December 2011
stuview asked: Hi, glad to hear the dog is on it's way home. Good on you for taking the time to help out. One question, do the lost dog people not let you know the result? Stuart
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Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence.
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via psychotherapy)
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One cannot be expected to march full-bore into an interpersonal relationship...
– Phil Roland Love In The Time Of Tumblr « Thought Catalog An extremely well-written discussion of identity, internet, performance and relationships in the age of Tumblr (via wambamashleyanne)
I’ve seen Roland’s name crop up once or twice in my internet travels, and while I find it...
Everyone is alone. No one has real friends. Everyone has doubts about their...
– Henry Rollins (1987) in Pissing in the Gene Pool. (via johnvondoom)
There’s an overlapping space between memory, history and fiction. The notion...
– Alexsandar Hemon, on the notion of exile
New Yorker Festival: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Aleksandar Hemon, and Hisham Matar on the Notion of Exile : The New Yorker
(via kathleenjoy)
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What a wee little part of a person’s life his acts and his words! His real life...
– Mark Twain in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume I (via curiositycounts)
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Live your life honestly - if you don’t, you’ll always have to remember to not be...
– A lesson from Jono Bacon, author of The Art of Community (via meagan-marie)
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about-faces replied to your post: Moving house today…
As someone who just moved recently, I hope that it all goes smoothly, that you’re able to settle into your new digs without much discomfort, and that most of your stuff remains undamaged! I’d say “all,” but I’m realistic. Take care, pally!
(Belated) Thanks, John; I’m glad to say that my belongings made it through largely intact.
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November 2011
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Moving house today...
…so I won’t be around as much over the next however long. (Those of you that follow that soon-to-be-reworked comics blog of mine will be aware of this, apologies for the slight repetition.)
No grand mediations on life or high-minded quotes from me, though - it’s the close of a chapter in my life, granted, but reflecting on the past will do me no favours. (Maybe later, when...