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guerilla-love:

“Called “Favela Painting,” this brightly colored village is the work of Dutch artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn. Working in a slum outside Rio, their goal is to use art “as a tool to inspire, create beauty, combat prejudice, and attract attention.”
www.favelapainting.com/home

“Called “Favela Painting,” this brightly colored village is the work of Dutch artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn. Working in a slum outside Rio, their goal is to use art “as a tool to inspire, create beauty, combat prejudice, and attract attention.”

www.favelapainting.com/home

ELOQUENCE

“There is a tremendous freedom in focusing on connectedness, love, harmony, and being fully present. This is a critical aspect of eloquence through one central focus: Dare to be fully present and connected off the platform, every day, and in every single relationship. Eloquence is a way of living, not simply a way of speaking.”

Via: MichaelHyatt.com, From:Paid to Speak (Austin, TX: Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2011), 14

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“May you be at prayer

in every stance,

and reach heaven

from the place where you are.”

-In the Sanctuary of Women, by Jan L. Richardson

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My father used to say, “Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu (via quotebites)

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Help #Joplin families by purchasing something from an Amazon Wish List

gailbhyatt:

“Help Joplin! I’ve Never Been to Joplin, But, I have sisters who live there (and don’t even know me:) …” this is the beginning of Tracey Solomon’s story and why she cares. It really moved me.

What a great idea. An Amazon Wish List for families in Joplin. I just bought some PullUps for little ones in Joplin. You can help too, and it’s so easy.

Read the story here: http://snipurl.com/27xp87 (There is a link embedded to the Amazon Wish List.)

Go straight to Amazon here: http://snipurl.com/amazonjoplinmops

May it be the end of the world as we know it.

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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being ‘in love’ which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.

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The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn’t seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late.

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% (Vanity Fair, May 2011)

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Love is …

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