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(via A tale of two lovers (or three, or four): the truth about polyamory | Life and style | The Guardian) Source: theguardian.com

Institutions – from national newspapers to governments and political parties – invest an enormous amount of money and effort in denying this truth. The facades they maintain are crucial to their authority, and thus to their legitimacy and continued survival. We need them to appear ultra-competent, too, because we derive much psychological security from the belief that somewhere, …

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“We live by slowing down and saying with our lives that the world will not be saved by frantic activity.” – Stanley Hauerwas, theologian, Duke University Snow Down, Slow Down – Melissa Eggleston – Content Strategist & UX Specialist Source: melissaegg.com

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austinkleon: Edward Tufte on how to have better mornings, from his next book, The Thinking Eye

Documentaries: “Dreams of a Life”, “Finding Vivian Maier”

We had an unintended, somewhat depressing, Netflix theme going recently: documentaries of forgotten women who led enigmatic lives. Given the attention they have received in recent years, it’s as if their lives only became interesting after their deaths. You can certainly read all about the stories of Joyce Vincent and Vivian Maier on Wikipedia, but …

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I have been increasingly conscious, for the last 10 years or so, of deaths among my contemporaries. My generation is on the way out, and each death I have felt as an abruption, a tearing away of part of myself. There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is …

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