February 2011
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“Debemos apostar a un estado multicultural y plurinacional, para vivir en unidad,...”
– Evo Morales, Presidente de Bolivia
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“Hello you long shots, you dark horse runners, hairbrush singers, dashboard...”
– Carrie Underwood, Crazy Dreams
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40 Extraordinary Things Happening Right Now
I absolutely love the blog, Marc and Angel Hack Life, but this post went above and beyond their usual, and I just had to share it.
Quite inspirational. Enjoy!
Right now is a phenomenon. Right now extraordinary things are happening.
Right now…
A soldier of sorts is diligently fighting the fight so you don’t have to.
Someone who suffered from a severe injury last year is back on their feet.
A...
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“I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I...”
– Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines
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“We’d rather pay to save a tree then give a brother something warm to eat....”
– Jimmy Needham, Miss a Thing
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Absolutely goregous. →
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Too cute. →
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My current wish list:
A retro Schwinn bike, c. 1960; baby blue, white wicker basket in the front
A sewing machine
A record player, along with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Mel Torme, and Ella Fitzgerald records
Antique luggage
Old-fashioned roller skates
Audrey Hepburn-esque sunglasses (think Breakfast at Tiffany’s)
Plaid jumper and/or skirt and Mary-Jane shoes
A bib apron, c. 1960
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A valuable lesson, a grateful heart.
Yesterday, in our attempt to come home from Orlando, FL, my family and I missed our flight. We were subsequently stuck in Orlando International Airport for the following 12 or so hours until we could catch the next plane to Chicago. We had absolutely no where to go - no rental car anymore, no hotel to stay in (we tried calling nine different hotels, and none of them had vacancy.) It was with a...
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I find it amazing that, at almost 20 years of age, Walt Disney World can still make me believe it’s true that “when you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are, your dreams come true.”
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“Therefore the Apostle Paul, speaking not of men without prudence, temperance,...”
– Saint Augustine, The City of God
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Transcending Magic
It’s a beautiful thing to be able to be in one place and hear such a multitude of languages being spoken simultaenously. Today, as I strolled around the fantastical Magic Kingdom in Disneyworld, I observed a hundred different languages and cultures (ok, maybe it wasn’t a hundred, but it was definitely over fifteen…) converge at one spot, and I had to stop and marvel at that. Our...
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“I could have danced all night! I could have danced all night, and still have...”
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“Ask me how do I feel, little me with my quiet upbringing. Well sir, all I can...”
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Eventually everyone will die and stand before the Creator. They will do one of two things: they will either fall on their knees in wretchedness and say, “My God, my God! How could I not have recognized You before this?” Or they will fall to their knees in veneration and say, “Jesus, you are all I imagined You to be and more. Serving you on Earth was the greatest joy I have ever...
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“Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss….But every...”
– Flipped
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