?
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—Tyler Meier, in the Kenyon Review Blog (via thebronzemedal) (via buyhercandy) (via unicornology) (via sleepanddream)

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justlia:

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I don’t know how to react to this. These are exactly my thoughts, and I don’t know which one I believe in more.

Guess what?

allibautista:

Your father. Your mother. Your brothers and sisters. Aunts and Uncles, Cousins and Grandparents. Your best friend. Your worst enemy. That mean guy in your english class. Your boss. That teacher you hate. The stranger that stops what they’re doing to help you out. The crazy old homeless guy on the sidewalk. Your children. Your significant other. Me. You.

ALL of us have one fundamental thing in common, quite possibly the most important thing to remember when dealing with any other person: we are all ONLY HUMAN. We are all helpless pawns/products of the environment we develop in. And our tendencies, our personalities are hardwired into us by the combination of our parents’ biological histories.

Our only worthy contribution to this world we live in, is the effort we put forth to improve ourselves throughout our lives despite what is hardwired into us biologically, and despite our surroundings.

So be a little more empathetic. Sometimes people make honest mistakes, or sometimes they just aren’t aware of their own wrong-doing. Sometimes they JUST DON’T GET IT.

It’s when their actions are premeditated that you have to worry. When they do hurtful things knowingly, and intentionally. It’s when they’re completely aware of the damage their actions will do, and they either don’t care, or even hope for messy results.

Otherwise the rest, sadly, are oblivious to their blunders. When it comes down to it, we’re all just trying to make ourselves happy. Sometimes to achieve that, we knock eachother out of the way… What most people don’t realize, is that if we followed our intuition more often, our paths would be more harmonious.

But all these distractions from ourselves (the media, materialism, celebrity lifestyle, glorified names and symbols) block us, and take our attention away from that path. So what do we do?

Not enough people take the time to reflect on themselves. Maybe they’re afraid of what they’ll find: imperfection. But the trick is to love those little dings and dents in your soul. They’re there for a reason, and the best part? We all have ‘em. :)

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