May 2012
13 posts
Poetry 365: Hunger Artist, Rita Signorelli-Pappas →
I believe I could have saved him. What he wanted was easy: the poured sweet wine of encouragement. A smile. In another life he might have grown a comfortable margin of flesh, he might have kept all his teeth and been spared translation into the skeleton’s cage. I would have kept an eye on…
Islamic Thinking: Put the Glass Down →
islamicthinking:
A professor began his class by holding up a glass with some water in it. He held it up for all to see and asked the students, ‘How much do you think this glass weighs?’
’50 grams!’…. ’100 grams!’…… ’125 grams’ …… the students answered.
‘I really don’t know unless I weigh it,’ said the…
“The majority of surveyed Joplin residents did not immediately go to shelter upon...”
– From the National Weather Service’s report on last year’s tornado in Joplin • Detailing how, in severe storm conditions, a big part of safeguarding communities and lives depends on people taking warnings seriously. In one instance, a Joplin resident ignored a slew of warning signals, driving from...
A(n)nals of Online Dating: Girl that's right, I am... →
annalsofonlinedating:
A note from your esteemed editor: That really long post from the most ridiculous human being alive has now been taken down twice, because he keeps reporting it to Tumblr as a copyright violation, and Tumblr is obligated to remove any reported post. But thank you, dear readers, for sending me…
