February 2012
“I’ve often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake.”
– Federico García Lorca
“Body is the bow, asana is the arrow, and the soul is the target.”
– B.K.S. Iyengar
“Its going to keep hurting, until you realize that there are places in the human...”
– Yasmin Mogahed
“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the LORD. “And my ways are far...”
– Isaiah 55:8
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NY Times: The Talent Society →
By DAVID BROOKS
Published: February 20, 2012
We’re living in the middle of an amazing era of individualism. A few generations ago, it was considered shameful for people to have children unless they were married. But as Jason DeParle and Sabrina Tavernise reported in The Times on Saturday, these days, more than half of the births to women under 30 occur outside of marriage.
In 1957, 57...
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Tate Britain| Past Exhibitions | Chris Ofili: The... →
13 September 2005 – 1 January 2007
About | Individual artworks | Visiting information
Chris Ofili’s The Upper Room consists of thirteen paintings displayed in an environment especially designed by the architect David Adjaye. When it was first publicly exhibited in 2002, critics commented on the chapel-like qualities of the space and its lighting. The arrangement of twelve canvases flanking...
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“The world into which we are born is brutal and cruel, and at the same time of...”
– Carl Jung
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NY Times: Israelis Flock to Sages' Tombs Seeking... →
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: February 21, 2012 at 2:05 AM ET
NETIVOT, Israel (AP) — One man prays to heal the legs he broke in a car accident. An older woman pleads for grandchildren. Another visitor has come to see “God’s secretary.”
These believers are part of a growing phenomenon in Israel, where hundreds of thousands of people from starkly different backgrounds...
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NY Times: Burberry for Autumn 2012 Focuses on the... →
By SUZY MENKES
Published: February 20, 2012
LONDON — Everyone knows that Christopher Bailey is a hip designer. But as star creative director at Burberry Prorsum , he should know something about hips. Women’s hips.
The collection the designer sent out on Monday had nonstop focus on padded pockets, below a waist that itself was outlined with a belt tied in a bow.
Even when the pockets...
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NY Times: It's Not Too Late to Become a Yoga... →
February 20, 2012
By JANE E. BRODY
One morning, a well-meaning swimming buddy called out for all in the Y locker room to hear: “I can’t believe Jane Brody doesn’t do yoga!”
She was right: I didn’t do yoga and, not knowing what it might offer me, I was loath to try it. I also feared that the meteoric growth of yoga had outpaced the training of quality teachers able to protect my aging body...
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NYTimes: Tunisia Islamists Test Ideas Decades in... →
By ANTHONY SHADID
Published: February 17, 2012
TUNIS — The epiphany of Said Ferjani came after his poor childhood in a pious town in Tunisia, after a religious renaissance a generation ago awakened his intellect, after he plotted a coup and a torturer broke his back, and after he fled to Britain to join other Islamists seeking asylum on a passport he had borrowed from a friend.
Twenty-two...
Anonymous asked: have you posted more pictures of yourself?
“No one understood the perfume
of the dark magnolia of your womb.
Nobody knew...”
– “Gacela of Unforseen Love,” Federico Garcia Lorca
Anonymous asked: i may seem stupid but i don't know, but are you gay?
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Anonymous asked: your skin is magnificent. whats your deal?
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“What I really lack is to be clear in my mind what I am to do, not what I am to...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Letter to Peter Wilhelm Lund dated August 31, 1835
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