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Sometimes it strikes you, sometimes you strike it.

Golden moments don’t exist. “Just do it”

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Carpe Omnia.
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The hits keep coming...

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Just a little more salt in the wound. Gotta feel the pain, then smile your way out of it. Ughh.

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Going into the Office Tomorrow?

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I have been in a funk the last couple of days. Bad news is always difficult to deal with.
/However, the perspective gained is powerful. Failure emboldens.
/It's a gut-check.
/Character builds on that. You challenge assumptions and build something better.
/ More personalized, curated and special for you, life moves on and gets better.

I hope you all can learn from someone's perspective.

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BG

Quote of the Week

"He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep."
- Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author

GULP

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Under Pressure

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Purple

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Keep your chin up.

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New Roommate(s) in just 1 week!

Check your pulse

Source: I miss Jim Henson too Kermit…

If your heart didn't move from sadness, check your pulse. You may be dead.

Or a robot.

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Totally Framing This

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Let it go. Enjoy the weekend.

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Song of the Week

Gotta love Spring!



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Stand for something & act on it

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Another reason.

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Follow this Blog!

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I've Got a Mild Fascination

"I've got a mild fascination for Collectors"

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Quote of the Week

“The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them.”

- Aristotle

My Morning Routine is Safe

When you stay up until 2am every night and function off of 4-5 hours of sleep, there a few items that are critical to prevent burnout. Coffee is definitely one of them. Other include a good mattress, a dark room, being able to "turn off" your brain (not something I can usually do), and saving a "holy day" for sleeping in.  My balance is achieved mostly through caffeine though.

There is a much heated debate on whether good coffee is for you or not. Obviously moderate consumption is an underlying assumption. Recent studies have shown that heavy consumption can reduce risk of forms of prostate and breast cancers.

MORE HERE: Drinking Lots of Coffee Linked to Reduced Risk of Certain Cancers - via Lifehacker

Caffeine is a personal savior for those days following nights when I'm burning the candle at both ends. I try to temper its addictive traits by abstaining from caffeine during certain parts of the year, usually Lent.

Whatever your drug of choice, learn about it. Then challenge yourself to change something about it.

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BG

More truth

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"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning

and goes to bed at night

and in between

does what he wants to do."

- Bob Dylan

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When Truth Resonates

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I agree

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Quote of the week

"Solitude is the school of genius." — R. W. Emerson

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BG

40 literary terms you should know

40 literary terms you should know

Published on this isn't happiness

1. Aphorism
2. Apostrophe
3. Applicability
4. Bete noire
5. Bildungsroman
6. Bowdlerize
7. Byronic hero
8. Caesura
9. Death of the author
10. Denouement
11. Didactic
12. Epigraph
13. Epistolary
14. Fin de siecle
15. Foil
16. Hamartia
17. Heresy of paraphrase
18. Hubris
19. Humours
20. In medias res
21. Intertextuality
22. Irony
23. Literary agent hypothesis
24. Magic realism
25. Malapropism
26. Meiosis
27. Meta
28. Mise en scene
29. Picaresque
30. Purple prose
31. Roman a clef
32. Scene a faire
33. Sobriquet
34. Syllogism
35. Synecdoche
36. Tranche de vie
37. Trope
38. Ubi sunt
39. Unreliable narrator
40. Verisimilitude

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This is my neighbor's apartment

Reading my daily blog-roll, and I came across this picture:

Hat tip

Literally did a double take. This is my building on 18th Street. Very impressed by the neighbor's decor.

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The duality between city and nature [video] - Holy Kaw!

Incredible ending...

Timelapse - The City Limits from Dominic on Vimeo.

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Song of the Week

I know I have been a bit scattered on QoW and throwing in random jams, but I've decided to make both staples of the blog (schedule TBD).

For now, enjoy.



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Quote of the Week

“I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”
- Mark Twain 

Ideal Setup XVII.

Reblog: Ideal Setup XVII.: "

Considering I live in NYC. This is totally possible (except for the cat).

I just saw the set up and thought "hey -- this is me. I own a bag like that."

Just sharing a smile on this great Spring day.

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Imagine

Reblog: No Gods


BG comment: found this and couldn't help but think of Argentina, John Lennon and the dualism of religion.


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