January 2012
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GOOD news →
Do you guys know about good.is? A friend of mine introduced it to me last week - a website that is all about good things happening in the news. After reading articles for too many hours, I made this my homepage. What better way to start your day than with an inspirational article, video or graphic?
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WatchI rang in the New Year at the cottage with my little family of four. It was perfect.
December 2011
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My Mom is a high school music teacher (and a great one at that). She returned home beaming late last night from her Christmas Concert, but not because the kids rocked it out on the trombones and clarinets, but because of an e-mail she later received from a proud parent. The e-mail was a very simple thank you for all the hard work she had put into the program, and the patience she had with the...
Home for the Holidays!
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Critically Informed Citizens!
A excerpt from my notes of the most memorable lecture of my University career. A passion-infused discussion on how to defend ourselves when people ask “Humanities? What are you going to do with that degree?”
Humanities as my major is what I will become. $80K, maybe not, but a well rounded dreamer? Certainly. There is a relationship between the humanities, and being a critically...
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YESS. I’m loving the Holiday Issue of RUE this year - makes me pretty excited to move into my own apartment, which (cross your fingers!) isn’t too far off!
Is it really December already?!
This is my favourite time of the year, and I’d be lying if I said that my Christmas cards aren’t already created, written, stamped and waiting to be mailed.
But goodness, is it really December already?!
(image via: Micah Lidberg)
November 2011
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Black Friday shoppers spent 11.4 billion. The UN...
sick.
in a bad way.
No shame, I’ve been listening to Christmas music since before Halloween hit. I don’t know why, but I am so excited for this year! I’ve been scouring through every website to find the perfect gifts for everyone in my family, but I keep finding things that I’d sure like to see under the tree with my name on it!
Here’s a few of my favourites:
Start Something That...
“Nonprofits are still hip, but students don’t dream about joining one, they dream...”
– NY Times, The Entrepreneurial Generation
…YES!
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I'm cheating on Ira.
So, you already listen to This American Life, but now you’re all: “Okay, I love Ira Glass so much that I want him more than once a week.” You’re at a crossroads. Do you look for love in someone else’s sultry radio voice, or do you live with the weekly hour of pleasure you already receive? A tough one, I know.
I’ll tell you what I did.
I looked around.
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October 2011
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Love, Lynne.
I write a lot of letters to people. Most of them actually never get mailed, but some do. These letters, all piled up in a box that sits on a shelf, have become an anthology of love and life. Of my love and my life. But most of them will never get mailed.
The Good Hunters - Click for good jams. →
September 2011
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We Day 2011!
I had a really amazing day yesterday.
Yesterday was We Day.
I volunteered as part of the “booths” team, and lucked out with a really awesome placement up in the Air Canada Club, which was reserved seating for.. well .. rich people. This gave them “backstage” access to a lot of our acts, which means that I got “backstage access” to a lot of our acts. I met...
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The Danger of a Single Story. →
To be able to speak with the same eloquence and humility as Chimamanda Adichie? There’s a new life goal.
“Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical...
WatchWhat photo booth has captured over the last 3 years.
HILARIOUS.
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... has posted on your wall.
I experienced a really strange moment while standing in line at the grocery store. It was yesterday, the day after my twenty-first birthday. I was telling my roommate about the details of my day, and how I received a really nice phone call from an unexpected friend to wish me a happy birthday. It made my day, truly. My one and only birthday phone call of the year.
I grew up in a house where we...
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“…….we believe we are not making a difference. But making a difference is really...”
– Barbara De Angelis (via onherway)
23 Shaker Lane
This summer, my parents became cottage owners. A beautiful vaulted ceiling place right on the water, with great swimming, fishing, sunsets and wildlife too - BEARS! MOOSE!
It was the perfect summer. The perfect timing. The perfect weather. The most perfect place in all the universe, I swear.
The lake is “tea-stained” which is why it looks brown in that first picture - but...
August 2011
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growingupindie:
fall creek boys choir//bon iver...
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BEST ROOMATE AD EVER. →
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Pine Point →
THIS IS AWESOME.
And it just so happens that this coming year, I’m going to be making something AWESOME.
So it only makes sense that I have viewed this interactive piece over 25 times in it’s entirety, studying it’s every pixel, so that my awesome something can be as awesome as this awesome something.
Enjoy!
Alan wrote a letter to his future daughter and it... →
goldenmeg:
Like Christine says, it is wonderful. (via drinkyourjuice)
July 2011
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Ramshackle Glam (Tumblr): Stackable Hand-Beaded... →
ramshackleglam:
Thanks so much to Molly for giving me the heads-up about GTLI, which works “to help indigenous people acquire the resources and skills to ensure their long term survival while maintaining their traditional cultural values.”
If you’d like to support the cause (learn more about GTLI…
“Here’s my toast: May “gay weddings” lose their adjective, and become regular old...”
– Yesterday’s edition of the New York Times’ Social Q’s column. (via fullcredit)