“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
—Roald Dahl
April 2011
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this week's note from the universe
And if you have the audacity to find it and the courage to make it your focus, in spite of the countless temptations to do otherwise, you will have learned well, your life will be transformed, and all things will be added unto you.
“End” game,
The Universe
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to no one.”
—Shakespeare
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Realizing Your Worth: Employee Engagement Through Volunteering →
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Here’s a review by Dave MacDonald (@davemacdonald) of Yupana Consulting or our recent workshop in Vancouver, BC.
Thanks for the great overview Dave!Amplify’d from yupana.ca
Employee Engagement – A Morning With Realized Worthby Dave on April…
Note to self:
Fold your petals up next time.
Your buds are wilting
With the humidity of your urgency.
There’s time
There’s time
There’s time
There’s time
No matter how you feel right now
In your moment of thirst
There’s time.
Now,
Turn your face up to the sun
Roll out your leaves
And grow.
I have a habit of always wanting things to be different than they are. Good for changing what I can, bad for accepting what I cannot.
In the former this dissatisfaction drives my determination to make the world a more beautiful and loving place… In the latter it leaves me pining for inaccurate impersonations of individuals that can easily veer into a nonexistent reality.
It’s like encountering people through an old pane of glass: their outlines get distorted and sometimes my heart gets caught up in seeing figments of rainbows and flashes of light that don’t actually exist. And all too often the glass shatters when I touch it, leaving people standing before me cloaked only in painful truth. So I have no other choice but to walk away, my fingertips bleeding with discontentment.
Just once it would be nice to be pleasantly surprised instead of quietly disappointed…
“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.”
—J.D. Salinger, The Catcher In The Rye (via paperlover)
Thanks for all the goose bumps, Erin!
The Universe
Greening Modernism Challenges Current Sustainable Values // elemental →
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A Brief Recap of Last Night’s Inaugural AIANY Oculus Book Talk Series with Carl Stein at New York City’s Center for Architecture
As reported by Maxinne Rhea Leighton, Assoc. AIA:
Carl Stein, FAIA’s Greening Modernism: Preservation, Sustainability and the Modern Movement (W.W. Norton…
Bolivia grants nature same rights as humans →
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Bolivia is to pass a law — called la Ley de Derechos de la Madre Tierra (The Law of Mother Earth) — which will grant nature equal rights to humans.
Its About Time!!
"Equality Act" Asks LGBT Public Servants to Reveal Sexual Orientation // The Rainbow Manifesto →
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As part of an ongoing “equality drive” in the UK, public servants including teachers, nurses, and police officers may be asked to disclose their sexual orientation, gender identity, and other personal details.
“From April, public bodies will be subject to the Equality Act […] which will…
“Shell smashed, juices flowing
Wings twitch, legs are going
Don’t get sentimental
It always ends up drivel…
One day… I’m going to grow wings…
A chemical reaction
Hysterical and useless
Hysterical and…”
“We need the World Bank, the IMF, all the big foundations, and all the governments to admit that, for 30 years, we all blew it, including me when I was President. We were wrong to believe that food was like some other product in international trade, and we all have to go back to a more responsible and sustainable form of agriculture.”
—Former US President Bill Clinton, at the UN World Food Day, 2008 (via thegreenstuff)
“What is any spring but a mindless rearrangement of cells in the crust of a spinning earth as it floats in endless circuit of the sun? What is the sun itself but one of a billion insensible stars forever going nowhere into nothingness?”
—Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road
“Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion. A matter of taste, a whim, an eye, a beholder, an opinion, a spin, light crossing the frame, paint, projection. The moment. Context.”
—Margaret Cho (via cassket)
“Suggesting that women have abortions for “convenience” diminishes the hard work of women and is beyond insulting. Living my dream is my right. Not having my body hijacked, especially when I am doing everything possible to prevent pregnancy, is my right. I refuse to be told that my dreams are inconvenient and should be sacrificed.”
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Abortion Gang, Inconvenient Dreams (via ghouldilocks)
Boom. Roasted.
Love,
Rabble
(via rabbleprochoice)
Why couldn’t you be everything thought you were? Instead I’m left sitting here Surrounded by tangled skeletons Trying to sort out my skull from my wishbone.
“Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits.”
—Thomas Hardy
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