Diana Wynne Jones (1934-2011)

Rest in peace, Mistress of Magic. (Anybody who holds a cat like that knows old magic.) Thank you for the dreams and fantasies and… possibilities. Go to: Diana Wynne Jones Wikipedia Page Diana Wynne Jones Official Website

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Give to Japan IV

Read also: Give to Japan I Give to Japan II Give to Japan III

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Give to Japan III

So I’ve been reading this blog for a year, maybe two. Ai is Japanese. She writes about music for a living. She blogs (mostly in English) with lovely photographs of what she cooks and eats. Sometimes, she features her very adorable niece and nephew. Her parents live in Fukushima. But her niece and nephew are [...]

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Give to Japan II

If you’re in Singapore, these are the ways you can give to Japan. 1. Online sales Many online stores are donating part or even all of their proceeds to Japan. Crafters, designers, artists and photographers are contributing their work for sale. Buy from them, help Japan. 2. Singapore Red Cross If you prefer to donate [...]

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Give to Japan I

Retail billionaire Tadashi Yanai, founder and president of Uniqlo’s parent company Fast Retailing, will donate 1 billion yen ($12.2 million) of his personal fortune towards relief efforts in northeastern Japan. An additional 400 million yen ($4.9 million) will come from the company coffers… Uniqlo will also distribute coats, jeans, towels and 300,000 pairs of its [...]

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Sunburn

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away. – Elvis Presley

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东郭先生

(Picture credit) I need a farmer. Pronto.

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The gutless should be gutted

On behaviour: Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation his defense. – Samuel Johnson On hate: Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated. – George Bernard Shaw On love: A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. – Mahatma Gandhi Except, of course, the gutless is [...]

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“The guilty catch themselves.” – Proverb; “The only shame is to have none.” – Blaise Pascal, Pensées

Only man can blush. No other creature knows of shame. Why have we wandered so far away From simple honesty? – Edwin Liebfreed, The Song of the Soul If I am to ever write another PhD dissertation or a book, it will be on shame. “[F]or truth is truth to the end of reckoning.” So [...]

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To die to love again

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing. – Anaïs Nin

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