April 2011
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“Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What’s great about books is that the stuff inside doesn’t change. People say you can’t judge a book by its cover but that’s not true because it says right on the cover what’s inside. And no matter how many times you read that book the words and pictures don’t change. You can open and close books a million times and they stay the same. They look the same. They say the same words. The charts and pictures are the same colors.
Books are not like people. Books are safe.”
” — Kathryn Erskine (Mockingbird)Hemeroplanes
Yes, this is a caterpillar.The snake-like head is actually the bug’s backside,which it inflates and pretends to strike with.Like an actual snake.It is found in the rain forests or Mexico and Central America and is extremely rare.
Cool but CREEPY at the same time.
“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”
—Sarah Dessen (via kari-shma)
“What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.”
—William Glasser (via adalasialand)
“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If fire were water!
“Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As we do so, we will not only find the joy that every human being seeks — we will also find our path of authentic service in the world.”
—Parker J. Palmer
