ragingsocialist:

Never forget that this happened.

ragingsocialist:

Never forget that this happened.

(via democratsaresexier)

purpleishboots:

positivelypersistentteach:

thedailywhat:

Marriage Proposal of the Day: The planning! The dorkiness! The tears!

So imperfect it’s perfect.

[thanks, rob!]

Oh my gosh.  I don’t think I could love this more!

That is elaborate and amazing.

Fabulously perfect!

(via boredburbs)

strandedstmarkscitylights:

bookriot:

Book Fetish: Volume XXXI

Is this a thing? Because I always wanted invisibility but if this is a thing I am, in fact, already pretty damn super.

strandedstmarkscitylights:

bookriot:

Book Fetish: Volume XXXI

Is this a thing? Because I always wanted invisibility but if this is a thing I am, in fact, already pretty damn super.

Mitt Romney says America’s public schools offer a “third world education” like a private school bully who once joined his friends in assaulting a gay student and chopping off his hair would know.

gjmueller:

My mentoring group (we meet once or twice a month for fun, discussions, surveys, and topics) are seniors, so they graduate this week. All my best wishes are going to them today as I give them keys to unlock their futures.

gjmueller:

My mentoring group (we meet once or twice a month for fun, discussions, surveys, and topics) are seniors, so they graduate this week. All my best wishes are going to them today as I give them keys to unlock their futures.

I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.
David Foster Wallace’s legendary This Is Water 2005 commencement address. (via explore-blog)

(via world-shaker)

think-progress:

Things that are LOWER today than when President Obama took office: 
Spending 
Taxes
The deficit

think-progress:

Things that are LOWER today than when President Obama took office: 

  1. Spending 
  2. Taxes
  3. The deficit

(via democratsaresexier)

I hope you’re living a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (via cosasdelviento)

(via strandedstmarkscitylights)

How to Stay Organized in Middle School
Middle school students do #1 and 2, but never follow through on the rest of the steps.  Students end up with a backpack and locker stuffed to the max and can’t find anything - see #12  Good advice here.
(via How to Be Organized in Middle School: 14 steps - wikiHow)

How to Stay Organized in Middle School

Middle school students do #1 and 2, but never follow through on the rest of the steps.  Students end up with a backpack and locker stuffed to the max and can’t find anything - see #12  Good advice here.

(via How to Be Organized in Middle School: 14 steps - wikiHow)

bookmania:

Happy mother’s day to your mom! (via thekeysofalicia)

bookmania:

Happy mother’s day to your mom! (via thekeysofalicia)

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