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...