"An infinite God who is finite man… in short, infinity dwindled to infancy."
Edward T. Oakes, S.J."Loneliness is at the very heart of dissent. Loneliness is its character and isolation is its cost: it is one young man facing a row of tanks in Tiananmen Square. It is the pacifist Dorothy Day on a hunger strike in a Washington jail for having the tenacity to protest in behalf of women’s suffrage at the gates of the White House. It is the African American Rosa Parks refusing to get out of her seat on a public bus. It is the few who hold out against the total dissolution of the highest ideals of any institution."
Sr. Joan Chittister, O.S.B.
What you end up remembering isn’t always the same as what you have witnessed.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
Can we just cry forever?
The Office | Pilot/Finale
can’t… handle… these… emotions
(via aplacecalledwandering)
How the price of paint is set in the hearts of dying stars
Why are barns painted red? Because red paint used to be cheapest. But why is red paint cheaper than other colors? Ultimately, nuclear physics. Yonatan Zunger explains. For more on stellar nucleosynthesis, see: we are all made of star stuff.
This article was so awesome. Recommended for anyone who loves science, at all.
In the arts mecca of New York City, subway buskers are often overqualified. But they’re not usually world-class jazz singers with the lungs and charisma of old-school soul stars. Accompanied only by a pianist, Porter performs “Be Good (Lion’s Song)” on a vintage subway car in downtown Brooklyn.
This is phenomenal.
First legal drink!
Les amours qui durent
Font des amants exsangues,
Et leurs baisers trop mûrs
Nous pourrissent la langue.
Les amour passagères
Ont des futiles fièvres,
Et leur baiser trop verts
Nous écorchent les lèvres.
(Quelle: Spotify)
