1. 10 hours ago  from bookmarklet
   Parks, Green Spaces Protect Your Health

   “There is more evidence that living near parks, woods, or other green spaces may improve your mental and physical health.”

2. 1 day ago  from bookmarklet
   Methods from Madness: Baking Day and Sleepy Fairies

   I find the methods and rhythms of other single parents to be very interesting. I have always found the writer of “BlueBirdBaby” to be particularly interesting since we share very similar views on raising children and the values we’d like to impart to those we are responsible for.

   Thought I’m not sure this particular method would be one I’d choose to employ to ease a difficult child, I’m sure there are plenty of moms and dads out there who might find it interesting, either in whole, or in part, for their own daily rhythms.

   How do you keep the pace in your world? What serves as your metronome to sanity?

3. 4 days ago 
   SMS corollary: the evolution of dating and the hookup

   They “use their cellphones to disaggregate, slice up, and repackage their emotional and physical needs, servicing each with a different partner, and hoping to come out ahead.”

   “Everyone is on somebody’s back-burner, and everybody has a back-burner of their own, which they maintain with open-ended texts.”

   “Etiquette is all about obstacles and restraint. But technology, especially cellphone and texting technology, dissolves obstacles. Suitors now contact each other in an instantaneous, frictionless sphere separated from larger social institutions and commitments.”

   “Texting and the utilitarian mind-set are naturally corrosive toward poetry and imagination.”

   “Today there are fewer norms that guide in that way. Today’s technology seems to threaten the sort of recurring and stable reciprocity that is the building block of trust.”

   (via Eleiva)

4. 5 days ago  from bookmarklet
   Depression vs Despair: Kierkegaard on the Couch

   A nicely written essay on the differences between depression and despair.

   “Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.”

   “Too much of the expansive factor, of infinitude, and you have the dreamer who cannot make anything concrete. Too much of the limiting element, and you have the narrow minded individual who cannot imagine anything more serious in life than bottom lines and spread sheets.”

   “… despair is not correlated with any particular set of emotions but is instead marked by a desire to get rid of the self, or put another way, by an unwillingness to become who you fundamentally are.”

5. 1 week ago  from bookmarklet
   Gone are the days of the snooze button

   “we both laughed at the ridiculousness of it. Because as bad as it might sound, it’s just so incredibly awesome.”

   And that, for me, is pretty much parenthood.

   Dooce has nailed parenthood on the head with this one.

   There are so many things in life that, when you tell the story, they might seem pretty damn terrible to the listener. But, in reality, it’s the best thing ever. And that’s how it is.

   Said another way, parenthood is like sunrises… times a billion. There are a million annoying things that have to happen to get there and see it happen. But, once you do, it’s all worth it and you can’t imagine not doing it again and again and again.

6. 1 week ago  from bookmarklet
   HTC Working on Android 2.0 Phones

   The rumors are flying. Motorola supposedly as “the Droid” out on Verizon Wireless on November 6th. HTC also has the Droid Eris (or some variant there of) supposedly coming out on Verizon.

   I don’t care who builds the next Android 2.0 phone as long as it works on a GSM network, has a better camera, faster processor, and more RAM than the HTC Dream / G1 does. A real headphone jack would be nice too. And, if I’m making wishlists, make it lighter and keep the real keyboard. Thanks!

7. 2 weeks ago 
   "Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours."
   - Ayn Rand
8. 3 weeks ago 
   "We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of our intentions. It’s the great, deep secret of humanity that in the end none of our lives look the way we thought they would. As much as we wish to believe otherwise, most of life is a reaction to circumstances."
   - Richard Paul Evans
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10. 1 month ago 
    

    Some burner would have a blast eating bacon and sipping champage on top of this. (via JoshGard)

     
11. 1 month ago  from bookmarklet
    Wake N Bacon!

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