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“3 Queens” - a three-minute video about three mothers.
Thank you moms.
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Your phone needs to be constantly recharged, and you do too. — Jared Lafitte
This album dropped today: “The Symphony and the Static”. From the artist, Fr. Pontifex: “The idea for “The Symphony and The Static” as a concept came to me during Christmas last year. I was going through a difficult time in my life and I had also walked with some people through some tough times and yet it was Christmas, which is always a joyful experience for me. The feelings I had inside, birthed in me the idea of the tension between hope and suffering, joy and pain, and peace and violence. One of the lines from “The Overture” sums it up, “We live in the tension of chaos and glory, chapters buried in time with so much more to the story.” My life feels like that and it’s what I observe and experience with my people. Not one of us is immune to the human drama. Each one of us experiences our own symphony and static.“ Gotta say, the tracks are kicking. Check it on iTunes or his online store.
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“How Twitter Hijacked My Mind”
A chameleon credit card, that does membership and gift cards too…all in one. Great idea. And set to ship 2014. (via davemorin)
UPDATE: Read an article that pointed out that the card is designed to stop working once it loses touch with your cell phone for a defined time under 10 minutes. While this is a security feature, it also prevents the card from being used whenever your cell phone goes dead, which is a bad thing. The company says they’re working on something, but I think that’d definitely have to be figured out for this to make sense. (Maybe Apple’s fingerprint technology?)
Are You Happy And In Love? Here’s Why That Makes You So Sad.
The sound of the waves…
…washing, washing, washing against the shores of my soul.
The longer I listen, the more I begin to hear them…
…until my heart starts to beat in unison with their poundings.
-yours truly
Christ does not die in the noble detachment of the philosopher. He dies in tears. — Joseph Ratzinger, Eschatology (via marylikesbagels)