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I’m telling you, I know that I’m up here and you see, Lauryn Hill, you came to see Lauryn Hill. But this is the first time y’all meet me. You see what I’m saying? Don’t think you met me before, okay. And as I grow, you’re going to meet me a little bit more. You’re gonna be exposed to the real me a little bit more. I can tell you I had to reintroduce myself to everybody I know. My mother my father. Listen, y’all never knew me. I want to introduce you to me. I’m just getting to know me. And you know what, anything that’s not growin' is dead, so we better be changing. You know, people would say to me, they would hold me hostage. And they, seriously, emotionally hostage, and they’d say, Uh, she’s changing. The money’s changing her. And I’d say Listen, the money’s not changing me, God’s changing me. I’m changing, because that’s a natural part of life. We’re all supposed to change. Who wakes up and is the same way tomorrow and the day after that? Nobody is. Let the experience teach you and be real, man.

Interlude 5, Ms. Lauryn Hill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAMa0PN58i0

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2. “Soulmates” - Stress Relief, 5x13

(Top 20 Jim and Pam Moments)

After a conversation with Jim, Pam’s dad decides to pursue a separation from her mom. In this scene, Jim asks Pam if it’s his fault. When she replies yes, he looks mortified. She continues to repeat what her dad had told her Jim had said. It was the most beautiful, loving speech ever. Pam then says, “When you’re a kid, you assume your parents are soulmates. My kids are going to be right about that.”

This is probably one of my all time favourite scenes of anything ever. When my friend was trying to guess what would be number one, she suggested this one, knowing how much I just love it. It’s the way Pam still seems overwhelmed by Jim’s love for her. As anyone would be if they were loved that much. It’s the way Jim never goes very long without finding another way to show her how much he adores her. And it’s way she’s so right about her talking head.

I also think the hug that Jim and Pam share in this scene is the best ever. They are both emotional and it all seems to highlight Pam’s realisation that she will always have Jim, no matter what she is going through. I mean, look at that face - who couldn’t be comforted by a bit of Jim Halpert love?! 

Superb acting and writing throughout this scene and it’s within one of the best episodes of season 5. I love it. 

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Little native trees

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Missing the rainy day by HansonMao

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It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions… at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery: Columbus when he first saw the Western shore, Pizarro when he stared at the Pacific Ocean, Franklin when the electric spark came from the string of his kite, Galileo when he first turned his telescope to the heavens. Such moments are also granted to students in the abstract regions of thought, and high among them must be placed the morning when Descartes lay in bed and invented the method of coordinate geometry.

A. N. Whitehead, quoted in Maling (1973)

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宇宙で一番、ロマンチックな通学列車。

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My inability to promise a life with you, as your wife, does not stem from a lack of love or deep, deep commitment to you. Indeed, as you probably know, I have not felt a serious ounce for anyone but you since 1983...You pointed out to me once, during an emotional argument, that the qualities I love in you--that drew me to you--also cause me to resent you: namely your unswerving commitment to the poor, your limitless schedule and your massive compassion for others. You were right, and, as your wife, I would place my own emotional needs in the way of your important vision; a vision whose impact upon the poor (and the rest of us) can't be exaggerated...

Ophelia Dahl’s letter to Paul Farmer in Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder 

this is so heart breaking 

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But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.

 Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five (via feellng)

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Kirk Squires photo. “Enveloped.” Pouch Cove, Newfoundland. Canada. 2014

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I fell in love the way you fall asleep; slowly, and then all at once.

The Fault in Our Stars (no-body-ever)

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job application: describe your most recent leadership role

me: sometimes at crosswalks i'm the first one to start jaywalking and everyone follows me

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by M Beano

Alpine Blues, Switzerland

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The conductor must not only make his orchestra play - he must make them want to play. He must exalt them, lift them, start their adrenaline pouring, either by pleading or demanding or raging. But however he does it, he must make them love the music as he loves it. It is not so much a matter of imposing his will on them like a dictator; it is more like projecting his feelings around so that they reach the last man in the 2nd violin section. And when this happens - when everybody shares his feelings, when 100 men are sharing the same feelings, exactly, simultaneously, responding as one to each rise and fall of the music, to each point of arrival and departure, to when all that is happening then there is a human identity of feeling that has no equal elsewhere.

Leonard ‪Bernstein‬ ("Omnibus Presents: The Art of Conducting", December 4, 1955)

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네덜란드 튤립

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“The Grand Budapest, a picturesque, elaborate, and once widely celebrated establishment. I expect some of you will know it.”

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) dir. Wes Anderson

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From the article: “...these women embody all the mothers and grandmothers of Korea. These women hold within them both a fragility and incredible strength”.

They are such spectacularly beautiful, strong, and brave women. They are the breadwinners of their families. I respect them especially for redefining a woman’s role in a traditional patriarchal Korean society. 

These Korean Women Dive Deep Underwater Without Any Breathing Equipment

Women known as haenyeo have been gathering seafood in Korea for hundreds of years—submerging deep underwater without diving equipment or breathing apparatuses to do the muljil, or harvesting. Today, most haenyeo live on the island of Jeju, which is on the southern end of the Korean peninsula. Hyung S. Kim photographed these women in his series, “HaeNyeo: Women of the Sea,” which was recently on display at Manhattan’s Korean Cultural Service Gallery.

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