Febrero 2012
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Canada indigenous group sues over pollution →
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“If I could live my life anew
in the next I would try to commit more mistakes
I...”
– Jorge Luis Borges
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“You must understand the whole of life. Not just one little part of it.
That is...”
– Krishnamurti
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Things I did today
Helped cook in a restaurant
Helped run a hostel
Earned my Lunch instead of paying for it
Met my coworkers and started getting acquainted with my primary project
Got an email back about being accepted to volunteer with a secondary project
Found an apartment for 100 dollars a month
Found a place to eat dinner for $1.40
Loved life.
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I dont know which internal organ that was or from what animal… but it was good. (except for the one grey piece that looked a little sketchy so I threw it out.)
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Rooftop sunshine, windblown street scents a 60 cent pomegranate and a wet rug underfoot Warnings from strangers in a language that’s rusty Wandering through a new city, calling it home. Stuck on the roof until lunch is served, A bag full of books and a head full of ideas. I speak to myself in spanish to practice, A monologue of my intentions here. It ends: mi español es malo, este yo...
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I rode into this city on a Tans Copacabana MEM Tres Files bus (pronounced boos) The ride was 14 hours long and I brought the only white face aboard Next to me, a man with a serious commitment to sleep and no understanding of personal space. On my other side the country of Bolivia passed by, remaining mysterious, wearing the shade of the night. Between bouts of successful slumber I...
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Day One
My alarm went off at 10 AM local time. I peered off of the top bunk to find that I was the only guest in the room, accompanied by the cleaning lady. You’d think I had slept in but I hadn’t gotten in from the airport until 6AM. Along with the scraps of slumber pieced together during flights and torturous layovers, I’m not too bad off for energy. Still, waking up disoriented and alone, fully dressed...
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“A lot of people thought I was dead but, hey, you don’t write any postcards...”
– Lazlo, Where the Buffalo Roam
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officially
on my way to bolivia. gonna be an intense couple of days.. has been an intense three weeks. life life life. I’ll start using this account semi-regularly again soon with the intent of keeping it largely about my experiences in Sucre. stay tuned.
Enero 2012
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and the people you may never see again...
“We must always be a nation of haves and soon to haves.”
– Translation: We must always be a nation of the rich and those we have fooled into thinking they can be rich one day too. (via kileyrae)
I wish people would just be honest and state “Listen, this is capitalism. Most people can not be on top or else the system breaks but don’t worry soon the rest of...
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last
full day of winter quarter
go back to media free campus tomorrow
for 23 days
then to bolivia
weird. weird. weird.
Anónimo ha preguntado: i asked you about love once and i'm struggling with it, have you ever been in love?
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The Shivers make amazing music.
just notifying you all. you’re welcome.
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“Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
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HOSTELS BOOKED FOR BOLIVIA
shit’s real.
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“In fact, there are now more people in prison than there are farmers, which is to...”
– Sam Smith in Why Bother?: Getting a life in a Locked-down Land
Anónimo ha preguntado: I really (really, really) like your blog, and in the last couple of days I think I read most of it. You have inspired me to read Hesse again. And to read more in general. Well, thanks:)
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Whatever happens, I think you should know that I'm...
“Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, and don’t put up with people that...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“Sometimes we act, go in and out, do this and that, and everything is very easy,...”
– Hermann Hesse, A Child’s Heart, Klingsor’s Last Summer (via hermannhesse
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“Ironically enough, the same rebellious youths who wear Che Guevara shirts most...”
– Che Guevara: Exposing myths about a murderer
#glamour # fame
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“Live for awhile in the books you love. Learn from them what is worth learning,...”
– Rilke, Viareggio, April 5, 1903, Letters to a Young Poet
“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with...”
– Aristotle
Mexico: Indigenous people commit suicide to avoid...
mermaidcomplex:univisionnews:
The Raramuri live in Mexico’s Sierra Tarahumara, near Chihuahua city. Hundreds are said to be facing starvation. (photo: flickr Lon&Queta)
By MANUEL RUEDA
Channel: Latin American Affairs
At least 50 indigenous people are said to have committed suicide in the north of Mexico, where freezing temperatures and a long drought, have left hundreds of members of the...
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“The ignorant man is not the unlearned, but he who does not know himself, and the...”
– Krishnamurti, Education & the Significance of Life
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really should
have made a list of what I left in California so I wouldn’t be wondering if I lost shit in my room or if it’s just waiting for be back in Calistoga… ergh. If I were a travel alarm clock where would I beeee…
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You'd think
that since I’m leaving for four months tomorrow and whatnot, that I would have stopped buying books by now. Well, think again. I bought these today:
The Desiderata of Happiness by Max Ehrmann
Education and the Significance of Life by Krishnamurti
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail by Lawrence and Lee
The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Real Work, Interviews and Talks...
the goodbyes
pearlkillers:
There’s something very bittersweet yet very powerfully exhilarating about writing the final goodbye letter or making the final goodbye phone call to friends or family before you leave for a grand adventure.
On some level it’s like saying, “This is it, I’ll see you when I get back and I will still love you the same, but I’m about to go change the course of the rest of my life, as...
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“On average 324,000 new babies are born into the world every day. During that...”
– Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five (1966)
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Books I'm Bringing
These are all at least coming as far as Cali. some might get read before I leave for Bolivia and be left behind, others may have to be left behind cause once my sleeping bag is in my pack again… I’ll loose a ton of space.
Bi-Lingual texts:
Neruda and Vallejo Selected Poems
Stories and Poems by Ruben Dario
Selected Verse of Federico Garcia Lorca
English/Spanish Technical...
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“Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are...”
– Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity
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facebook stalked
My Superior/Bossman for the 3 months I’ll spend volunteering with Biblioworks in Sucre, Bolivia… Seems like a pretty legit mentor. Little does he know he’s expected to fill that role, he better not disappoint.
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Why is it that the best books are sad books?
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