July 2012
26 posts
“Assuming we haven’t destroyed ourselves in a nuclear war, there will be 8-10...”
– Isaac Asimov and other thinkers predict 2012 in 1987.
Also see John Maynard Keynes’ 1930 prediction for today. (via explore-blog)
shannonhale:
We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
—RAY BRADBURY
Shannon Hale: Why boys don't read girls... →
shannonhale:
When I do book signings, most of my line is made up of young girls with their mothers, teen girls alone, and mother friend groups. But there’s usually at least one boy with a stack of my books. This boy is anywhere from 8-19, he’s carrying a worn stack of the Books of Bayern, and he’s excited and…
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ginger (haole): I am not my breasts →
gingerhaole:
I met a woman named Candy today. She’s 34 and in treatment for breast cancer. She’s going in for her last round of chemo this week and then is going to have a double mastectomy. She’s lost her hair (but kept her brows and lashes), and had wrapped her head in a striped scarf. She’s one of those…
the revolving door.
warsanshire:
they all say
‘i pity the one who left you’
then they leave.
