Month: October 2011

  • My thoughts are profanities strung together to form a cohesive reality that I despise Cynically Jaded

  • scissorsandthread: Marble Fence | The Wool Acorn Such a simple DIY but so effective. Who would have thought a drill and some marbles could transform an old tired fence into something magical?! Just imagine how gorgeous it would be when the sun hits the fence in the dusk? I wish I had a wooden fence…

  • jmak: Thanks, Steve. Posting designs like this one makes me paranoid, because I can’t shake the feeling that it’s not original. I enjoyed the process regardless, but please let me know if somebody else beat me to the idea! Thoughts? (Source: http://jmak.tumblr.com)

  • I’ve experimented with my significance before, and it’s never yielded the results I’d hoped for. I’ve walked away, or simply faded quite deliberately to see if I would be recalled, instead all it did was confirm what I thought. When I see the fragility in others, I’m automatically drawn to want to comfort them, to…

  • Knowledge that is not acted upon is impotent. Cynically Jaded

  • realistic-idealist: it’s weird, realizing that we’re never going to find that one person who will understand us like we’ve always wanted to be understood. Never say never…the trick is to be paying attention at the time that that person does come along, and be sure not to be distracted by the irrelevant, or the insignificant,…

  • promotingpeace: Children of Agent Orange. Fifty years ago this month, in the early stages of the Vietnam War, the US military began spraying rural areas of the country with the herbicide, Agent Orange. The programme’s goal was to defoliate forested land, depriving the enemy Viet Cong of cover and driving peasants to the cities, thus…

  • Pervasive ignorance must not be mistaken for collective wisdom Cynically Jaded