Bufflehead Cabin
May all beings everywhere, with whom we are inseparably interconnected, be fulfilled, awakened, and free. May there be peace in this world and throughout the entire universe, and may we all together complete the spiritual journey.
— Lama Surya Das
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Ken,
This is a slightly redacted version of this “wild west” essay that I sent to Carol Kennedy after an e mail about the wild horse crisis in her...
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lips. 2013.
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“A horror so deep only ritual can contain it.”—
Sarah Kane, Crave.
(via batarde)
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Beautiful shivs for your post-apocalyptic cutlery drawer.
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“I’ve been saying for some time that the Benghazi story is, in fact, a big deal, just not for the reason Republicans keep saying it is. The two major...”
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One of my favorite pastimes as a child in Iran was to make kites from old newspapers and fly them nightly from our roof at dusk. The thrill was...
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“I am not a Žižek tote bag. I am not a Melanie Phillips umbrella. You are not my friends: You are bottles of fizzy pop. You are not a park bench: You...”
Doc Watson - 1991 - Black Mountain Rag (by UncleSkidder)
“Let’s do a little country counterpoint now, son.”, is a nice closing. Y’all have a good day.
(via mariser)
undr:
Men unload coffee at a Brooklyn dock with Lower Manhattan visible in the background, 1949
(via throateyeandknucklebone)
“Undisturbed,
my garden fills
with summer growth—
how I wish for one
who would push the deep grass aside.”
Izumi Shikibu (via youreyesblazeout)
(via journalofanobody)
As we were reaching the end of our trip we spotted a great gathering of great blue herons (Ardea herodias) at the falls of the Rappahannock River, in Fredericksburg, Virginia. From Mayfield Bridge my sisters counted about thirty birds on the rocks at the fall line. I counted 25 from the shore, but never had a sight line that took in more than about ten birds at once.
In 1910 a small hydroelectric dam was constructed here, impeding the movement of anadromous fish - like herring, shad, and stripped bass - that historically swam from the ocean and bay to the Rappahannock headwaters to spawn. The dam was demolished in 2006, and these fish are now returning to their historical ranges in the river, though their populations are still in flux. Our guess is that the herons we saw were there to exploit a run of fish at the old Embry Dam site, where the river narrows and the falls slow (but no longer stop) the fishes’ progress.
Please click any photo in the set for full views.
Bonus trivia: the collective term for a group of herons is sedge, sege, or siege.
Great blue heron (Ardea herodias), at the falls of the Rappahannock River, Fredericskburg, Virginia.
Please click photo to enlarge.
![thekimonogallery:
‘The photo above shows the central living area of a rural farmhouse on the border of Tochigi and Ibaraki prefectures, Japan. The house was restored by Kenji Tsuchisawa who bought it as a rundown heap when he was only 20.’
[I love to play Go in this room.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/0ebab6b71d3995a7b455af26e2388dff/tumblr_mn076gbqA31ri6x74o1_500.jpg)
‘The photo above shows the central living area of a rural farmhouse on the border of Tochigi and Ibaraki prefectures, Japan. The house was restored by Kenji Tsuchisawa who bought it as a rundown heap when he was only 20.’
[I love to play Go in this room.]
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A growing body of mortality research on immigrants has shown that the longer they live in the United States, the worse their rates of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.
DRIVE IT LIKE YOU STOLE IT
For no practical purpose at all, I wanted to see if I could make a screwdriver into a car key. What fun it would be to impersonate the look of a stolen car with a screwdriver jammed into the ignition! And maybe I could empty my glove box all over the seat so it looks like I was scrounging for spare change and prescription drugs too!
![Camille Rose Garcia - Down the Rabbit Hole
[Hookah time!]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/17ae5d49402996e48750bae1f37b9832/tumblr_mn0oi3eBVe1qz503po1_400.png)
Words that sound and mean the same thing in different languages are called “cognates”. These are five words that have cognates in at least four of the seven Eurasiatic language families. Those languages, about 700 in all, are spoken in an area extending from the British Isles to western China and from the Arctic to southern India. Only one word, “thou” (the singular form of “you”), has a cognate in all seven families.
