No Electricity
About 25 percent of the world’s population, or 1.6 billion people, do not have electricity in their homes.
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Good week for . . .
Smarty pants, after Google developers announced that they were teaming up with Levi’s to make jeans with conductive fibers that could be used as touch screens, allowing users to answer the phone or send a text just by swiping their thighs.
Read moreClose To The Edge – Yes
“Close to the Edge” by the band Yes. “Down at the end, round by the corner. Close to the edge, just by a river. Seasons will pass you by. I get up, I get down. Now that it’s all over and done, now that you find, now that you’re whole.”
Read morePoem – Notes Upon Viewing (By JD DeHart)
Notes Upon Viewing The still-frame, captured eye, I do not ask permission to see. When I enter the theater, I simply view. The camera takes me where I want to go, high in the air where I have never been. Up and down the side of a skyscraper. Into the mouth of a problem. Image, sound, life, deformed, resembled, […]
Read morePatrick Hardin Quote – Friends and Enemies
“As children, we have imaginary friends. We grow up and we replace them with imaginary enemies.” – Patrick Hardin
Read moreDesmond Tutu quote – Without Forgiveness, there is no future
“Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, otherworldly activities…. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.” – Desmond Tutu
Read moreVladimir Nabokov Quote – The Comic From The Cosmic
“Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.” – Vladimir Nabokov
Read moreHold On
“Whenever you feel like giving up, remember why you held on so long in the first place.”
Read morePoem – HOW TO BREAK SNOW (By John Grey)
HOW TO BREAK SNOW – By John Grey Something foreign helps, armored vehicles adorned with unfamiliar grim-faced eagles rolling down white slopes, and explosions in the distance, close at hand – loud red, even louder black, instant thaw. No tool more expedient than soldiers pounding on a door, the path more hob-nailed print than even sheen, roof and eaves cascading […]
Read moreFran Lebowitz Quote – Only If He’s Buying
“Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.” – Fran Lebowitz
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