sigh.
There’s something very humbling about clearing out years worth of your things. Each of these things once had a place in your life and now they mean so much and so little at the same time. It’s sad that most of the things should be thrown away if only not for the sentimental value they possess. I cleared out my study table last week and the rest of my room today to realize that all my life’s worth of possessions that are truly valuable to me can quite easily fit into a paper box. Everything else can burn in a fire tomorrow and I would not shed tears. As I throw away years and years worth of junk, I can’t help but feel a little empty and pained. Even the school notes, yellowing papers, old toys. Once mine, now they belong to the world.
I also realize that this same logic applies to the relationships in my life. Why? Why can’t I be more normal and open up? What are these elusive and mystical qualities called friendship and love? I feel like reaching out to this random stranger, tapping him/her on his shoulder, pour my heart out and speak until there is no one more word to say. And walk away.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
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This clay bust from the Moche culture (~250 BCE to 750 CE), which occupied multiple river valleys in Ecuador and Peru. I was stunned when I realized how old this bust was; it looks like modern art! Which says something about both, I think.
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Can this movie just come out already…?
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Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 1861.
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A Greek bronze helmet, covered with gold leaf and decorated with snakes, lions and a peacock’s tail (or palmette), has been discovered in the waters of Haifa Bay in Israel. But how this helmet ended up at the bottom of the bay is a mystery.
The helmet dates back around 2,600 years and likely belonged to a wealthy Greek mercenary who took part in a series of wars, immortalized in the Bible, which ravaged the region at that time. Archaeologists believe that he likely fought for an Egyptian pharaoh named Necho II.
Dredging discovery
The helmet was discovered accidentally in 2007 during commercial dredging operations in the harbor. After it was discovered, conservators with the Israel Antiquities Authority went to work cleaning it and archaeologists began to analyze it.
They discovered that it is very similar to another helmet found in the 1950s near the Italian island of Giglio, about 1,500 miles (2,300 kilometers) away. That helmet has been dated to around 2,600 years ago, something which helped the researchers arrive at a date for the Haifa Bay helmet.
More at the link.
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No child is born homophobic.
This child is precious and I hope he never changes.
This youtube video is seriously the best.
You don’t like gay marriage because you don’t want to have to tell your kids about gay people?
Uh.. this kid is taking the news pretty well. He barely even cares! He’s just like “oh thats cool.. dudes can marry. Ping pong anyone?”
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